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.
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.
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.
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.
Na man definitely not an idiot... I somehow thought I could win doing the same thing and have done the mail ins on and off for like 5 years. I honestly have spent probably 5-6k on stamps over the years thinking I could get the odds in my favor. I estimate I have over 3 million dollars in rough equivalent merchandise sales. It's pointless and I have since walked away doing it, there's no way even half the envelopes I sent out were even counted. The whole giveaway industry needs more regulation given the blow up over the last 10 years. There have been so many scams I have witnessed and there's no recourse. Also companies like Marden Kane, American Sweepstakes Company, Compliance Sweepstakes services, and all others I have come across are shady as hell. Next to no outside communication, "priority systems" for selection... Aka an excel file , they become an administrator for a giveaway under companies that never giveaway the vehicle and they never address it, huge variance between free entry method values, etc etc. They sure do make a killing though and given the lack of oversight there is no way some of these companies haven't given a vehicle/prize or two to family members or friends. It's a wild West out here with these giveaways.
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.
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
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.
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 TH-cam 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 TH-cam 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.
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 $100k for that little money, not even profiting?
@limbeboy7 Used to be a popular contest around here when radio stations and malls were still huge with people. News would go there and see how many people were still hanging onto car. Was funny to see the position people would pick and then how that worked out hours and sometimes days later. Think they allowed rest room breaks but otherwise had to keep holding car or be eliminated.
Not really if you decide you happen to like a piece of clothing or merch and you buy that just for itself and it just happens to come with some entries for a car giveaway that's just a bonus.
@@Jxsey I'm not saying it isn't what is to call it Gambling is a bit of a stretch if you're receiving merch that would be the same price for your merch anyways
@@Jxsey no it isn't for example eighty 80 how the hat I liked so I bought one and it came with some raffle points for the car. How am I gambling When I paid for a product and I got.
*_ALL_* giveaways are a scam. [Full Stop] The "giveaway" is your personal information - what you receive in return is silence and stress because you thought you could get something for free. Now your privacy has been destroyed and your data has been disseminated across the web. Good job. [Slow clap] _"Nothing in life is free. You always pay in the end."_ *~Wayne Static* Stay classy my friends.
@@idokwatcher2062 can’t say it’s a scam if the car actually exists and you have a chance of winning it. As long as people want free things, car, giveaways, or raffles will never die. At least most of them cleaned up their act and you’re not stuck paying the tax bill and at least you get some merch that you actually like.
I worked for a company, and one day I came into the office and the owner, my boss had on all this 1320 merch. He told me about how he was probably going to win this fox body cause he spent like 1,000$ 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.
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 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
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.
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.
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 😂
@@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 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.
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.
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).
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.
*The majority of the time unfortunately yes, they typically cherry pick the winner to be a family member or close friend while keeping the money strangers put into the giveaway*
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.
Because this channel believes using an image of a Black Man in a thumbnail for a video that has content reflecting Negative behavior or Illegal activity "SCAMS" will garner them more views. Racism 101!!
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.
Car giveaways are gigantic scheme/scam. My blame, however, points at TH-cam, who shouldn’t be allowing them at all. I could understand if the vehicle in question was being held by TH-cam 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 TH-camrs should have their TH-cam 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.
Just buy something you want like a shirt or sticker , and your entered . Never buy hoping to win. Buy cause you like the product and if you win cool. I personally buy 1 shirt a month from 80eighty , cause some of their shirts are cool
Because at the end of the year come tax time the estimated value of the prize and the cash they put on top is all stacked on top of whatever you're earned income was for that year thus a big Tax Fee is due
@@MRALEX9870exactly. Plus that model. S is an 89k car. So his income of that year plus the value of the prize so his taxes for that year is 38k. I pay around that much in taxes a year 😢😢
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!
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.
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 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.
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!
I had tried more than once in the past, never won anything. Then I thought about it. Do I really want that vehicle ? Usually not really. So, instead I just buy a lottery ticket. Yeah, I still never win, but if I did win millions I could buy whatever vehicle I want.
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.
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!!!
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 😢
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.
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.
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.
