R Kings and other car raffles

sandyxxx · 03-04-2021 06:02AM

Competition between comps?

Anyone notice R-kings and McKinney are offering tit for tat comps comps lately....McKinney puts up £250k Vs RKings £150k,.....McKinney raffles an apt with RRover on Malone rd Vs RKings 3bed semi in some Nordy outpost....
....finding McKinneys marketing much better but R.kings comps more frequent,if slightly repetitive at this stage!

rodge123 · 03-04-2021 08:58AM

sandyxxx wrote: »

Competition between comps?

Anyone notice R-kings and McKinney are offering tit for tat comps comps lately....McKinney puts up £250k Vs RKings £150k,.....McKinney raffles an apt with RRover on Malone rd Vs RKings 3bed semi in some Nordy outpost....
....finding McKinneys marketing much better but R.kings comps more frequent,if slightly repetitive at this stage!

Yes and McKinney are taking massive profit margins or at least trying to to.
Latest one will rake in nearly 700k vs giving out prize worth 400-450k!
Rkings took in little less than 200k and gave prize worth 155k.

Didn’t bother with the McKinney one myself mainly for that reason, also price of ticket I suppose.

Deminiman · 03-04-2021 02:07PM

Rkings now have a house for raffle, I think many people probably seen it coming.

maddness · 03-04-2021 04:06PM

sandyxxx wrote: »

Competition between comps?

Anyone notice R-kings and McKinney are offering tit for tat comps comps lately....McKinney puts up £250k Vs RKings £150k,.....McKinney raffles an apt with RRover on Malone rd Vs RKings 3bed semi in some Nordy outpost....
....finding McKinneys marketing much better but R.kings comps more frequent,if slightly repetitive at this stage!

I find the McKinneys marketing bloody awful to be honest and their massive profit margins are also hard to take.

California Dreamer · 03-04-2021 05:39PM

maddness wrote: »

I find the McKinneys marketing bloody awful to be honest and their massive profit margins are also hard to take.

Well they are running a business! They may have larger overheads with paying for the marketing, Rory Best etc.

But look at R Kings and they will always make at least 50% on any of the top end cars.

gary550 · 03-04-2021 09:19PM

California Dreamer wrote: »

Well they are running a business! They may have larger overheads with paying for the marketing, Rory Best etc.

But look at R Kings and they will always make at least 50% on any of the top end cars.

I think people also forget their credit card processing bill must be massive for the amount of transactions they do

WacoKid · 13-05-2021 07:54AM

maddness wrote: »

A lot of cars that are €45k here are low to mid 20’s in the UK.

Correct. They offer in the ball park of the Northern Ireland price.

RandomViewer · 14-05-2021 08:55PM

The shine seems to have gone off the raffle sites, stuff not shifting anywhere like it used too

senordingdong · 15-05-2021 02:39PM

RandomViewer wrote: »

The shine seems to have gone off the raffle sites, stuff not shifting anywhere like it used too

Probably the extra levys

CianRyan · 16-05-2021 01:05AM

I've never bought into this before because honestly I don't really like gambling but I just bought a ticket for an S14 on Irish plates.
Better odds than the lotto I guess...

wotzgoingon · 16-05-2021 01:09AM

CianRyan wrote: »

I've never bought into this before because honestly I don't really like gambling but I just bought a ticket for an S14 on Irish plates.
Better odds than the lotto I guess...

If your not in you can't win. That's what I used to tell myself back when I used to do the lotto but I haven't played the lotto in about 10 years.

CianRyan · 16-05-2021 01:16AM

I play like once a year at most, I probably have as much chance of buying a clean S14 as I do having 5 mil I'm the bank. :pac:

punisher5112 · 16-05-2021 01:21AM

wotzgoingon wrote: »

If your not in you can't win. That's what I used to tell myself back when I used to do the lotto but I haven't played the lotto in about 10 years.

Shocking stuff, ya would have won last week

iwillhtfu · 16-05-2021 08:59AM

I just had a look a the site for the first time in a few months and no fancy cars etc up there although a nice cosworth.

Has it died a death altogether now? He should put up more motorbikes he'd probably move those faster with VRT being so low.

