Posted by Tonytaxi1970 on August 22, 2025, 12:04 pm
Be very careful using this Charity based monthly 'house raffle' website. The Company that has D list celebs on their advert on the telly, like Romesh Ranganaithan (sp), filmed with all kinds of bells and whistles.
I fell for their advert, when pissed one evening a few Saturday's ago. I entered the last draw, for a huge house in Cheshire.
I received an email, saying I had won a small prize in the Millionaire raffle of some sort. In their email, they urged me to hurry to redeem my prize, before it expires?
It turned out I had won a £15 subscription voucher, not cash money you can actually "redeem". You don't know this at the time of reading the "you've won" email.
The voucher gives you one hundred free entries into next months draw for a huge house in Cornwall, and entry to the £1m draw. So I entered the website to claim my exciting 'prize'.
After a somewhat confused read of the 'prize' itself, had I pressed 'continue', and accepted the terms of the offer, and put the voucher towards the next house draw, I am then tied to a £15 per month subscription, to enter draws for houses up and down the Country.
I don't need another £180.00 a year coming out of my bank account by direct debit right now. To say the Omaze website is 'confusing' is putting it very very mildly. It has you going round in circles, and re-directing you at times (which I am always 'put off' by).
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i wonder how many non computer savvy people in this country are now tied to a £15 per month subscription to this "charity" based company? who's website, to me, appears to be deliberately difficult to navigate and tovunderstand some of the terminology used.
Admittedly, I'm no expert about websites and computers, or the Internet as a whole, but I compared it to the "National lottery" website, which is clear and easy to make your way around, with no smoke no mirrors.
Anyway,just be careful.
Re: Omaze.
Posted by ThommosSocks on August 22, 2025, 12:41 pm, in reply to "Omaze."
Apparently the "charity" of that the play on heavily in the adverts it a very small percentage of what they actually gross.
They actually take something like 50% of ticket sales as profit, then they have to pay for the property and all the other prizes, advertising and admin cost very little actually goes to the charity. Thommossocks is innocent
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Posted by Chinaski on August 22, 2025, 12:43 pm, in reply to "Re: Omaze."
Like literally every charity going- it all goes on "admin"
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Posted by Meff Stelling on August 22, 2025, 12:21 pm, in reply to "Omaze."
I always wonder how many of the winners actually go on to live in the houses they win.
They must cost a fortune to run.
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Posted by Spart on August 22, 2025, 1:29 pm, in reply to "Re: Omaze."
I reckon this is all part of the 'scam'. Pay x amount to build a house all funded by subscriptions and then put into it someone who clearly can't afford to live there.
Give them a few months and then go back to the now desperate winner with an offer well below the actual value of the property to buy it back off them.
Hey presto, your shareholders all get to invest on high value assets, that were all bought at way below their market value and you even get to put a bit of money towards charity to make you look good too.
Re: Omaze.
Posted by Tonytaxi1970 on August 22, 2025, 12:52 pm, in reply to "Re: Omaze."
You would just flog it wouldn't you?
However, I heard that if you win a £4m house, Omaze offer a cash 'alternative' of about half it's true value.
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Posted by Madjens on August 22, 2025, 12:53 pm, in reply to "Re: Omaze."
the houses are always in remote locations too, and difficult to sell.
hence they buy at a low price and raffle it off trying to make more etc@Cesc_Pistol
Re: Omaze.
Posted by Sarflondonblue on August 22, 2025, 12:58 pm, in reply to "Re: Omaze."
I dont know about the other stuff in this thread but they had one the other month that was right by borough market in London. By any imagination its not a remote location.
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Posted by Madjens on August 22, 2025, 1:10 pm, in reply to "Re: Omaze."
yeah i think that was a strange one.
£4mil house by borough market.@Cesc_Pistol
Re: Omaze.
Posted by Tonytaxi1970 on August 22, 2025, 8:50 pm, in reply to "Re: Omaze."
'Borough market' was the name of one of the restraunts on a cruise ship I was on last year.
Mundane...
Re: Omaze.
Posted by Tonytaxi1970 on August 22, 2025, 12:57 pm, in reply to "Re: Omaze."
The one in Cheshire was gorgeous. But i wouldn't want to live in it.
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Posted by Billybookcase on August 22, 2025, 1:26 pm, in reply to "Re: Omaze."
The one in Cornwall was a bit Meh, with a public footpath running across the bottom of your front garden. No way was it worth £4m., about £3m was for the view which was admittedly stunning. But anywhere else the house would be about £1m.
Re: Omaze.
Posted by Yogi_Clementine on August 22, 2025, 1:39 pm, in reply to "Re: Omaze."
You're new to this house valuation lark aren't you?Formerly yogiclementine
on August 22, 2025, 12:04 pm