Some insight on “Win a car competitions”

Do you want to win a car?

Finding the best car competitions isn’t obvious, but one thing is clear, there are no free car competition. Yes, free prize draws and car raffles may appear to be free, but the reality is they are not. The UK online market is full of prizes draws to win a mini, win a Toyota Prius or win a sports car and win a super car. And hey, who doesn’t want to win a new car for free?

The reality is that free win a car competitions are not free. It seems they are, but ask yourself what do I have to do to win a car?

You will have to part with your personal information and private contact details
You will need to answer surveys and product related questions
You will need to give information on your car insurance, home insurance, and personal circumstances

Information is gold and FREE win a car prize draws and other FREE win a car competitions are just the bait to help players part with their personal details.

Win a car competition as a lead generation tool

Many “compaholics”, people addicted to free car competitions and prize draws are serial competition players. For most of the entrants and competition players wanting to win a car, lead generation is a foreign term. All these competitions are not set up and operated out of the kindness of peoples hearts. The competition promoters that offer the remote chance of winning a car do so to get your personal data. That is why they are free. By entering the win a car competitions you agree to part with your personal information, you agree that the business you are giving your private details to can sell it on to its partners many times over. Basically you are agreeing to let the competition operator make a fortune off your personal data.

I would accept to give some of my personal information if I had a real or tangible chance of winning a car. But the reality is you don’t. Car competitions rarely offer a car as a prize worth more than £15,000 or so. Some of the win a car competitions and prize draws will run for as long as 18 months. The promoter will collect millions upon millions of entries and make millions of £ selling the private information collected from the win a car competitions entries and free prize draw accounts way before the prize is awarded.

What are the odds of winning a free car competition?

Well lets put this into context, your chances of winning a “win a car competition” are in the millions.

For example: There is currently a Win a new Toyota Prius competition running somewhere on the UK net… I won’t tell you where but I have a suspicion that Google can help… The object of the game is to select 3 numbers. Each number is picked from a drop down menu, each drop down has 1 to 159 numbers. You pick one number in each drop down. Don’t forget this is to win a new car a ToyotaPrius.
So, pull out the calcualtor, 159X159X159 is?

4,019,679

You have a chance in over 4,000,000 to win… but wait how do you find out if you have won a new car? You have to call a number, your selected number from the competition entry is valid for 3 days, you can’t leave a message over the phone if there is no answer and … how much is that call?

What do you trade off when entering this win a car competition to win a new Toyota Prius? All your personal data, you agree to endless spam in the in box and flyers and promos in the letter box, phone calls at night. Is that what a win a car competition is worth.

Compare it to: What are your chances of being struck by lightning in the UK? (BBC weather centre info)

3,014,251

So how much is your personal information worth to you now?

Pay to play win a car competitions

So the need and desire to win a new car online is still present, obviously the free prize draw to win a free car is not really an option unless you plan to heat your home in winter with all the junk mail that comes through the letter box.

So paying a small entry fee to carefully selected car competitions might be a better and more viable option then entering the free prize draws to win a car. Most pay to enter car competitions make their money not selling personal information, but on a margin on the entry fees. Just like any other retailer they make margins on the value and purchase price of the prize. The good thing is that reputable competition promoters that operate pay to play car competitions protect your data. Their privacy policy are far more stricter than those of free car raffles and free car prize draws. On the contrary they make it a point to keep your information confidential, they do not sell it or pass it on to partners and other third parties.

It seems a better alternative to trying to win a car the free prize draw way. In a free prize draw you are only certain of one thing, that your information will be sold from business to business. In a pay to enter car competition you know the cost up front. That entry fee is nothing compared to the interest you would pay on a new car loan. So often it is worth the try to enter and win a new car. All the more, pay to play competitions have a significant amount of less entries, so your odds of winning a new car in a pay to play online competition are 1,000s times higher than in a free one.