TigerTim · 16-05-2021 01:03PM

Pristine Competitions have a MK2 Escort for raffle. Been up a while & very slow to sell. This time last year it would have been gone in a day. Seems to have slowed down with those competitions ok.

T.

Normal One · 16-05-2021 02:49PM

I was about to post about “wonit” advertising a 2015 diesel Mercedes coupe for months but I see from their Facebook that they’ve ceased trading.

California Dreamer · 16-05-2021 11:14PM

RKings banging on about a poxy 2014 A3! What’s the point? Do they not think that the newer cars will sell better?

A 2015 golf with nearly 100k miles?

That 640 which was wrapped with black wheels looked like a drug dealers car

They really are dragging the bottom of the barrel

rodge123 · 16-05-2021 11:31PM

California Dreamer wrote: »

RKings banging on about a poxy 2014 A3! What’s the point? Do they not think that the newer cars will sell better?

A 2015 golf with nearly 100k miles?

That 640 which was wrapped with black wheels looked like a drug dealers car

They really are dragging the bottom of the barrel

My thoughts exactly, they have gone to the dogs with the **** heap cars they are offering.
McKinney much better cars, only problem been none of them are ever southern reg and tend to not offer any additional cash with them to help with vrt!

clogher71 · 17-05-2021 01:35PM

I read on FB last week where a guy won a Transit custom from rkings and was having a lot of trouble 'clearing' it . The van was landed to him and he was given a V5C , but no other paperwork, no ferry receipt, no customs declaration etc.

California Dreamer · 17-05-2021 01:43PM

clogher71 wrote: »

I read on FB last week where a guy won a Transit custom from rkings and was having a lot of trouble 'clearing' it . The van was landed to him and he was given a V5C , but no other paperwork, no ferry receipt, no customs declaration etc.

Why would he need a ferry receipt if it was going from NI to ROI?

iwillhtfu · 17-05-2021 01:46PM

California Dreamer wrote: »

Why would he need a ferry receipt if it was going from NI to ROI?

Might be on a English reg, I don't think it's as straight forward with customs etc if it is.

California Dreamer · 17-05-2021 01:49PM

iwillhtfu wrote: »

Might be on a English reg, I don't think it's as straight forward with customs etc if it is.

Some snowflakes out there. They just won a van/car for a small entry fee and then complain because they have to do a little bit of work to get it sorted.

clogher71 · 17-05-2021 03:01PM

California Dreamer wrote: »

Why would he need a ferry receipt if it was going from NI to ROI?

Don't know, would a receipt be needed if the van was registered to GB address .

mloc123 · 17-05-2021 03:06PM

California Dreamer wrote: »

Some snowflakes out there. They just won a van/car for a small entry fee and then complain because they have to do a little bit of work to get it sorted.

You have paid for a service, you should expect that it meets certain standards

frozenfrozen · 17-05-2021 03:29PM

revenue may look for 10% excise and VAT, and then VRT (don't know about vans but for an English car you might win in a raffle now)

California Dreamer · 17-05-2021 04:52PM

mloc123 wrote: »

You have paid for a service, you should expect that it meets certain standards

You didnt pay for a service. You entered a competition. Up to you what you do with it.

California Dreamer · 27-05-2021 07:13PM

I like what R Kings do but giving away a 9 year old 520D?!

Sure its only a £2 ticket but still, thats a bit rough!

£14k they make on a car that probably cost them about £7k, then they add on those stupid after market wheels which they seem to do with all their cars.

punisher5112 · 27-05-2021 07:23PM

Have things got that bad

corcaigh1 · 27-05-2021 08:40PM

California Dreamer wrote: »

I like what R Kings do but giving away a 9 year old 520D?!

Sure its only a £2 ticket but still, thats a bit rough!

£14k they make on a car that probably cost them about £7k, then they add on those stupid after market wheels which they seem to do with all their cars.

Still a grand car for 2 yo yo's, wheels are savage also!

punisher5112 · 27-05-2021 08:42PM

corcaigh1 wrote: »

Still a grand car for 2 yo yo's, wheels are savage also!

1 in 6995 chance

R Kings and other car raffles

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