I won a beautiful 2000 Honda Civic with B series engine swap and tonnes of modifications from The Car Competition in the uk. Totally legit. If it weren’t I think they would be shut down by now.
In third grade, I won a glow in the dark ruler. I didn't have to pay any taxes or compromise my personal info. All I had to do was buy $189 worth of books.
Friend "won" a car at MLB Reds game when her seat number was called. Turned out to be a 1 year lease despite all ads and announcements saying "win a car" After considering taxes, insurance, the extremely low number of allowable miles and needing another car in 12 months when the lease ended, she turned it down. Also there was no cash equivalent prize.
That's why I always read the terms and conditions. I won an unlocked phone and then they tried to state that for me to claim my prize that I had to sign up to a particular carrier. I literally pulled out the conditions of this lottery and asked them to point out where it stated this. They eventually folded and let me claim it.
I actually won one of these giveaways a little over a year ago for a different company/charity not shown in this video. The giveaway was totally legit, though I did have to pay the taxes on the car when I filed my taxes, etc. Crazy enough though, the place I won it from was shut down 4 months after I won it because the CEO had his hands in the cookie jar a bit too frequently, and the Feds busted him. Dude was siphoning money from the charity's bank accounts for his own personal gain.
If an individual entry is what becomes the winner then the multipliers make it that much harder to win. If I see 2x entries only I’ll consider it, but 20c entries is an instant no from me.
Non purchase entries don't get multipliers, that's how they make sure only purchasers win or at least 99.9999999% odds of a purchaser winning. It's just a way to get around the no purchase necessary rule.
Call me an idiot I know.. but I had a lot of free time at my last job on night shift so I mailed 400 entries to Taylor Rays Fummins truck giveaway because I really wanted that truck. Each handwritten notecard was worth 10 entries, so I had 4000 entries. And I carefully read all the terms and conditions. Guess what, I didn’t win. His channel had around 300k subs and it was a truck so I figured I had pretty good odds. I guarantee you the legal company did not hand count any of my entries and threw them all in the trash
props bro that shit take determination still😂 i always thought abt doing that but id get lazy n feed into the scam n buy a shirt hoping they’d hold more value then the postcards, never worked, for me at least 🤣
These giveaways say you can mail your entries (because legally giveaways like these have to accept them), but they only really want people buying merchandise to get entered. It's all too easy to just say your mail-in entry was lost or didn't arrive in time. It's not really a "giveaway" when they are still making a profit.
I'm with you, I think they throw them out. I'm a small business owner. Our first year open, we ran a contest that was similar to these. It was based on appointments or gift cards. However, we, too, had to follow the law and offer a free option. We weren't as intense with ours. We just required you to mail something with your name and information on it. We even waited 5 days after it ended, so all mail in entries could be counted. Funny enough, we only had 1 person do the mail in. We made sure to put it in, and she actually won 2nd place. We used the same random drawing picker most of these use. That convinced me they aren't doing things right. I personally have entered a lot of these over the years. 1 contest I racked up over 750,000 entries, all free, i had to watch videos and click links and stuff. I was in college and would do it during lectures or in my free time. It took me weeks, spending hours a day doing it. They had 4 prizes they were giving away. Magically, I didn't win anything.
Your odds were still extremely low. The mail in entry addresses are always the third party company running the sweepstakes. I can assure you that if they receive the entry it is indeed entered. It is a huge felony to run illegal lotteries and ignoring free entries, plus these are third party companies which have no tie to the company selling entries. I wouldn’t call it a waste of time. It’s a “free” way to have a small chance of winning and not wasting the money. I’ve even sent a few mail in’s for some of these during my lunch breaks as well regardless of the odds lol.
@@CD-kx1ef in fine print it says you cannot challenge (legal action) the company if you didn’t win. That right there tells me my mail in entries weren’t counted if there is no consequence
Is it disgusting? They are making hands over fist. It’s the idiots gambling that are suckers. Casinos do the same shit. These dudes know how to play it
There was a channel that was “giving away” cars like this with entries. I did some investigating years ago and a lot of the winners were actually their friends or family that won. They stole money from people buying lying to people
When cybertruck came out nitro circus gave away one like week-long give away where you had to watch shows to get entries then day of give away some old lady won that was related to the guy on the team doing the giveaway 😂
I won a vehicle through a Nascar/Toyota giveaway a few years ago and even a check for the sales taxes along with a ton of other really cool stuff. I did have to claim all of that as taxable income on the following years taxes. Overall, a $40k vehicle, a VIP trip, 3k in goodies, and a $7500 check for around $10k total wasn't a bad deal at all. I kept it for many many years and didn't have a single problem with until I wanted my dream manufacturer vehicle, and had nothing but equity towards my new purchase. So it was the gift that just kept giving in my opinion.
Not really if you decide you happen to like a piece of clothing or merch and you buy that just for itself and it just happens to come with some entries for a car giveaway that's just a bonus.
@@Jxsey I'm not saying it isn't what is to call it Gambling is a bit of a stretch if you're receiving merch that would be the same price for your merch anyways
@@Jxsey no it isn't for example eighty 80 how the hat I liked so I bought one and it came with some raffle points for the car. How am I gambling When I paid for a product and I got.
There's a group here in Australia called 'Keep it Reet' that are currently raffling a worked R32 GTR. They claim the raffle is capped at 3500 entries. And they have a deal where you can buy 600 entries for $250. Doesn't this mean you could theoretically 'buy out' the raffle for $1500 (6x - $250 for 3600 entries) and take the car?
3,500 x $250 = $875,000. Assuming they don't have a limit on how many entries one person can a buy, you'd be paying around a million dollars after taxes. Just a tad bit of difference from your $1,500 figure.
I thought the same thing, however the key word here is ENTRIES vs ENTRANTS. The 3500 cap is for entrants, and a single entrant can buy multiple entries. $3500 x $250 = $875,000 is the correct math, if we went based on the cap being entries rather than entrants it becomes (600 / $250) x 3500 = $8,400.... or go by their base of $20 each it becomes $20 x 3500 = $70,000... Why would any company give a way a car worth over $100k for that little money, not even profiting?
Back in I think 1999, when I was working at the mall, a local radio station (WPST) was giving away a car they stuck in the food court. The contest was they had to "Live in it to win it!", for 30 days. Good times lol. One guy lost his job 2 weeks in, a young woman got dumped and the old lady had to leave early.
Yes of course they are. They’re just legal. They’re just getting you to buy worthless crap. How do you think ol Dave Sparks “Heavy D” from Diesel Power (DP) was able to own a friggin UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter and buy so much of his vehicles, trucks, massive property and house. Yall bought him all that lunacy that you’ll never own. They preyed on your desires and/or needs ENRFORCE, 80Eighty, Own Boss Supply Company, Speed Society, Enthuszst…
If you think Heavy D owns a lot of stuff, you haven't seen the stuff Cleetus McFarland owns. Probably the only guy on RUclips to own a legit FAA recognized airport. And there can't be too many people out there who own a private race track either.
When Dave Sparks was booted off TV and came to RUclips he said he was going to do a huge giveaway for subs to his channel to get a bunch of subs. He set up milestones to reach for each giveaway and only done one of those giveaways so far, yet he is 4 millions subs and should have had like 10 giveaways. Besides all his other merch giveaways, which I also think are scams.
