http://www.yournewhomeni.com/
The answer t the question is 4 per cent
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.
Just seen the boy that is selling the house, remember he was in my year at University :o
Think he is from Tyrone, maybe Cookstown
He is from Cookstown,used to play for the Fr Rocks Gaa club!
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 (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.
Well I wont be buying a ticket.....imagine having to live next door to a Tyrone man!
Under the flight path of a busy airport.... no thank you!
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).
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.
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.
Id buy a ticket surely - except in the house features it says nothing about having a doggie door.
Yer man would be sick if some family of scumbags won the house and moved in next door!
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?
You have to pay them. Wing Commander Marty is making a fortune out of the suckers on that site.
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.
Quote from: Donagh on 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.
No, if he's "making a fortune" - which I doubt very much, btw - then he's making it from the
advertisers, not the members, since other than a voluntary one-off Patron's Fee of £5.00, it's entirely free to join.
Speaking of which, how are you getting on in your attempt to join the rest of us
suckers members on the Board? I hear you have more ID's than a Nigerian E-Mail scammer, but with none of his success rate... ;)
Looks like this property raffle has been cancelled?
http://www.yournewhomeni.com/competition.php
I read that a bunch more of these house competitions were either cancelled or postponed due to the Gambling Commission and Paypal....
http://win-house.co.uk/blog/competition-updates/15-further-property-competitions-cancelled-following-the-devon-house-competition-setback.html
still, there are plenty of these around at the moment and I don't think it'll stop anytime soon given the current environment
I'd buy a ticket if I was sure it was legal and my money was safe. To be honest, I don't really understand the argument about whether the house is worth what they say it is or not - isn't the point that whatever it is worth will be more than the price of the ticket?
surely you have to set the valuation at the start of the competition so there is a reference point, as long as it is in the right ball-park for me this isn't the biggest factor in making my decision - I would be delighted to win the house even if it was worth £300K by then
any thoughts? ???