Before I watch the video everyone should know one thing if they didn’t: When you got tunercult and etc company doing “raffles” by purchasing a small product on their website for the “giveaway” they actually triple that profit margin vs than selling the car built/stock. Imagine 20k people buy $35 shirt, that’s $700k. Edit: okay I watched the video LOL ^ but I’m leaving my two cents regardless have a great day
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
Streetspeed 717 I entered one but hey it was a funny shirt that I kinda liked anyway. Anyway, there was a popup when I went to their site to get free entry. No mailing in something just give them the info that they were going to get anyway. He flies you out to get the car or appear on camera and then ships the car to you if you dont wanna drive it off. I didnt win but I got a shirt I was gonna buy anyway. never entered any others because that was the only shirt I liked.
I don't even like these when they are not a scam. It's almost always some super rich content creator preying on poor people's hope, or you have people like Dave Sparks who started his TH-cam channel promising to give away all his toys to grow his channel to only have one giveaway about subscribers and a bunch to sell more merch. The video is still up, and I think it crazy no one called him out on it
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?!😁👍
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?
Can't you take out a loan against the car or personal loan to pay the taxes/fees on the car? The taxes are way cheaper than the car itself... So i imagine your loan payments would be a fraction of the car loan itself.
But...my question is...what about the cash they give you to cover the taxes. Doesnt the government want to collect taxes on the cash too? So wouldnt the cash make the tax bill worse??
3:57 No point to mutiple entries. Lets say there are 20,000 tickets on offer, well, your first ticket has a 20,000 to 1 chance of winning, your second has a 19,999 to 1 chance as you've removed a ticket, etc etc
When you mod a car beyond its resale value and want to get rid of it and your money back. So you call one of these companies and they take a cut for the “giveaway”.
The cars already sold and they use it go push traffic to sell merch then when they make enough , they pick a winner "person that bought the car already "
TH-cam car giveaways probably kill. Even after making all the shirts, the profit margin has to be ok of they just keep doing it. 25-30$ shirts even if 20% of 2 million subs bought a shirt.....
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’ve entered many of these giveaways and I almost always .. Almost.. almost.. almost always lose ! 😒 🤨 I hate these giveaways, I end up poorer and without a car after it’s all set and done ! 🙄
I have entered a few but they were just for charities or a content creator i like was like "this giveaway will fund this project". Not expecting to win
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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.
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.
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?
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.
Na man definitely not an idiot... I somehow thought I could win doing the same thing and have done the mail ins on and off for like 5 years. I honestly have spent probably 5-6k on stamps over the years thinking I could get the odds in my favor. I estimate I have over 3 million dollars in rough equivalent merchandise sales. It's pointless and I have since walked away doing it, there's no way even half the envelopes I sent out were even counted. The whole giveaway industry needs more regulation given the blow up over the last 10 years. There have been so many scams I have witnessed and there's no recourse. Also companies like Marden Kane, American Sweepstakes Company, Compliance Sweepstakes services, and all others I have come across are shady as hell. Next to no outside communication, "priority systems" for selection... Aka an excel file , they become an administrator for a giveaway under companies that never giveaway the vehicle and they never address it, huge variance between free entry method values, etc etc. They sure do make a killing though and given the lack of oversight there is no way some of these companies haven't given a vehicle/prize or two to family members or friends. It's a wild West out here with these giveaways.
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.
Answer... Yes! Save your money lol
No, Invest!
@@AnotherYoubuenice try Diddy
nice try diddy
@@AnotherYoubuenice try diddy
Even the legit ones are essentially idiot tax...just like the lottery.
@richardharrold9736enjoy your tax. Lmao
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
Hell some TH-camrs 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
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.
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 TH-cam 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 TH-cam 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.
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?
The Drive bringing the heat lately with new content. Lovin it!
Love it. The content need
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.
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.
*_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
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 $200K out of the poors. Absurd.
@richardharrold9736example: Streetspeed717
He transformed all his content from car content to 90%raffle content/10% car content.
It is disappointing.
@@idokwatcher2062 can’t say it’s a scam if the car actually exists and you have a chance of winning it. As long as people want free things, car, giveaways, or raffles will never die. At least most of them cleaned up their act and you’re not stuck paying the tax bill and at least you get some merch that you actually like.