I have done plenty of the give a ways...but I dont charge anything for them, all you have to do is be a viewer....but to be fair, I am not giving cars lol 😂
Anytime a RUclipsr tells you that "if you buy some merch today you'll get 1000x entries!!" It feels so scammy like they are just flat out lying to you.
because it is, those multipliers mean jack since everyone else was waiting for it to. Atp just don't mention any multipliers and leave it be normally. They just do it to hype it up and gain peoples attention. I feel bad for people who enter before the multipliers, skipping out on tons of entries.
They are scams they always say today is the last day or the final hours and then I get another email every day for the next week about the same exact thing that today is a final day the final hours of the giveaway. It’s all a scam.
The worst part about the "no purchase necessary" rules for these sweepstakes is 2 parts 1. They state that they are not required to give you a notice they ever even received your no purchase entry 2. They also put in the T&C that if the flash card is not formatted PERFECTLY to the specifications they laid out (address top left, name center, a spiel on the back about how this would change your life) they can reject your entry Theyve basically worded it to the point that ANY no-purchase entries can go right in the garbage and they can claim "it wasnt done correctly to the t&c" if theyre ever challenged in court
@@idokwatcher2062 can’t say it’s a scam if the car actually exists and you have a chance of winning it. As long as people want free things, car, giveaways, or raffles will never die. At least most of them cleaned up their act and you’re not stuck paying the tax bill and at least you get some merch that you actually like.
@limbeboy7 Used to be a popular contest around here when radio stations and malls were still huge with people. News would go there and see how many people were still hanging onto car. Was funny to see the position people would pick and then how that worked out hours and sometimes days later. Think they allowed rest room breaks but otherwise had to keep holding car or be eliminated.
When I was about 14 I got a job as a telemarketer in the Seattle area, and our "leads" came in every morning.. it was a big cardboard box that said "win a car" straight from the mall, they would dump all the entries on the table and tell us to start dialing. Half of them ended up lost or in the trash after that. I don't know if a car was ever even actually given away at all. This was around 1999
An ISP I used to work for when they were in the Long Distance phone business did car giveaways in the mall, which they did give a car away but you were signing up to make them your Long Distance phone provider when they asked for your home phone number (this was before the cellphone boom).
More than a few years ago, I was one of 20 qualifiers for the chance to win a car from “Goodguys” (1 from each of their giant car shows they put on all over the US) they gave me a check to pay for travel from Iowa to Columbus OH for the giveaway - us 20 people got to pick a key out of a bowl of keys - when I picked my key there were 4 left in the bowl & the guy who won picked his right after I did 🤦🏼♂️ - Had I won, I would have had the value of the car- (a Chip Foose-ified 69 Camaro w / a 572 GM crate motor and a 6-speed) added to what I owed as income tax on that next year. They said they had insurance on it for the drive home or they would deliver it to your house. Had I won, I would have driven it a couple times and then sent it to Barret-Jackson or Mecum before the tax was due… didn’t win so oh well! At least I got to meet Chip Foose! 😎
Many years ago I attended an event for timeshare vacations, I was told that just for attending the event I was automatically gonna be given a free 3 day vacation at any of their resorts. Long story short the whole thing turned into an exercise of them trying to sell me random stuff, and me playing along while being careful not fall into the trap. They did end up reluctantly giving me my free vacation at the end of the day, which I never actually took because it was never about the free prize for me.
Used to work in a Vegas casino and they started doing car give away, and almost all of the winners took the cash prize instead. One lady who won rode the bus everywhere no way she had the cash on hand to pay the taxes. I few of the classic cars they gave away did get kept instead of the cash which makes sense since there is no deprecation on them and a good investment.
Right. Who's to say the 'charity' is legit? Does anyone think the govt. is sending hundreds of agents, nationwide, to catch these scammers? No way, Josay.
@@Intransversable They have to drag them out longer, because each one seemingly is higher and higher value. Higher value = they have to have them open for longer to sell more merch to cover the costs. If they went back to doing 200k cars, we'd have a giveaway every month or so. But with this current Porsche giveaway, which I think is like 460k or something ridiculous, it's basically a 2.5 month long giveaway.
I’ve debated that, as long as you sell the car fairly quickly seeing how the raffle for the Porsche ends in December. Be nice to cruise around for a year then sell it
My mom's boyfriend actually won a car at a mall. The only catch was he has to pay his own insurance and gas . He ended up crashing it due to him not caring for maintenance. Goes to show you what is earned is usually the better route. He ended up with a wayyyy uglier car but this car he took care of.
Tuner Cult seems to have regular winners, but it always seems to be the " Final Day" to enter for like a week. Then they add a car, for a chance to win Two cars, then the additional car is up by itself for a while, That's what bothers me about these giveaways. They are not upfront about the process. Haven't seen anyone win both cars. We need more Transparency.
I entered a restomods giveaway in June of this year. And I didn't win, in the midst of my excitement, with the possibility of winning a 68 Charger, I started to dig around the terms & agreements. As the video mentioned, they didn't shed any light as to how the taxes would be handled, and as someone living in Canada, the mathematical test through me for a loop. Alas, I never got to explore what it would be like to go through the process, and possibly grab the keys to my Charger. And I entered with the premise, "A Canadian hasn't won in quite sometime, now is the time, the law of averages is in my favour." Suffice to say, giveaway is great for marketing, raffles are what they are actually hosting.
To be honest it is easier for Canadians to report winning prizes. In most cases it isn't taxed unless the prize/draw is related to your employer. This applies to lotteries as well which is awesome.
Here’s how the scam works. Legally you can’t be forced to make a purchase to win. That’s why all the time you hear no purchase necessary. On their website in the fine print in a far dark corner of the website it will say no purchase necessary to win. You can mail in as many entries as you want. They mark up their merch, and then they make a fake profile and say that’s the person who won. Likely the car was rented just for the videos. Keep an eye on the page or the profile in a year it will be deleted.
I want to know 2 things about these car giveaways one.How much money are they making off these things? 2. How much of taxes are going to be for the Porsche GT3RS
Deadass only bought something I thought was any bit valuable to myself for giveaways. Just spent 1.5k into Z1 motorsports because of the Black Friday sale. It was just a good sale to buy parts to go to the race track. Now I also have giveaway entries. Kinda a “kill two birds with one stone” situation.
I worked for a company, and one day I came into the office and the owner, my boss had on all this 1320 merch. He told me about how he was probably going to win this fox body cause he spent like 1,000$ on merch (he had a fox body that was all tore up).. He didn’t win. And I quit shortly after. It was such a red flag to me. I can’t understand why people would believe this and not understand how much money these dudes are pocketing.
100k prize / 30 dollar shirt means they need 3,300 entries to get their money back which is EASY. These give aways are just a tax write off anyway. So in the end these prizes make the organizers a shit ton of a money and drive huge traffic. It's kind of a win/win.
I used to enter these. Even a local guy from my neighborhood started doing it. It's a waste of money. HUNDREDS and THOUSANDS of people enter these. And only ONE person is selected. Not only that, the amount of money these companies make off on one raffle! I'm better off investing that money into something else.
