corner of hells wrote: » What high rolling gamblers?
NIMAN wrote: » e100 is indeed tempting to win a house. The one I entered was limited to 2500 tickets, plus there was about 8 or 10 decent other prizes too. I fancied the odds.
KevRossi wrote: » The raffle is for an apartment in London with a current value of £695,000. If you win it, you are free to live in it, rent it out or sell it on, it is yours, but you will pay any conveyance charges and any management fees as long as it is in your name. Roscommon GAA ran a similar raffle this year for a house in Ashtown, Dublin 15, value approx €425,000. Tickets were €100 and were limited to 15,000 tickets. The house was won by a guy from Mauritius living in Lucan, his name was Kumar. Money raised is for development of the Hyde Park in Roscommon and the new Dermot Earley Centre of Excellence (new training ground for Roscommon GAA). I got a ticket last year and will get one this year, as I'm a Rossie and I support the GAA. I almost never buy lottery tickets and only bet on the Grand National and the Gold Cup, so about another €100 a year on that. It is on no way a scam, if it was it would not have been won by a lad from Mauritius, and I do not believe that this year is a scam either. It's run by a group of volunteers who put the €400,000 a year former head of the FAI and their board of directors to shame.
TAFKAlawhec wrote: » True story: Back in the 00's, a couple of years before the Celtic Tiger got shot, a GAA club in Tyrone ran one such raffle to win a new semi-detached house in the local area, alongside some other smaller prizes. The winning ticket holder whom won the house was the head of the local Orange Lodge.
ROSSKI wrote: » The draw that Roscommon had last year was a massive success raising over a million euro in ticket sales, this year with the help of Sean Mulryan again they are raffling a house in London, completely legit and very clever way of raising serious money, for €100 I would take a punt and only applaud them for there innovative thinking. gowantherossies
Elias Melodic Gauze wrote: » If a recent case up in Co.Down can carry any influence or presedence in future for laws in Dublin, or elsewhere, then can't see this continuing for too long: "Pulled because the prizes exceeded the maximum level permitted under the Betting, Gaming, Lotteries and Amusements (NI) Order 1985"... I.e. If a state thinks it will loose tax-take for what is gambling activity (not really charity), with very high-end value prizes, it would be unwise for them to ignore. Of course it could be run through a proper bookie, who would operate it under legislation and cough up (a little bit) of tax along the way, and be subject to audits and so on.
dxhound2005 wrote: » The NI legislation is out of step with the rest of the UK.
dxhound2005 wrote: » I think the report may have got it wrong in saying it is because of the value of the prize. The NI legislation stipulates that all prize competitions regardless of the value of the prizes have to have a substantial amount of skill involved, not simply the luck of the draw. Clubs and other organisations get away with it for small draws if nobody complains to the police.
dxhound2005 wrote: » Nothing to do with any competition run by a club in Ireland.
Elias Melodic Gauze wrote: » The GAA ran this raffle in the North, so has some context. At very least, some regulation should be looked at for tickets of 100+a pop for prizes over 1/4m.
dxhound2005 wrote: » There is quite a list of regulations on this one.https://winnorthkildarehouse.ie/terms-conditions/
.purposes not connected with gaming, wagering or lotteries.
TuringBot47 wrote: » 2500 tickets @ €100 is €250,000 Sounds off when they had to buy a house with that money One I tried was limited to 10,000 tickets. Winner was a teacher in a primary school.
