R Kings and other car raffles

corks finest · 03-02-2021 11:38PM

maddness wrote: »

I’ve decided that I’ve had enough with these draws. I started doing the odd one and ended up doing far too many draws. I’m just bored and liked the distraction but there has to be a limit.

Ssme boat

Mc Love · 03-02-2021 11:57PM

Wincar have a nice 171 BMW 5 series up but haven't heard much about them, and they always seem to take a while to sell out

blindside88 · 04-02-2021 12:41AM

maddness wrote: »

RKings have a Porsche Panamera Turbo up now. Beautiful car but again massive vrt bill to bring it in here.

I have a ticket for it, I see they’re now offering a cash alternative of £40,000. I would have thought it’d be worth well north of that.

California Dreamer · 04-02-2021 08:22AM

blindside88 wrote: »

I have a ticket for it, I see they’re now offering a cash alternative of £40,000. I would have thought it’d be worth well north of that.

Certainly 40k is life changing money for a lot of people and a decent chunk of change but (a) the total cost of the tickets is £70k and (b) a 2017 Panamera in that spec goes for about £67k retail on auto trader. So they ain't exactly desperate to get rid of it.

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202006089925086?radius=1500&advertising-location=at_cars&make=PORSCHE&include-delivery-option=on&aggregatedTrim=Turbo&sort=relevance&keywords=bhp&year-to=2017&postcode=bt487th&model=PANAMERA&onesearchad=New&onesearchad=Nearly%20New&onesearchad=Used&year-from=2017&page=1

markc1184 · 04-02-2021 08:54AM

If you were to win and took the £40k would there be any tax implications?

maddness · 04-02-2021 09:00AM

blindside88 wrote: »

I have a ticket for it, I see they’re now offering a cash alternative of £40,000. I would have thought it’d be worth well north of that.

40 grand is a piss take. It’s an easy 55-60 grand sale to a garage up north or if you were brave enough to vrt it it’s close to 90 grand of a car here.

California Dreamer · 04-02-2021 09:01AM

maddness wrote: »

40 grand is a piss take. It’s an easy 55-60 grand sale to a garage up north or if you were brave enough to vrt it it’s close to 90 grand of a car here.

Hence the link to a 67k car above

easygoing39 · 05-02-2021 07:55AM

That red Mazda 626 from R Kings won by a lad from Dublin.Looked ok in the flesh,but sounded very well.

rodge123 · 08-02-2021 03:09PM

WTF is with them nearly always havibg non OEM wheels on otherwise nice cars!
Maybe I’m a bit of a purest but I’d much prefer to have the originals on.
surely an m3 comes with a lovely set from factory for example....taking about the m3 they have up now on rkings.

That aside, I do hardly any of their comps nowadays they seem to offer very little cash with them to offset vrt costs.
Also reckon ya could be hit with import 10% as I’d say lot of the fancy cars are coming from mainland uk. Wouldn’t be sure if they have registered them in north.

bladespin · 08-02-2021 03:31PM

rodge123 wrote: »

That aside, I do hardly any of their comps nowadays they seem to offer very little cash with them to offset vrt costs.
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Agree with that, seems to be a lot of band new cars up now the vat on top of the VRT would put me off.

Cee-Jay-Cee · 08-02-2021 03:44PM

easygoing39 wrote: »

That red Mazda 626 from R Kings won by a lad from Dublin.Looked ok in the flesh,but sounded very well.

It wasn't a very nice looking car, nothing like the Nissans and Toyotas from that era and so took for ever to sell out compared to the R34 which sold nearly 6000 tickets in just over 2 days.

I haven't bought a ticket for any of their raffles for a while but simply couldn't not buy one for the R34. God only knows what I would have done if I had won it, you'd need a mortgage to VRT it and then trying to get insurance would be next to impossible but I still wanted to win it...but didn't.

darragh o meara · 08-02-2021 05:26PM

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

I haven't bought a ticket for any of their raffles for a while but simply couldn't not buy one for the R34. God only knows what I would have done if I had won it, you'd need a mortgage to VRT it and then trying to get insurance would be next to impossible but I still wanted to win it...but didn't.

You could do what the lads who won the yellow lambo did. Drove it for a few weeks and sell it. You’d be quids up regardless. Just don’t bust the sump on it like the lambo lads did.

iwillhtfu · 08-02-2021 05:41PM

darragh o meara wrote: »

You could do what the lads who won the yellow lambo did. Drove it for a few weeks and sell it. You’d be quids up regardless. Just don’t bust the sump on it like the lambo lads did.