Here in Australia the scam behind them is that the give away is run via a raffle. Then it is always, legally speaking, a promotion for a business (even if the business is giving away cars) so it becomes tax free and doesn't require a lottery license. So the companies will sell tons more tickets then the car is worth, and pocket all the profits totally tax free.
Almost 20 years ago, I won a Scion XB and this is totally accurate on how much it costs to take ownership. Sales tax and federal and state income taxes were many thousands of dollars. It was a $15k car and it cost me more than a third of that to "win" it. I'm not complaining. I ultimately sold it with 40 miles on it and walked away with 8k in cash but yikes!
You will see the timer countdown to the last hour, then suddenly the timer resets for another 7 days and add another impossible to win car. I caught on to their B.S.
I remember 80…erm… a certain company used to color the text of the “No Purchase Necessary” option to match the website background so it was practically impossible to see unless your cursor changed when you hovered over it.
Cleetus is about the only one i tryst. Ive seen giveaways go to friend's instead of winners.Social media makes it easy to spot the giveaway scammers which at least 80% are
Can you check the HodgeTwins monthly giveaways with a car and cash? It's almost too good to be true but they do count thousands of entries per person for purchasing stuff and maximum entry per person is 3,000 which means you can have millions upon millions of entries.
I actually won two sweepstakes within a few months of each other. One was a Cheez It text to win or instant win online(which is how I won) for a Ford Escape Hybrid. I took 25k since I planned on selling it and paid 5k in taxes(just used prize money). The other prize was for a used International Semi Truck from one of their 17 dealerships. Had to have over 300k mileage and an International Diesel engine NOT a Cummins Diesel which was a better engine. It had a sleeper cab and a 100k warranty BUT the stealership was valuing the prize a 85k(a lot of taxes!). I asked if they could cut me a check like Cheez It did…Nope! How about buying the truck back from me on paper after accepting prize and only having to give me 60-65k…Nope! I ended up turning down the prize because after checking out the values of a semi truck in that condition(no where near worth 85k!) it seemed that the stealership was just overvaluing the prize to write it off on taxes for a vehicle that they couldn’t sell to begin with! I would’ve had to pay 17,000 in taxes on an overinflated prize that I wouldn’t have been able to sell or trade in for anywhere near the stealership’s estimated prize value. Having said all of that…I still enter one entry only contests from GM,Ford etc. because I have the same odds as everyone else! According to my tax guy you can’t write off sweepstakes tickets even for charities because there’s a prize involved. I will throw my name in the hat for a car/truck that I like by buying a t-shirt etc.(100X entries etc.) because I’ll at least get something tangible in return. Money allowing I’ll also donate money to Omaze etc. for a chance at whatever prize they’re offering. It’s a shot in the dark that I’d have zero chance otherwise by not entering and at least it goes to a good cause! Bottom line…choose your battles/charities and someday you might get that call. There are also the free HGTV Home Sweepstakes that just require email,name,address but can be worth up to 2 million etc. with a cash payout option(lower amount)as well. So…what’s not to like?!😁👍
I understand the car being considered "income" and subject to income taxes, but no way should it be subject to sales tax. That's on whoever bought it to give it away.
In Indonesia, the tax for prizes and giveaways could reach from 15 to 25% depending on the prize type. Even if it's an award from winning a match, race, or game, the winners would also get charged by that prize tax law 😢
Dream Giveaway is a donation website for charities. And you can enter without making donation on the website. I did it with the all black Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing and Escalade V giveaway. Its just not tax deductible like the monetary contribution. And a cash prize is offered with new but its for covering the taxes and registration on the cars only. Dream sometimes cover the flight and hotel stay.
In the U.K. we have car raffles. However on most you have to answer an easy question to make it skill based. The best are the ones are the fixed odds (maximum amount of tickets declared) where you know your odds. The worst is BOTB which is multiple cars that look like there all going to be won but they are really all in one draw. I won my dream car, an V8 F type Jag, in a fixed odds draw.
I believe rules in the uk state that for any raffle all tickets drawn must be sold so someone is guaranteed to win. It is gambling, it’s not a scam but you might not always know the odds on winning.
Same here but i didn’t win yet. 😅 I like dream car giveaways, i was at 1 digit distance to win an RS6 or 75.000£. Of course it’s a lottery, in order to give a car they sell 125% of the car value in thickets. This it’s how businesses operate. However, feels better to spend 5-6£ each week on couple of thickets instead of something else.
I used to enter these. Even a local guy from my neighborhood started doing it. It's a waste of money. HUNDREDS and THOUSANDS of people enter these. And only ONE person is selected. Not only that, the amount of money these companies!
*_ALL_* giveaways are a scam. [Full Stop] The "giveaway" is your personal information - what you receive in return is silence and stress because you thought you could get something for free. Now your privacy has been destroyed and your data has been disseminated across the web. Good job. [Slow clap] _"Nothing in life is free. You always pay in the end."_ *~Wayne Static* Stay classy my friends.
I remember being kinda meh about Regular Car Reviews doing giveways but then he had a side channel video explaining how it happened and then it hit me, like hey this is grey area gambling, that's a bit scummy
Ah, good old RCR, his subscribers essentially supported his "I found all of this on Wkikipedia!" channel while he learned about cars, sort of like fans paying Taylor Swift to learn how to sing...after she began her career.
Yeah, some of the merch is cool enough to own, I like the 80eighty shirt “save the manuals”. It’s worth buying the shirt and know that you won’t win a car - there are some legit giveaways/raffles like Cletus McFarland, hodgetwins, vicegrip garage, etc. they always dedicate a video to the pickup process.
In Canada we may have to do math even for the cereal box prizes, but we don't pay income tax on lotteries, raffles, casino winnings, non-employment-related gifts, etc.
4:30 Just to clear some stuff up. 80eighty pays for the winners flights out to Utah and pays for lodging while you're there. You don't need a vacation home to win because hotels exist. They also pay to ship the car to your house after you go to their shop and claim the prize.
Prizes are taxed differently than purchases, so the winner prob has to either pay a huge tax or say no to taking posession. Im sure 80 eighty rarely has winners actually follow through
@@ilikebudlite We've never had a winner decline taking the car! Every car comes with cash to help offset the taxes. The winner also has the choice to sell the car. Take 30 seconds out of your day and go to the website and you can see all the past winners, every single one of them took the car not a single one declined. I highly suggest you do that before you start talking about something you have no clue about.
@@Levixwelchyou represent your company and you want to tell the public what to think?! Read my reply carefully and tell me where i said what you made up in your head. I hope the world sees how unprofessional you are
@@ilikebudlite You said "I'm sure 80eighty rarely has winners actually follow through" which is completely false and to which my response was made. I'm not unprofessional just because you're wrong. I also never told anyone how they should think. I only stated facts and suggested doing research yourself. In no way shape or form did I tell anyone how or what to think.
I use Tuner Cult every once in a while, but I never consider winning. If it weren't for bad luck I'd have none at all. I just like their merch quality, and see the entries as a bonus.
tuner cult used to be just a t shirt company under a different name. I cant remember the name of the original company because it was many years back, but they did all these random sales, one of which I bought a bunch of shirts from. I never received what I purchased only to see they closed the "business" and reopened as tuner cult (I double checked the registered business address and owners name which matched at the time). I got ghosted, no responses to any attempt at reaching out and blocked by them on social media when I made my claims public. Also obviously no refund
The handwritten, free entry is often phrased is confusing ways. Ive never entered, but i read the rules ones and emailed them to clarify what they wanted to be written on the entry. I received no response, so I avoid these raffles. People do win, but the free entries are intentionally phrased so that they can discard your entry if it doesn't conform to the most stringent rules.
