all I see now is people raffling off their new and used gear on Facebook. Probably started this year, why has this suddenly become a thing and is it legit? Its also sponsored anglers doing it alot.

In reply to Post #1
Loads of raffles on Facebook for years for new gear and cash etc.....I have even won a few time's.....

Easy was to sell I guess....someone may not be able to afford say £400 on say reels but can afford £10/20 on a couple numbers in a raffle. The speed the ones I have seen fill up it's a quick way to sell aswell.
Their us a local page on fb that I'm on and the bloke who runs the page does raffles for all sorts of fishing gear all the time. Started with small bait bundles and has done really well and now does bigger prizes. I have just received a set of 3 new delkims and reciever from a win....put one number on and won...cost me £20 so it's a great idea to sell new and old stuff and is affordable to everyone to enter!

It is legit to a point and also quite a good punt at times, the ones i have seen on facebook are usually £2 a ticket against lottery draw, person organises it takes £118 and offers a prize about £100 so makes a little each time, does a couple of these a day and bet the tax man never gets involved

its a good way to sell I think, Im on a few old school bmx bike fb pages and some of the bikes are worth 1000s if the owner of said bike wanted back what he originally paid for building the bike, after sourcing parts from abroad (add import duty) he would more than likely not be able to sell it without splitting it up..so selling tickets for £20 @ a limited amount per person but an amount to cover what he is happy with, someone at the end of the raffle gets a 1k plus bike for £20 or a little more..

A farmer said I see your horse is not looking very well ? the guy said its going Im going to raffle it £5 a ticket he sold £500 worth but before the draw the horse died the farmer said what are you going to do he said I will pull the winning ticket then when he comes to collect it I will say Im so sorry its just died and give him his £5 back

In reply to Post #6
thats why you never do business with a pikey.

There are raffles for about everything you could image, another hobby of mine has probably 20+ different raffles running per day by loads of different people.

Unfortunately whilst most people are honest a few weeks ago a few lads got caught out. A small group of 16/17/18 year old lads were running raffles on facebook and it seems that they were selling tickets to 'fake' facebook profiles. So probably ones they or their mates had created therefore never actually loosing the item they were raffling but collecting the whole kitty

So just be careful

In reply to Post #8
that is why you should only enter a raffle on a properly moderated fb page. I've entered ones being held in the usa, never won but if I did it would all be kosher. someone cant just join the page then set up a raffle..

In reply to Post #1
One of my local waters has set up a page to do one. The prizes and money made are very close to rrps but seems a good way to keep them trickling money in and also giving people a chance to own some serious gear for relatively little outlay. They gave away a 700 quid seat box yesterday, not my ball but think it was for about 12 quid a ticket. At least I know them to be reputable and where they are.

In reply to Post #9
Yes exactly, need to do your research to check everythings above board

In reply to Post #1
The object in the raffle is usually a lot less value than the money gained from the raffle.....
so make your choice

In reply to Post #12
Surely that's the point?!

In reply to Post #11
Personally I thought Rise of The Foot Soldier was a much better film than Rise of The Carp Raffles 👍

Finchy at Bankside has held a couple recently basically enough to make the RRP of the product at about 6 or 7 quid a punt, tackle shops not being open for walk in trade atm keeps a bit of publicity for them out there whilst selling a little bit as well.