I'm told that was a mechanic or his son that did that out show boating. The gold R(cough) was a better one. Engine was ejected out of the car. :eek:

California Dreamer · 11-02-2021 12:19PM

I thought they were going to be stuck with that X5 it was taking so long to shift. But they added the £40k alternative prize on to it instead.

They made £80k on it.....

Mc Love · 12-02-2021 01:39PM

Anyone use the Storm Competitions? They have a lovely GLE up there, 1 ticket is 18 GBP but there's a huge amount of tickets (4999)

Only 3314 tickets sold and draw is tonight

Northern Monkey · 13-02-2021 05:43AM

Mc Love wrote: »

Anyone use the Storm Competitions? They have a lovely GLE up there, 1 ticket is 18 GBP but there's a huge amount of tickets (4999)

Only 3314 tickets sold and draw is tonight

They are based about 10 miles from me, I was originally put off by the amount of English winners they had but since then I know of 1 person locally who won a car from them.

Mc Love · 13-02-2021 08:47PM

Yeah we'd still be stung from import and vat would in the republic?

Mc Love · 13-02-2021 09:59PM

Aska wrote: »

Nice Evo 6 on Ooosch at present too, had a white 2001 VI in the past so I purchased a ticket for her. And just incase anyone doesn't deal with them. Herself won a drone about a month ago with them. Delivered asap and all, no hassle, and yes that's the same lucky bird that won the X5 on RKings in June. I wouldn't mind only I would probably outspend her by 4:1 and she wins. In fairness I guess the stuff she usually puts a bid on is wont £5

They have an R Line double bubble now for 25 euro - well worth it

RandomViewer · 16-02-2021 01:35PM

Escort Harrier up now RS wheels no other mods ,nostalgia overload

Jamie981 · 19-02-2021 09:20PM

How is it a draw goes ahead even if tickets don't sell out? are they taking a loss and moving on I wonder

senordingdong · 19-02-2021 09:49PM

Jamie981 wrote: »

How is it a draw goes ahead even if tickets don't sell out? are they taking a loss and moving on I wonder

They don't do the draw until the tickets are all sold.

Notdeco · 19-02-2021 10:20PM

Saw a white BMW with northern reg and r Kings sticker on the back window in Bray today. Anyone here won it?

Jamie981 · 20-02-2021 03:17PM

senordingdong wrote: »

They don't do the draw until the tickets are all sold.

I often see in the description, 'Draw goes ahead regardless of sellout'

iwillhtfu · 20-02-2021 03:39PM

Jamie981 wrote: »

I often see in the description, 'Draw goes ahead regardless of sellout'

Yeah I think there was a porsche draw recently that didn't sell out, he actually commented on one of the draws they took a haircut on that draw.

senordingdong · 20-02-2021 07:24PM

iwillhtfu wrote: »

Yeah I think there was a porsche draw recently that didn't sell out, he actually commented on one of the draws they took a haircut on that draw.

I presumed it would be a sort of spoof, in that such a situation would never arise. But fair play to them for staying true to their word.

wotzgoingon · 21-02-2021 09:00PM

Imagine pulling up to the dole office in that. Double parking and them all looking at ya.

Session heads done a great ad for lucky dip competitions.

bladespin · 22-02-2021 01:07PM

wotzgoingon wrote: »

Imagine pulling up to the dole office in that. Double parking and them all looking at ya.

Session heads done a great ad for lucky dip competitions.

Any different to an 'ethnic minority' parking outside the SW office in their S class?

California Dreamer · 22-02-2021 04:23PM

This is currently up for grabs......

VW Golf 2.0 TDI R Line
Free Delivery to anywhere in the UK or Ireland
Includes £2,000 to put towards VRT, Insurance or just to treat yourself
£2.50 an entry with 6995 max entries

But back in January......it was this

2016 VW Golf 2.0 TDI R Line
£5.00 an entry with 3195 max entries

Whoever won it back in January obviously sold it back to them.

happyoutscan · 22-02-2021 04:27PM

Is the VRT not a killer for almost all of the winners?

Sorry if this has been answered umpteen times, haven't gone through the thread.

California Dreamer · 22-02-2021 04:42PM

happyoutscan wrote: »

Is the VRT not a killer for almost all of the winners?

Sorry if this has been answered umpteen times, haven't gone through the thread.

Maybe it is, then again maybe its not! :rolleyes::rolleyes:

You should go through the thread and see for yourself....thats all part of the mystery!

;)

R Kings and other car raffles

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