I won a 2008 Lincoln MKZ. It was not free after title/documentation fees and taxes but I wouldnt call it a scam because in the end it only cost a little over $500.
Prize money in UK is tax free, so with cars there's always a tax free cash alternative. Normally the car is worth more if you sell it but then there's insurance and road tax and all that.
I entered one a couple of years ago. My advice is if you entered using any credit /debt card make certain you cancel it. If you don't the contest will end but they will still charge your card!!!
80Eighty said each post card is worth 5 entries. Spent a whole day, wrote out 100 postcards. Obviously still lost because fine print states "proof of sending does not equal proof of receiving".
Here in Australia its common to see charity groups giving away a car in a raffle at a stand in a shopping center while raising money for whatever charity it is. Is that much of a thing over there?
That happens. You are donating to the charity and can write that donation off on your taxes so lots of rich people use it. If they win, they can sell the car if they don’t want it.
Not how tax brackets work. If the prize put you into a higher bracket you would only pay the higher rate on the amounts in the higher bracket. Unless you were $1 under the lower bracket then the entire car would be taxed higher.
Wait so if you hand write a letter entry, wouldn't they legally be required to include your entry with the digital entries? What prevents them from just disregarding physical entries from digital? How would you even know if they did or didn't?
The RUclips channel The Ace Family had several car giveaways yet we never saw anyone who won the car. Rumors were that they rented the cars to show on their videos to get people to spend money on their raffle that no one was going to win from the start.
12:39 Denver airport had the same thing, they had a pearl white 1198(99?) Ducati Panigale, sign up by filling out the post card. Months/years later someone from a timeshare company calls saying they got your information from a vehicle raffle, etc etc.
I think I signed up for the same Ducati giveaway! This would have been back in spring of 2014. The "consolation prize" was a night stay at a low-budget hotel in Breckenridge in the fall (so not even ski season), and we had to sit through a timeshare presentation to "claim" the prize. We listened to the guy's timeshare pitch politely, asked some questions, and since we were planning on buying a new home in 2015 (which we ended up doing), we declined to sign up for anything. The dude immediately turned into a complete jerk to us. It was so insulting. To top things off, the night we were in the hotel, someone stole the offroad lights off my Jeep! I was beyond ticked off by the time we got home. The only upside was my wife and I discovered the show Wheeler Dealers that night at the hotel. We literally see that as the ONLY upside to that trip to Breck.
Car giveaways are gigantic scheme/scam. My blame, however, points at RUclips, who shouldn’t be allowing them at all. I could understand if the vehicle in question was being held by RUclips itself to be distributed to whoever the winner is, but when the scam is finally finished, you never find out anything more about it. These RUclipsrs should have their RUclips accounts terminated.
I, literally, have a car that I won sitting in my garage right now. Are there scams out there? Almost undoubtedly. Writing ALL of the off as scams seems a little silly though. It's just gambling.
OK, who's actually won a car, or knows someone who did?
I won a beautiful 2000 Honda Civic with B series engine swap and tonnes of modifications from The Car Competition in the uk. Totally legit.
If it weren’t I think they would be shut down by now.
Actually know someone that won the Red Benspora GTR from Eighty80. He kept it for a little bit and then put it on consignment at our BMW dealership.
I knew someone that won a 2020 gt500 from a youtuber
I won a modified mercedes benz from a youtuber giveaway.
someone in Houston won the Silver Rocket Bunny Supra.
In third grade, I won a glow in the dark ruler. I didn't have to pay any taxes or compromise my personal info. All I had to do was buy $189 worth of books.
Friend "won" a car at MLB Reds game when her seat number was called. Turned out to be a 1 year lease despite all ads and announcements saying "win a car" After considering taxes, insurance, the extremely low number of allowable miles and needing another car in 12 months when the lease ended, she turned it down. Also there was no cash equivalent prize.
Wow. Even the MLB is scamming. Damn shame. Lies lies and more lies.
It’s always to benefit someone. They get the cut for the lease, if you renew the lease or buy the car out they make a % on top. Shady
That's how they scam people. Tell the AG and media
Why didn't she sue?
That's why I always read the terms and conditions. I won an unlocked phone and then they tried to state that for me to claim my prize that I had to sign up to a particular carrier. I literally pulled out the conditions of this lottery and asked them to point out where it stated this. They eventually folded and let me claim it.
I actually won one of these giveaways a little over a year ago for a different company/charity not shown in this video. The giveaway was totally legit, though I did have to pay the taxes on the car when I filed my taxes, etc.
Crazy enough though, the place I won it from was shut down 4 months after I won it because the CEO had his hands in the cookie jar a bit too frequently, and the Feds busted him. Dude was siphoning money from the charity's bank accounts for his own personal gain.
No surprise there
What car was it?
Sounds like a car give away from a particular South Carolina Veterans charity...
@@JP-hj2gs It's exactly that charity....
@@eliasnavarro9245 It was a 2023 Mercedes AMG C63s.
My fav are multipliers, if you multiply everyones entrys the odds are exactly the same.
For those that purchase a specific item that has a specific multiplier different items will have different multipliers
And they aren’t offered at the same time. But if everyone waits for that 10x, then yes, absolutely are the same
But they're not exactly the same because people don't buy exactly the same stuff 🤦♂️
If an individual entry is what becomes the winner then the multipliers make it that much harder to win. If I see 2x entries only I’ll consider it, but 20c entries is an instant no from me.
Non purchase entries don't get multipliers, that's how they make sure only purchasers win or at least 99.9999999% odds of a purchaser winning. It's just a way to get around the no purchase necessary rule.
Call me an idiot I know.. but I had a lot of free time at my last job on night shift so I mailed 400 entries to Taylor Rays Fummins truck giveaway because I really wanted that truck. Each handwritten notecard was worth 10 entries, so I had 4000 entries. And I carefully read all the terms and conditions. Guess what, I didn’t win. His channel had around 300k subs and it was a truck so I figured I had pretty good odds. I guarantee you the legal company did not hand count any of my entries and threw them all in the trash
props bro that shit take determination still😂 i always thought abt doing that but id get lazy n feed into the scam n buy a shirt hoping they’d hold more value then the postcards, never worked, for me at least 🤣
These giveaways say you can mail your entries (because legally giveaways like these have to accept them), but they only really want people buying merchandise to get entered. It's all too easy to just say your mail-in entry was lost or didn't arrive in time. It's not really a "giveaway" when they are still making a profit.
I'm with you, I think they throw them out. I'm a small business owner. Our first year open, we ran a contest that was similar to these. It was based on appointments or gift cards. However, we, too, had to follow the law and offer a free option. We weren't as intense with ours. We just required you to mail something with your name and information on it. We even waited 5 days after it ended, so all mail in entries could be counted. Funny enough, we only had 1 person do the mail in. We made sure to put it in, and she actually won 2nd place. We used the same random drawing picker most of these use. That convinced me they aren't doing things right. I personally have entered a lot of these over the years. 1 contest I racked up over 750,000 entries, all free, i had to watch videos and click links and stuff. I was in college and would do it during lectures or in my free time. It took me weeks, spending hours a day doing it. They had 4 prizes they were giving away. Magically, I didn't win anything.
