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MrLongbeard wrote: Fri Jul 17, 2020 10:50 am Not something I usually do, except for the Gadget Show, although I think I had a couple of goes to win a house a few years back.

But sod it, my bank account is flush due to Covid so I've chucked 25 quid at a Rolex, A kTM Superduke and an Audi R8

A guy in Wakefield is raffling his house and its certainly on course to sell before the end date so I had £10 worth for the hell of it! I'm gambling with the petrol money i'm saving due to being furloughed!

https://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/life ... bz0ijU44us

Taipan wrote: Fri Jul 17, 2020 11:09 am Just bought a couple for the R1. No idea why, as i don't really want one!

I was thinking whilst watching the Lambo video you posted, what the frick would I do with that?
I reckon, drive it home, ponce around locally for a bit, show off at work a couple of times then stick it on autotrader before I bent it sounds about right..

Taipan wrote: Fri Jul 17, 2020 11:13 am A guy in Wakefield is raffling his house and its certainly on course to sell before the end date so I had £10 worth for the hell of it! I'm gambling with the petrol money i'm saving due to being furloughed!

https://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/life ... bz0ijU44us

That's a high price to pay to live in Wakefield

My bank account has never been so healthy, wife is on furlough, daughter isn't going to college, we aren't going out, I'm only filling up once every 3 weeks instead of once a week, your man Sunak isn't going to be getting his hands on it easily.

MrLongbeard wrote: Fri Jul 17, 2020 11:17 am

Taipan wrote: Fri Jul 17, 2020 11:13 am A guy in Wakefield is raffling his house and its certainly on course to sell before the end date so I had £10 worth for the hell of it! I'm gambling with the petrol money i'm saving due to being furloughed!

https://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/life ... bz0ijU44us

That's a high price to pay to live in Wakefield

My bank account has never been so healthy, wife is on furlough, daughter isn't going to college, we aren't going out, I'm only filling up once every 3 weeks instead of once a week, your man Sunak isn't going to be getting his hands on it easily.

I'd never even heard of Wakefield and if I won it, it'd be rented until the market recovered and then sold. I'd probably never even visit it, unless it was required for publicity!

If i won an expensive car I think i'd do exactly the same as you, but a very healthy cash alternative would be hard to turn down, especially if it was something like a Lambo as i'd just look like a cripple getting in and out of one!

I occasionally buy a few but only for things that I'd like such as a new watch or nice bike, don't really see the point if it's not something I actually want....

If you won a Lambo, to drive it around for a few days before you sold it, you'd need to tax and insure it!

v8-powered wrote: Fri Jul 17, 2020 12:16 pm I occasionally buy a few but only for things that I'd like such as a new watch or nice bike, don't really see the point if it's not something I actually want....

Odds and cash value. R1 is, or was, crazy odds with low ticket price, so worth a punt for a few £k return.

KungFooBob wrote: Fri Jul 17, 2020 12:52 pm If you won a Lambo, to drive it around for a few days before you sold it, you'd need to tax and insure it!

If I win, yeah right, the Audi R8 I'll need to get an MOT too, it ran out in 2017

KungFooBob wrote: Fri Jul 17, 2020 12:52 pm If you won a Lambo, to drive it around for a few days before you sold it, you'd need to tax and insure it!

I'd intended to sell it immediately and then rent one for the day as it would likely work out cheaper, then after selling it I wouldn't bother renting one as I'm not that interested. In fact if I was to gamble I'd go for cash prizes to save the hassle, because I'd spend a lot of time comparing odds to find the best payout to takings ratio I've just talked myself out of any gambling except insurance which is enough hassle in itself.

Lambo!!!

https://dreamcargiveaways.co.uk/current ... acan-7500/

One for KFB!

https://www.revcomps.com/collections/co ... v4s-214bhp

Taipan wrote: Sat Aug 01, 2020 11:19 am One for KFB!

https://www.revcomps.com/collections/co ... v4s-214bhp

I was waiting for a call last night from Absolute Radio to tell me I'd won £100k... I had planed that when asked what I was going to spend the money on, I was just going to scream PANIGALE!

My neighbours son won a pimped up skyline GTR, at about 800bhp... the jammy bastid...

Wreckless Rat wrote: Sat Aug 01, 2020 1:30 pm My neighbours son won a pimped up skyline GTR, at about 800bhp... the jammy bastid...

Win the Aventador and give him a run for his money!

That's what he won, caught on my front CCTV - so very cropped and not the best image. Ho hum

Not bad for the £9.95 I think the ticket cost.

Another Lambo. £290k new!

https://www.nitrouscompetitions.com/liv ... eo-v0GV96M

I was trying to work out how these compare to the lottery....

That Lambo has 1/20,000 odds of winning (give or take) and it costs £10 to enter (give or take, again). Despite the "£290k new" banner it's actually more like £150k to buy one from a dealer so for simplicity's sake say it's £100k for an easy sell.

Thus you have 1/20,000 odds of winning £100k for a 10 quid ticket. From what I can see on the national lottery a £100k scratchcard has about 1/5,000,0000 chance of winning for a 1 quid ticket. If you bought 10 (to match the £10 it costs to enter the Lambo draw) it'd be 1/500,000 chance of winning in theory.

So the Lambo comp seems like a bargain?

Well yes, but you win a £150k car not £20,000,000

For me it makes more sense though yes.

weeksy wrote: Thu Aug 06, 2020 7:50 pm Well yes, but you win a £150k car not £20,000,000

For me it makes more sense though yes.

I was talking about vs. winning a hundred grand on the lottery. Even with the higher odds of winning the lower prizes on the lottery these car giveaways are a much better deal.

Works both ways too, if they sell all 20,000 tickets at a tenner a pop they'll make £200k - to give away a car which probably cost them ~£125-150k.

P.S. that particular Lambo has also had a load of bits 'hydro dipped' in fake carbon fibre. Classy.

I'm going to hijack this thread.

I'm going to post every motorcycle related free to enter competition I come across.

If everyone else does the same, then one of us might actually win something.

So to start off...

https://www.bennetts.co.uk/bikesocial/a ... ompetition