Worth buying a ticket for

redboots · November 13, 2008, 12:05:31 PM

http://www.yournewhomeni.com/

The answer t the question is 4 per cent

Bensars · November 13, 2008, 12:16:39 PM

Think you forgot to mention it costs £100 to enter.

That fact may be of more importance to the posters than the answer to the question.

full back · November 13, 2008, 12:25:03 PM

Just seen the boy that is selling the house, remember he was in my year at University

Think he is from Tyrone, maybe Cookstown

bigfrank · November 13, 2008, 12:57:11 PM

He is from Cookstown,used to play for the Fr Rocks Gaa club!

Donagh · November 13, 2008, 01:09:13 PM

Quote"Conor (31) & Kate (30), both from Cookstown, are married just over two years and spent the last 8 years living and working in Belfast. The opportunity arose in January 2007 to purchase an excellent detached 4 bedroom property and detached double garage on a generouse site, with its own private laneway, just 11 miles from Belfast City Centre. Conor is a professional property consultant and Kate works in a finance company in Belfast, and after years of City living grasped the opportunity to move to a location which is extremely peaceful, and handy commuting distance to work (approx 25 minutes in the morning).

"We were looking around for while and visited the site during the build pre-xmas 2006. We felt that it would be a beautiful house, and once completed we could live in a really nice area whilst still very close to Belfast, Lisburn and both M1 and M2 Motorways. It ticked all the boxes so we just went for it" stated Kate.

In fact they liked the area that much the couple purchased the site next to 10D where they have just completed their very own new build and plan to move into their new home once the new winner of number 10D is announced."

Dare I say that young Conor got his fingers seriously burnt buying those houses. Nice house an all but there is no way it's worth £550,000 today. Here's a property with an asking price of five and a half:
http://www.bestpropertyservices.net/properties/viewdetails.asp?ID=80. Note this one stands on it's own 6.5 acres of land, doesn't have Conor and Kate next door, and crucially hasn't a hope in hell of selling anywhere near the £550k asking price.

tbrick18 · November 13, 2008, 01:13:55 PM

Well I wont be buying a ticket.....imagine having to live next door to a Tyrone man!

ziggysego · November 13, 2008, 01:20:16 PM

Under the flight path of a busy airport.... no thank you!

SidelineKick · November 13, 2008, 01:24:17 PM

My prediction - draw gets extended for the 3 months then eventually have to give away the cash prize. 6,500 tickets is alot to sell. Especially in this climate! (economic not weather).

Zapatista · November 13, 2008, 01:26:32 PM

This is one thing Fermanagh have done before Tyrone

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/the-gambling-man-437228.html

The next big newspaper splash was in 1984, when he decided to sell his Co Westmeath mansion, Middleton House, by way of a raffle. The draw was limited to 9,000 tickets priced at £200 each, and a proportion of the sum raised was to go to the local GAA club. As far as Barney was concerned, the raffle complied with the law and all was above board.

But on the day of the draw, which RTE commentator Michael O'Hehir was to conduct, gardai surrounded the house. The winning ticket belonged to a Gloucestershire syndicate of six people, who sold the house on. After expenses, the Curleys netted a cool £1 million for the house. In July 1992, it netted only £300,000 at auction!

A few days after the raffle, Barney and Michael O'Hehir were arrested and charged. O'Hehir was cleared, but Curley was sentenced to three months in prison, the maximum term for promoting an illegal lottery. On appeal to the Circuit Court, Curley was given the benefit of the Probation Act, with no conviction recorded, provided he agreed to contribute £5,000 to a local charity. Curley happily doubled the sum.

redboots · November 13, 2008, 05:11:22 PM

Think the subject box stated worth BUYING a ticket for. Sure if you won a house for 100 quid wouldn't you be doing rightly.

Puckoon · November 13, 2008, 05:25:53 PM

Id buy a ticket surely - except in the house features it says nothing about having a doggie door.

Tony Baloney · November 13, 2008, 05:32:24 PM

Yer man would be sick if some family of scumbags won the house and moved in next door!

full back · November 27, 2008, 01:24:50 PM

I see there is a banner on owc for this draw?
Would you have to pay the owcers to get that or would it pop up on websites randomly that mention N ireland?

Donagh · November 27, 2008, 01:27:01 PM

You have to pay them. Wing Commander Marty is making a fortune out of the suckers on that site.

ziggysego · November 27, 2008, 01:28:45 PM

Quote from: full back on November 27, 2008, 01:24:50 PM
I see there is a banner on owc for this draw?
Would you have to pay the owcers to get that or would it pop up on websites randomly that mention N ireland?

Depends if this competition is advertised with Google Ads or not and assuming that OWC carried Google Ads. Even at that, websites can filter what they want advertised to their sites. From catergories to specific sites.