Your odds were still extremely low.
The mail in entry addresses are always the third party company running the sweepstakes. I can assure you that if they receive the entry it is indeed entered. It is a huge felony to run illegal lotteries and ignoring free entries, plus these are third party companies which have no tie to the company selling entries.
I wouldn’t call it a waste of time. It’s a “free” way to have a small chance of winning and not wasting the money. I’ve even sent a few mail in’s for some of these during my lunch breaks as well regardless of the odds lol.
@@CD-kx1ef in fine print it says you cannot challenge (legal action) the company if you didn’t win. That right there tells me my mail in entries weren’t counted if there is no consequence
Even the legit ones are essentially idiot tax...just like the lottery.
@richardharrold9736enjoy your tax. Lmao
Answer... Yes! Save your money lol
No, Invest!
@@AnotherYoubuenice try Diddy
nice try diddy
@@AnotherYoubuenice try diddy
@@AnotherYoubuewhy would we listen to you lol
The Drive bringing the heat lately with new content. Lovin it!
Love it. The content need
Hell some RUclipsrs like streetspeed717 dont even make content anymore. Just ads for giveaways. Disgusting.
Is it disgusting? They are making hands over fist. It’s the idiots gambling that are suckers.
Casinos do the same shit. These dudes know how to play it
Why I don’t sub to him anymore 😂 but then again I’m not stupid enough to “” gamble” my money away just for a shot at winning a car
Streetspeed 717 is the biggest douche bag ever.
His channel has turned into such trash. Ever since him and that guy split it’s been a terrible channel.
Why not buy a bunch of Chinese shirts to support his alleged drug habit?
There was a channel that was “giving away” cars like this with entries. I did some investigating years ago and a lot of the winners were actually their friends or family that won. They stole money from people buying lying to people
Tell the FBI
Talk about mess up
When cybertruck came out nitro circus gave away one like week-long give away where you had to watch shows to get entries then day of give away some old lady won that was related to the guy on the team doing the giveaway 😂
@MrXbloodline scam, report to IRS online
@@MrXbloodline yeah, I figured. 90% of the time I automatically assume friends, family or close friends of said giveaway team wins.
almost every single youtuber is doing this,they are even giving away their own cars!
“Giving away” but I get what you mean
@@Yourmission9 yeah ,that lol
'Cause their revenues are declining.
Yea cuz it’s big profit , smart if you ask me
@@hoody504it’s scummy. They should get a real job
I won a vehicle through a Nascar/Toyota giveaway a few years ago and even a check for the sales taxes along with a ton of other really cool stuff. I did have to claim all of that as taxable income on the following years taxes. Overall, a $40k vehicle, a VIP trip, 3k in goodies, and a $7500 check for around $10k total wasn't a bad deal at all. I kept it for many many years and didn't have a single problem with until I wanted my dream manufacturer vehicle, and had nothing but equity towards my new purchase. So it was the gift that just kept giving in my opinion.
It literally gambling
Not really if you decide you happen to like a piece of clothing or merch and you buy that just for itself and it just happens to come with some entries for a car giveaway that's just a bonus.
@@EmanHowells this is just copium, a lot are buying only because of the giveaway, otherwise the people running them wouldn't see a benefit to it
@@Jxsey I'm not saying it isn't what is to call it Gambling is a bit of a stretch if you're receiving merch that would be the same price for your merch anyways
@@EmanHowells it basically is, just with extra steps
@@Jxsey no it isn't for example eighty 80 how the hat I liked so I bought one and it came with some raffle points for the car. How am I gambling When I paid for a product and I got.
There's a group here in Australia called 'Keep it Reet' that are currently raffling a worked R32 GTR. They claim the raffle is capped at 3500 entries. And they have a deal where you can buy 600 entries for $250. Doesn't this mean you could theoretically 'buy out' the raffle for $1500 (6x - $250 for 3600 entries) and take the car?
Your math doesn't add up
3,500 x $250 = $875,000. Assuming they don't have a limit on how many entries one person can a buy, you'd be paying around a million dollars after taxes. Just a tad bit of difference from your $1,500 figure.
@@YeshuaDisciple916 That's not the math. He said $250/600 entries (3500entries/600entries)*$250 = $1458.33
I thought the same thing, however the key word here is ENTRIES vs ENTRANTS. The 3500 cap is for entrants, and a single entrant can buy multiple entries. $3500 x $250 = $875,000 is the correct math, if we went based on the cap being entries rather than entrants it becomes (600 / $250) x 3500 = $8,400.... or go by their base of $20 each it becomes $20 x 3500 = $70,000... Why would any company give a way a car worth over $100k for that little money, not even profiting?
@@abrpt Ahh. I see. Good insight. Why would a company give away a car for that little money?... Promotion maybe?
Back in I think 1999, when I was working at the mall, a local radio station (WPST) was giving away a car they stuck in the food court. The contest was they had to "Live in it to win it!", for 30 days. Good times lol. One guy lost his job 2 weeks in, a young woman got dumped and the old lady had to leave early.
Amazing they let them live at the mall 24/7, any homeless would easily win this
There’s two things to remember when you come across things like this nothing in life is free and if it is too good to be true, it probably is
Yes of course they are. They’re just legal. They’re just getting you to buy worthless crap. How do you think ol Dave Sparks “Heavy D” from Diesel Power (DP) was able to own a friggin UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter and buy so much of his vehicles, trucks, massive property and house. Yall bought him all that lunacy that you’ll never own. They preyed on your desires and/or needs ENRFORCE, 80Eighty, Own Boss Supply Company, Speed Society, Enthuszst…
I was totally thinking how back in the day it was about revealing their custom giveaways
Same as Cleetus
If you think Heavy D owns a lot of stuff, you haven't seen the stuff Cleetus McFarland owns. Probably the only guy on RUclips to own a legit FAA recognized airport. And there can't be too many people out there who own a private race track either.
@@judgegixxer Uh, methinks that Garrett's family is rather incredibly well off, in essence, Dad bought him a career.
When Dave Sparks was booted off TV and came to RUclips he said he was going to do a huge giveaway for subs to his channel to get a bunch of subs. He set up milestones to reach for each giveaway and only done one of those giveaways so far, yet he is 4 millions subs and should have had like 10 giveaways. Besides all his other merch giveaways, which I also think are scams.
I can’t count the number of YT channels I unsub’d when they started their raffles.
Yup. Same here.
I have done plenty of the give a ways...but I dont charge anything for them, all you have to do is be a viewer....but to be fair, I am not giving cars lol 😂
Anytime a RUclipsr tells you that "if you buy some merch today you'll get 1000x entries!!" It feels so scammy like they are just flat out lying to you.
because it is, those multipliers mean jack since everyone else was waiting for it to. Atp just don't mention any multipliers and leave it be normally. They just do it to hype it up and gain peoples attention. I feel bad for people who enter before the multipliers, skipping out on tons of entries.
They are scams they always say today is the last day or the final hours and then I get another email every day for the next week about the same exact thing that today is a final day the final hours of the giveaway. It’s all a scam.
@@textman09 "final hours" for the next week lol. More like final days.
