Just found out that Climate XChange in Massachusetts is raffling off a new Tesla: http://climate-xchange.org/tesla-raffle/ - $250 per raffle ticket - drawing on December 31st.
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If you have to "purchase" to enter, that's a rather old scam like penny auctions. Basically, you offer up something you don't have and offer others to win it by purchasing "raffle" tickets. The trick is that you sell more tickets than the value of the thing offered, so once you hit that limit, you do draw a winner. You purchase the winning gift and give it to the winner.
LeftieBiker said:If you have to "purchase" to enter, that's a rather old scam like penny auctions. Basically, you offer up something you don't have and offer others to win it by purchasing "raffle" tickets. The trick is that you sell more tickets than the value of the thing offered, so once you hit that limit, you do draw a winner. You purchase the winning gift and give it to the winner.
This kind of raffle is actually pretty common. You might as well rant about those Awful "50/50" raffles all those "scam" churches and fire departments run. The organization is real, and since they pay all taxes associated with the vehicle, it's actually better than most raffles of this type. Chill.
They have to sell enough tickets to pay for the vehicle first, that's how those kind of raffles work. After they make the minimum amount, any extra tickets sold is extra profit to keep.DNAinaGoodWay said:Don't see where that quote came from, but in the legal details section of the raffle, they've eliminated the minimum ticket requirement. So, please, nobody else enter, I like the odds I have now.![]()
LeftieBiker said:I don't know why the form said #14, but I actually received #737, which is a number I like. Of course, #14 will now win...
Odds are better than any lottery.
LeftieBiker said:Odds are better than any lottery.
Yes, it looks like less than 1 in 400 that you win something, even if they sell all the tickets.
LeftieBiker said:How long is Tesla's warranty, anyway?
LeftieBiker said:How long is Tesla's warranty, anyway? I noticed that one of the options is to buy a pre-owned car from them, with no warranty. For someone with my luck, that would be called the "no-brainer." As in "the option for those with no brain." ;-)
LeftieBiker said:This is what I read on the Climate XChange site:
"Tesla also has a Certified Pre-Owned vehicle program that makes used cars available for immediate purchase. These cars are sold “as is”."