Win My House For £25

Don't you get your paypal account burned for putting that much money through it?

Unless you have applied for a license this is an illegal lottery and you can expect to be prosecuted for such.

HTH

tim

#It is not a lottery.....it is a competition! Check your facts before giving advice I did. If you look at the site you will see that clearly

You are not the first:

...and before that...

How much stamp duty is due on this purchase?

And you've stated a connection with this charity:

Leonard Cheshire (charity) Oakwood Acquired Brain Injury Service (Stockport)

Contact: Chris Bryan 01925 414115

1) Charities cannot participate in business, particulary dodgy-sounding businesses of this kind.

2) You business needs to be set up legally. Have you regsistered with the proper authorites? Do you need - say - to be VAT registered?

3) As Tim says, it's almost certainly illegal.

I think the best thing you can do for Chris Bryan and for yourselves is beat a very hasty retreat - or you may get him the sack and all of you a visit from the plod. OTOH hardly anyone visits uk.finance so you are probably okay so far :)

A lottery is a type of competition. And it is the type of competition this example falls under.

what change in circumstances means you need to move to a warmer climate? all your jumpers got burnt or something?

and if you sell all these 'tickets' it will be considerably more than a

136,000 house won't it !

no, seriously, this is highly illegal, you should withdraw this rubbish now before your greed gets you into too much trouble!

good luck

Funny how people with no knowledge of the law like to give advice on the legalities of a great idea. We have had everything checked by a solicitor. Charities participate in fund raising every day...that is their business.

As for our part we decided not to sit on our arses and hand over money to an estate agent for doing f*** all and be able to donate to charity. Perhaps if people spent more time getting up off their own arses instead of critisising others they might make a difference.

I've had a look at the site. It's quite disgusting that you do not refund the money if you do not sell enough tickets.

A highly dubious endeavour.

Neb

I agree, it's not a lottery because you've asked the entrants to answer a question. If ITV, Channel 5 and others can get away with it then I see no problem. Good luck to you. I'm off to somewhere warmer myself in November.

How do ITV, Channel 5 and others get away with this at the end of almost every programme they broadcast then?

See here.

Particularly Q: I would like to run a lottery. Can I? The Gambling Commission's role under the Lotteries and Amusements Act 1976, as amended, is limited to the registration and monitoring of certain lotteries promoted by societies (for example, charities or sporting associations), all schemes promoted by local authorities (Section 6), and external lottery managers.

There is no statutory definition of a lottery but the courts generally consider a lottery to be a distribution of prizes by chance where the persons taking part, or a substantial number of them, make a payment or consideration in return for obtaining their chance of a prize.

Society lotteries can only be run for charitable, sporting or cultural purposes, not for private or commercial gain. The maximum price of a ticket in a society lottery can only be up to 2. Tickets in a society lottery cannot be sold by means of a machine.

And

Q: What is a prize competition? Prize competitions are competitions in which success depends to a substantial degree on the exercise of skill. If a competition does not involve skill it may be considered a lottery and could be unlawful. Competitions requiring the exercise of skill may involve the answering of questions, solving puzzles, tie-breakers etc.

You keep the money if there are not enough tickets sold?

Ha ha, nice one.

If I remember correctly, the last people who tried this only sold about a third of the needed tickets. The raffled anyway with the winner getting half the cash. They kept the rest of the money!

Honestly, you couldn't make it up.

So lets say you make £1000 for charity. That means you'll make £40,000 for yourselves. The sick children will be so grateful.

It's the sort of thing The Sun exposes on a regular basis.

You are a f****it. The question is who should we report you to:

1) Leonard Cheshire Homes? 2) The police? 3) HMRC?

How many idiots have stumped up £25?

You probably don't know, but Leonard Cheshire led the "Dambuster" raids into wartime Germany. You could hardly have chosen a less suitable charity to rip off.

In message , Troy Steadman writes

No he didnt. It was Guy Gibson.

You bought this house for 78,000 in 2003, why is it suddenly worth 136k? The most one ever sold for in your street is 100k back in April.

Have you struck oil in the garden or something?

:/

How can you justify trying to rake in 162,500 for your 78,000 house as "charity".

You've decided to sit on your arses in the hope of others handing over money for doing f*** all.

Because some "skill" is meant to be involved in the competition and questions, our friend "Dr. Garry van Houten-Smith" is simply running a game of chance where no skill is involved, i.e. an illegal lottery.

Okay.

'In four years of fighting against the bitterest opposition he maintained a standard of outstanding personal achievement, his successful operations being the result of careful planning, brilliant execution and supreme contempt for danger - for example, on one occasion he flew his P-51 Mustang in slow figures of 8 above a target obscured by low cloud, to act as a bomb-aiming mark for his squadron. Cheshire displayed the courage and determination of an exceptional leader.'

Cheshire was, in his day, both the youngest Group Captain in the service and, following his VC, the most decorated. His notable wartime record makes his subsequent career all the more remarkable.