The worst part about the "no purchase necessary" rules for these sweepstakes is 2 parts
1. They state that they are not required to give you a notice they ever even received your no purchase entry
2. They also put in the T&C that if the flash card is not formatted PERFECTLY to the specifications they laid out (address top left, name center, a spiel on the back about how this would change your life) they can reject your entry
Theyve basically worded it to the point that ANY no-purchase entries can go right in the garbage and they can claim "it wasnt done correctly to the t&c" if theyre ever challenged in court
Car giveaways are like lottery: tax on the dumb poors.
@richardharrold9736 meh "investing", AdamLZ makes $300K ona giveaway of a $100K car. A multi millionaire extracting $200K out of the poors. Absurd.
@richardharrold9736example: Streetspeed717
He transformed all his content from car content to 90%raffle content/10% car content.
It is disappointing.
@@idokwatcher2062 can’t say it’s a scam if the car actually exists and you have a chance of winning it. As long as people want free things, car, giveaways, or raffles will never die. At least most of them cleaned up their act and you’re not stuck paying the tax bill and at least you get some merch that you actually like.
@@regalcatnetwork8068...I have yet to hear anyone winning a car they saw for "free" at the mall
I have a friend who won 2 vehicles by holding his hand on it the longest. Once was wild, when he won the second contest, it was unbelievable.
is his name kelso ???
@@Gas45678 No.
That's different. Like a game show.
@limbeboy7 Used to be a popular contest around here when radio stations and malls were still huge with people. News would go there and see how many people were still hanging onto car. Was funny to see the position people would pick and then how that worked out hours and sometimes days later. Think they allowed rest room breaks but otherwise had to keep holding car or be eliminated.
I have a coworker who won a giveaway car. It was like 4-5 years ago. Really nice widebody bug eye wrx. That still blows my mind.
High scam alert 🚨 that’s what my bank actually told me. They sell your information.
When I was about 14 I got a job as a telemarketer in the Seattle area, and our "leads" came in every morning.. it was a big cardboard box that said "win a car" straight from the mall, they would dump all the entries on the table and tell us to start dialing. Half of them ended up lost or in the trash after that. I don't know if a car was ever even actually given away at all. This was around 1999
An ISP I used to work for when they were in the Long Distance phone business did car giveaways in the mall, which they did give a car away but you were signing up to make them your Long Distance phone provider when they asked for your home phone number (this was before the cellphone boom).
More than a few years ago, I was one of 20 qualifiers for the chance to win a car from “Goodguys” (1 from each of their giant car shows they put on all over the US) they gave me a check to pay for travel from Iowa to Columbus OH for the giveaway - us 20 people got to pick a key out of a bowl of keys - when I picked my key there were 4 left in the bowl & the guy who won picked his right after I did 🤦🏼♂️ - Had I won, I would have had the value of the car- (a Chip Foose-ified 69 Camaro w / a 572 GM crate motor and a 6-speed) added to what I owed as income tax on that next year. They said they had insurance on it for the drive home or they would deliver it to your house. Had I won, I would have driven it a couple times and then sent it to Barret-Jackson or Mecum before the tax was due… didn’t win so oh well! At least I got to meet Chip Foose! 😎
Many years ago I attended an event for timeshare vacations, I was told that just for attending the event I was automatically gonna be given a free 3 day vacation at any of their resorts.
Long story short the whole thing turned into an exercise of them trying to sell me random stuff, and me playing along while being careful not fall into the trap.
They did end up reluctantly giving me my free vacation at the end of the day, which I never actually took because it was never about the free prize for me.
Used to work in a Vegas casino and they started doing car give away, and almost all of the winners took the cash prize instead. One lady who won rode the bus everywhere no way she had the cash on hand to pay the taxes. I few of the classic cars they gave away did get kept instead of the cash which makes sense since there is no deprecation on them and a good investment.
My friend won a fully built track and street ready 2015 SS 1LE for spending $50 and he won $500 from the same company
The Omaze charities were sketchy charities that I wouldn't give money too.
must enter by midnight🤣
Right. Who's to say the 'charity' is legit? Does anyone think the govt. is sending hundreds of agents, nationwide, to catch these scammers? No way, Josay.
The ticket prices pay for the car and profit. They almost always have a min amount of tickets sold. Plus this gives promotion.
Bro....if 80eighty is giving away a 400k car. I sell it and pay 50% in taxes I will walk away with my mortgage paid off.
I need Tshirts anyway. Lmao
Bug have you noticed that their contests are being dragged out longer now? Its the equivelent of winning the lottery now
@@Intransversable They have to drag them out longer, because each one seemingly is higher and higher value. Higher value = they have to have them open for longer to sell more merch to cover the costs. If they went back to doing 200k cars, we'd have a giveaway every month or so. But with this current Porsche giveaway, which I think is like 460k or something ridiculous, it's basically a 2.5 month long giveaway.
I’ve debated that, as long as you sell the car fairly quickly seeing how the raffle for the Porsche ends in December. Be nice to cruise around for a year then sell it
Do you need overpriced shirts with ugly graphics though?
My mom's boyfriend actually won a car at a mall. The only catch was he has to pay his own insurance and gas . He ended up crashing it due to him not caring for maintenance. Goes to show you what is earned is usually the better route. He ended up with a wayyyy uglier car but this car he took care of.
Tuner Cult seems to have regular winners, but it always seems to be the " Final Day" to enter for like a week. Then they add a car, for a chance to win Two cars, then the additional car is up by itself for a while, That's what bothers me about these giveaways. They are not upfront about the process.
Haven't seen anyone win both cars.
We need more Transparency.
It's not that you win both cars. It's that you get entries for both cars without having to make individual purchases for both cars.
@rick_coplover92 thanks for explaining.
I entered a restomods giveaway in June of this year. And I didn't win, in the midst of my excitement, with the possibility of winning a 68 Charger, I started to dig around the terms & agreements. As the video mentioned, they didn't shed any light as to how the taxes would be handled, and as someone living in Canada, the mathematical test through me for a loop. Alas, I never got to explore what it would be like to go through the process, and possibly grab the keys to my Charger. And I entered with the premise, "A Canadian hasn't won in quite sometime, now is the time, the law of averages is in my favour." Suffice to say, giveaway is great for marketing, raffles are what they are actually hosting.
To be honest it is easier for Canadians to report winning prizes. In most cases it isn't taxed unless the prize/draw is related to your employer.
This applies to lotteries as well which is awesome.
A wise man once told me "nothing in this world is free and if it is free it's most likely a scam"
14:33 Oh...I thought every American's favorite pastime was suing lol
Forgot to mention on how a lot of these "winners" often times just so happen to be connected by like the 2nd degree to the ones running the raffles..
Here’s how the scam works. Legally you can’t be forced to make a purchase to win. That’s why all the time you hear no purchase necessary. On their website in the fine print in a far dark corner of the website it will say no purchase necessary to win. You can mail in as many entries as you want. They mark up their merch, and then they make a fake profile and say that’s the person who won. Likely the car was rented just for the videos. Keep an eye on the page or the profile in a year it will be deleted.
I want to know 2 things about these car giveaways one.How much money are they making off these things? 2. How much of taxes are going to be for the Porsche GT3RS
128k in taxes 😎
Deadass only bought something I thought was any bit valuable to myself for giveaways. Just spent 1.5k into Z1 motorsports because of the Black Friday sale. It was just a good sale to buy parts to go to the race track.
