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Offline Sharpe

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Re: What have you done to your mk8 today?
« Reply #1030 on: 30 March 2025, 19:47 »
Just waved goodbye, 6 months to the day since I got it. A brilliant car I couldn’t fault, and would not normally change after such a short period of time. Lost £2400 in 6 months, so on par with a lease/PCP payment but over a shorter time. Just fancied something a bit bigger and got a very good deal on a new A5 Avant.

It’s actually gone to RevComps, who will probably have it up this week. I’ll buy a couple of tickets for a laugh
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Re: What have you done to your mk8 today?
« Reply #1031 on: 31 March 2025, 14:10 »
Did RevComps bid for the car via a particular website?
It’d be a result to win it back!
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Re: What have you done to your mk8 today?
« Reply #1032 on: 31 March 2025, 19:34 »
Quote from: Exonian on 31 March 2025, 14:10
Did RevComps bid for the car via a particular website?
It’d be a result to win it back!

No, I just posted in a Facebook group that it would be going in a few weeks. He messaged me and said he would be interested and would pay the same as WBAC. Paid by bank transfer there and then, was all done in about half a hour.
Definitely be buying a few tickets, wouldn’t even have to change the name on the V5C!
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Re: What have you done to your mk8 today?
« Reply #1033 on: 02 April 2025, 08:14 »
Quote from: Sharpe on 31 March 2025, 19:34
Quote from: Exonian on 31 March 2025, 14:10
Did RevComps bid for the car via a particular website?
It’d be a result to win it back!

No, I just posted in a Facebook group that it would be going in a few weeks. He messaged me and said he would be interested and would pay the same as WBAC. Paid by bank transfer there and then, was all done in about half a hour.
Definitely be buying a few tickets, wouldn’t even have to change the name on the V5C!

The same as we buy any car you say!?

Wow he started at the bottom of the value scale then 🤣
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Re: What have you done to your mk8 today?
« Reply #1034 on: 02 April 2025, 16:32 »
WBAC were 2k higher than Audi we’re offering for PX, and 1k higher than VW would have bought back at trade price. I did pop details into Motorway a while back but didn’t get around to following it up. I’m quite happy with having cost me £400 a month over such a short period of time. Probably could have got a bit more on a private sale but the timings worked perfectly for me
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Re: What have you done to your mk8 today?
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Offline BillSan

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Re: What have you done to your mk8 today?
« Reply #1036 on: 04 April 2025, 10:44 »
So RevComps are selling 2,000 tickets for £25 each.  That's £50k they're taking and offering your car plus £1k.

There's good money in gambling; but not for the punters!!!
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Offline DrivenToDistraction

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Re: What have you done to your mk8 today?
« Reply #1037 on: 04 April 2025, 11:43 »
Quote from: BillSan on 04 April 2025, 10:44
So RevComps are selling 2,000 tickets for £25 each.  That's £50k they're taking and offering your car plus £1k.

There's good money in gambling; but not for the punters!!!

It depends. When I just checked they had only sold 163 tickets. For some cars they will sell all the tickets, for others they may only sell half. It's a numbers game. However, as you say, the ticket seller/bookie usually wins in the long run.
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Re: What have you done to your mk8 today?
« Reply #1038 on: 04 April 2025, 12:15 »
Good point.  I thought they might pull the draw and refund, which is relatively easy with electronic payments, if they didn't sell out.

However I see that they do the draw regardless, so yes it's a game of averages, where they win more than they lose.
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Re: What have you done to your mk8 today?
« Reply #1039 on: 04 April 2025, 13:58 »
Assuming of course that they don't put all of the tickets into the draw, sold or unsold...

Which of course stacks the odds...

None of these draws are particularly transparent in their details...
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