Now I also have giveaway entries. Kinda a “kill two birds with one stone” situation.
I'm just a simple dude trying to show someone a good time in Japan, and entry is completely free just by subscribing 🥺
The fact that almost every influencer is doing it should be all you need to know
I worked for a company, and one day I came into the office and the owner, my boss had on all this 1320 merch. He told me about how he was probably going to win this fox body cause he spent like 1,000$ on merch (he had a fox body that was all tore up)..
He didn’t win. And I quit shortly after. It was such a red flag to me.
I can’t understand why people would believe this and not understand how much money these dudes are pocketing.
Return the junk
What a coindince when one polish youtuber got arrested by car giveaways and money laundering and leading a criminal group
What was his name?
The guy from Poland was arrested this week for making illiegal giveaways with some taxing fraud.
What is the name of the RUclipsr?
@@mercedesbenz6657 Budda
Budda@@mercedesbenz6657
100k prize / 30 dollar shirt means they need 3,300 entries to get their money back which is EASY.
These give aways are just a tax write off anyway. So in the end these prizes make the organizers a shit ton of a money and drive huge traffic.
It's kind of a win/win.
If it’s not an illegal scam, it’s still a scam. Making people think that purchasing more merch will give them a better chance to win is criminal😂
I used to enter these. Even a local guy from my neighborhood started doing it. It's a waste of money. HUNDREDS and THOUSANDS of people enter these. And only ONE person is selected. Not only that, the amount of money these companies make off on one raffle! I'm better off investing that money into something else.
Here in Australia the scam behind them is that the give away is run via a raffle. Then it is always, legally speaking, a promotion for a business (even if the business is giving away cars) so it becomes tax free and doesn't require a lottery license. So the companies will sell tons more tickets then the car is worth, and pocket all the profits totally tax free.
I won a C10 from Motion Auto TV. They aslo paid the taxes.
The Drive another awesome video, keep it up with great work bringing us awesome content like this 🤟😍🤟
Almost 20 years ago, I won a Scion XB and this is totally accurate on how much it costs to take ownership. Sales tax and federal and state income taxes were many thousands of dollars. It was a $15k car and it cost me more than a third of that to "win" it. I'm not complaining. I ultimately sold it with 40 miles on it and walked away with 8k in cash but yikes!
You will see the timer countdown to the last hour, then suddenly the timer resets for another 7 days and add another impossible to win car. I caught on to their B.S.
I know someone personally that won from 80eighty and they were flown out to Utah, given the car and cash for the taxes
I remember that ACURA in the Milpitas Mall.... Tourist in the area are the only ones signing up
I've recycled those entries before to save others
I remember 80…erm… a certain company used to color the text of the “No Purchase Necessary” option to match the website background so it was practically impossible to see unless your cursor changed when you hovered over it.
Cleetus is about the only one i tryst. Ive seen giveaways go to friend's instead of winners.Social media makes it easy to spot the giveaway scammers which at least 80% are
Can you check the HodgeTwins monthly giveaways with a car and cash? It's almost too good to be true but they do count thousands of entries per person for purchasing stuff and maximum entry per person is 3,000 which means you can have millions upon millions of entries.
I’m it definitely seems sketchy.
Someone will eventually win but not until they sell enough merch to cover the cost of the vehicle and then some
Always been skeptical of these "giveaways". When Richard Rawlins starts "raffling" cars away on GMG that says it all.
He’s the shadiest of them all.
I actually won two sweepstakes within a few months of each other. One was a Cheez It text to win or instant win online(which is how I won) for a Ford Escape Hybrid. I took 25k since I planned on selling it and paid 5k in taxes(just used prize money). The other prize was for a used International Semi Truck from one of their 17 dealerships. Had to have over 300k mileage and an International Diesel engine NOT a Cummins Diesel which was a better engine. It had a sleeper cab and a 100k warranty BUT the stealership was valuing the prize a 85k(a lot of taxes!). I asked if they could cut me a check like Cheez It did…Nope! How about buying the truck back from me on paper after accepting prize and only having to give me 60-65k…Nope! I ended up turning down the prize because after checking out the values of a semi truck in that condition(no where near worth 85k!) it seemed that the stealership was just overvaluing the prize to write it off on taxes for a vehicle that they couldn’t sell to begin with! I would’ve had to pay 17,000 in taxes on an overinflated prize that I wouldn’t have been able to sell or trade in for anywhere near the stealership’s estimated prize value. Having said all of that…I still enter one entry only contests from GM,Ford etc. because I have the same odds as everyone else! According to my tax guy you can’t write off sweepstakes tickets even for charities because there’s a prize involved. I will throw my name in the hat for a car/truck that I like by buying a t-shirt etc.(100X entries etc.) because I’ll at least get something tangible in return. Money allowing I’ll also donate money to Omaze etc. for a chance at whatever prize they’re offering. It’s a shot in the dark that I’d have zero chance otherwise by not entering and at least it goes to a good cause! Bottom line…choose your battles/charities and someday you might get that call. There are also the free HGTV Home Sweepstakes that just require email,name,address but can be worth up to 2 million etc. with a cash payout option(lower amount)as well. So…what’s not to like?!😁👍
I understand the car being considered "income" and subject to income taxes, but no way should it be subject to sales tax. That's on whoever bought it to give it away.
In Indonesia, the tax for prizes and giveaways could reach from 15 to 25% depending on the prize type. Even if it's an award from winning a match, race, or game, the winners would also get charged by that prize tax law 😢
Dream Giveaway is a donation website for charities. And you can enter without making donation on the website. I did it with the all black Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing and Escalade V giveaway. Its just not tax deductible like the monetary contribution. And a cash prize is offered with new but its for covering the taxes and registration on the cars only. Dream sometimes cover the flight and hotel stay.
In the U.K. we have car raffles. However on most you have to answer an easy question to make it skill based. The best are the ones are the fixed odds (maximum amount of tickets declared) where you know your odds. The worst is BOTB which is multiple cars that look like there all going to be won but they are really all in one draw. I won my dream car, an V8 F type Jag, in a fixed odds draw.
Sounds like an advert.
I believe rules in the uk state that for any raffle all tickets drawn must be sold so someone is guaranteed to win. It is gambling, it’s not a scam but you might not always know the odds on winning.
Same here but i didn’t win yet. 😅 I like dream car giveaways, i was at 1 digit distance to win an RS6 or 75.000£. Of course it’s a lottery, in order to give a car they sell 125% of the car value in thickets. This it’s how businesses operate. However, feels better to spend 5-6£ each week on couple of thickets instead of something else.
My friend one serveral cars on those.
I used to enter these. Even a local guy from my neighborhood started doing it. It's a waste of money. HUNDREDS and THOUSANDS of people enter these. And only ONE person is selected. Not only that, the amount of money these companies!
*_ALL_* giveaways are a scam.
[Full Stop]
The "giveaway" is your personal information - what you receive in return is silence and stress because you thought you could get something for free. Now your privacy has been destroyed and your data has been disseminated across the web. Good job. [Slow clap]
_"Nothing in life is free. You always pay in the end."_ *~Wayne Static*
Stay classy my friends.
Even Halloween? The candy is free, isn't it?
Yup, it's basically mass phishing, so they can sell all your info to 3rd parties.
Do you have a smart phone? Privacy destroyed.
Made a youtube account? Privacy destroyed [Slow clap]
*Tips fedora
Plot twist, I was going to buy their merchandise anyway so the entry to win , love cleetus’s giveaways and his merch
there’s also ppl who make you just straight up buy “raffle tickets” (the more you buy the higher chance you win type thing)
If they ask you to "kindly" do anything, it's a scam.
I remember being kinda meh about Regular Car Reviews doing giveways but then he had a side channel video explaining how it happened and then it hit me, like hey this is grey area gambling, that's a bit scummy
Ah, good old RCR, his subscribers essentially supported his "I found all of this on Wkikipedia!" channel while he learned about cars, sort of like fans paying Taylor Swift to learn how to sing...after she began her career.
Yeah, some of the merch is cool enough to own, I like the 80eighty shirt “save the manuals”. It’s worth buying the shirt and know that you won’t win a car - there are some legit giveaways/raffles like Cletus McFarland, hodgetwins, vicegrip garage, etc. they always dedicate a video to the pickup process.
Yes.
I remember the Stradman's only giveaway and a kid answered the phone.
Like…THAT Stradman?? Lmao
In Canada we may have to do math even for the cereal box prizes, but we don't pay income tax on lotteries, raffles, casino winnings, non-employment-related gifts, etc.
"Your almost doing a good deed" 😂😂 good video
“Too bad the IRS doesn’t allow happiness and gratitude as payment” 🤣😭😭
4:30 Just to clear some stuff up. 80eighty pays for the winners flights out to Utah and pays for lodging while you're there. You don't need a vacation home to win because hotels exist. They also pay to ship the car to your house after you go to their shop and claim the prize.
Myth
Prizes are taxed differently than purchases, so the winner prob has to either pay a huge tax or say no to taking posession. Im sure 80 eighty rarely has winners actually follow through
@@ilikebudlite We've never had a winner decline taking the car! Every car comes with cash to help offset the taxes. The winner also has the choice to sell the car. Take 30 seconds out of your day and go to the website and you can see all the past winners, every single one of them took the car not a single one declined. I highly suggest you do that before you start talking about something you have no clue about.
@@Levixwelchyou represent your company and you want to tell the public what to think?!
Read my reply carefully and tell me where i said what you made up in your head.
I hope the world sees how unprofessional you are
@@ilikebudlite You said "I'm sure 80eighty rarely has winners actually follow through" which is completely false and to which my response was made. I'm not unprofessional just because you're wrong. I also never told anyone how they should think. I only stated facts and suggested doing research yourself. In no way shape or form did I tell anyone how or what to think.
I like the idea of these but I hate the “entry multipliers” so I end up never entering thinking there will be a higher multiplier later.
I use Tuner Cult every once in a while, but I never consider winning. If it weren't for bad luck I'd have none at all. I just like their merch quality, and see the entries as a bonus.
tuner cult used to be just a t shirt company under a different name. I cant remember the name of the original company because it was many years back, but they did all these random sales, one of which I bought a bunch of shirts from. I never received what I purchased only to see they closed the "business" and reopened as tuner cult (I double checked the registered business address and owners name which matched at the time). I got ghosted, no responses to any attempt at reaching out and blocked by them on social media when I made my claims public. Also obviously no refund
The handwritten, free entry is often phrased is confusing ways. Ive never entered, but i read the rules ones and emailed them to clarify what they wanted to be written on the entry. I received no response, so I avoid these raffles. People do win, but the free entries are intentionally phrased so that they can discard your entry if it doesn't conform to the most stringent rules.
I won a 2008 Lincoln MKZ. It was not free after title/documentation fees and taxes but I wouldnt call it a scam because in the end it only cost a little over $500.
Prize money in UK is tax free, so with cars there's always a tax free cash alternative. Normally the car is worth more if you sell it but then there's insurance and road tax and all that.
I entered one a couple of years ago. My advice is if you entered using any credit /debt card make certain you cancel it. If you don't the contest will end but they will still charge your card!!!
Just lock it lol
80Eighty said each post card is worth 5 entries. Spent a whole day, wrote out 100 postcards. Obviously still lost because fine print states "proof of sending does not equal proof of receiving".
I got an add for a timeshare before this video so yes they are.
Here in Australia its common to see charity groups giving away a car in a raffle at a stand in a shopping center while raising money for whatever charity it is. Is that much of a thing over there?
A raffle is gambling, which isn't legal in most states unless the government gets their cut.
That happens. You are donating to the charity and can write that donation off on your taxes so lots of rich people use it. If they win, they can sell the car if they don’t want it.
I’m glad that in Quebec Canada it’s actually completely illegal to organize this so people can’t fall for these “giveaways”
Not how tax brackets work. If the prize put you into a higher bracket you would only pay the higher rate on the amounts in the higher bracket. Unless you were $1 under the lower bracket then the entire car would be taxed higher.
Lmao when you said fest at Taco Bell for under $10 a taco bell ad interpreted the video
Wait so if you hand write a letter entry, wouldn't they legally be required to include your entry with the digital entries? What prevents them from just disregarding physical entries from digital? How would you even know if they did or didn't?
One of my childhood friends won a car from throttle. He explained the way it all worked, very above board
The RUclips channel The Ace Family had several car giveaways yet we never saw anyone who won the car. Rumors were that they rented the cars to show on their videos to get people to spend money on their raffle that no one was going to win from the start.
Wait cant you take the approx cash value and pay tax on that therefore avoid having to sell a car you owe taxes on?
12:39 Denver airport had the same thing, they had a pearl white 1198(99?) Ducati Panigale, sign up by filling out the post card. Months/years later someone from a timeshare company calls saying they got your information from a vehicle raffle, etc etc.
I think I signed up for the same Ducati giveaway! This would have been back in spring of 2014. The "consolation prize" was a night stay at a low-budget hotel in Breckenridge in the fall (so not even ski season), and we had to sit through a timeshare presentation to "claim" the prize. We listened to the guy's timeshare pitch politely, asked some questions, and since we were planning on buying a new home in 2015 (which we ended up doing), we declined to sign up for anything. The dude immediately turned into a complete jerk to us. It was so insulting.
To top things off, the night we were in the hotel, someone stole the offroad lights off my Jeep! I was beyond ticked off by the time we got home. The only upside was my wife and I discovered the show Wheeler Dealers that night at the hotel. We literally see that as the ONLY upside to that trip to Breck.
I’ve wondered this myself!
Car giveaways are gigantic scheme/scam. My blame, however, points at RUclips, who shouldn’t be allowing them at all.
I could understand if the vehicle in question was being held by RUclips itself to be distributed to whoever the winner is, but when the scam is finally finished, you never find out anything more about it. These RUclipsrs should have their RUclips accounts terminated.
Can report them as a scam and send screenshot to their social media
I, literally, have a car that I won sitting in my garage right now. Are there scams out there? Almost undoubtedly. Writing ALL of the off as scams seems a little silly though. It's just gambling.
Casey's Customs won an Instagram giveaway. He made a video about it.
I mean someone wins. But it's the same as the lottery. They take in more in sales than they give out in prizes.