I worked for a company, and one day I came into the office and the owner, my boss had on all this 1320 merch. He told me about how he was probably going to win this fox body cause he spent like 1,000$ 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
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.
The guy from Poland was arrested this week for making illiegal giveaways with some taxing fraud.
What is the name of the TH-camr?
@@mercedesbenz6657 Budda
Budda@@mercedesbenz6657
High scam alert 🚨 that’s what my bank actually told me. They sell your information.
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.
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
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.
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
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 😂
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 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.
The Omaze charities were sketchy charities that I wouldn't give money too.
must enter by midnight🤣
What a coindince when one polish youtuber got arrested by car giveaways and money laundering and leading a criminal group
What was his name?
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.
The ticket prices pay for the car and profit. They almost always have a min amount of tickets sold. Plus this gives promotion.
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).
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
*The majority of the time unfortunately yes, they typically cherry pick the winner to be a family member or close friend while keeping the money strangers put into the giveaway*
I never cherry picked....but my items were worth like 50 bucks 😂
14:33 Oh...I thought every American's favorite pastime was suing lol
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.
Always been skeptical of these "giveaways". When Richard Rawlins starts "raffling" cars away on GMG that says it all.
now why they gotta put the black man on the thumbnail 😂😂😂😂
edit:
they changed the thumbnail to an orange 720s with a frunk full of dough 💀
Because this channel believes using an image of a Black Man in a thumbnail for a video that has content reflecting Negative behavior or Illegal activity "SCAMS" will garner them more views. Racism 101!!
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.
Car giveaways are gigantic scheme/scam. My blame, however, points at TH-cam, who shouldn’t be allowing them at all.
I could understand if the vehicle in question was being held by TH-cam 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 TH-camrs should have their TH-cam 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.
Yes.
I remember the Stradman's only giveaway and a kid answered the phone.
Like…THAT Stradman?? Lmao
I got an add for a timeshare before this video so yes they are.
Just buy something you want like a shirt or sticker , and your entered . Never buy hoping to win. Buy cause you like the product and if you win cool. I personally buy 1 shirt a month from 80eighty , cause some of their shirts are cool
It's a scam for you to pay to market them
How is there $38,000 taxes on a $40,000 car?
Because at the end of the year come tax time the estimated value of the prize and the cash they put on top is all stacked on top of whatever you're earned income was for that year thus a big Tax Fee is due
@@MRALEX9870exactly. Plus that model. S is an 89k car. So his income of that year plus the value of the prize so his taxes for that year is 38k.
I pay around that much in taxes a year 😢😢
The fact that almost every influencer is doing it should be all you need to know
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
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!
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.
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 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.
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.
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!
The Drive another awesome video, keep it up with great work bringing us awesome content like this 🤟😍🤟
I had tried more than once in the past, never won anything.
Then I thought about it. Do I really want that vehicle ? Usually not really.
So, instead I just buy a lottery ticket.
Yeah, I still never win, but if I did win millions I could buy whatever vehicle I want.
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.
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!!!
there’s also ppl who make you just straight up buy “raffle tickets” (the more you buy the higher chance you win type thing)
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 😢
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.
They're not "scams", they're lotteries. Two different things.
Except they give the car to their friend, who gives it back to them.
@@jmorris023 Do you have literally any proof.
@@tyler9703 coffeezilla did an in-depth investigation into online influencer giveaways and that their giveaways almost always went to related parties.
@jmorris023 I'm sure some do, but definitely not all. I know two local guys (one is my friend) who won cars from 80Eighty and it was totally legit.
Lmao when you said fest at Taco Bell for under $10 a taco bell ad interpreted the video
Scammers and the Government screwing up good times like always
If they ask you to "kindly" do anything, it's a scam.
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.
I’m glad that in Quebec Canada it’s actually completely illegal to organize this so people can’t fall for these “giveaways”
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.
Before I watch the video everyone should know one thing if they didn’t:
When you got tunercult and etc company doing “raffles” by purchasing a small product on their website for the “giveaway” they actually triple that profit margin vs than selling the car built/stock. Imagine 20k people buy $35 shirt, that’s $700k.
Edit: okay I watched the video LOL ^ but I’m leaving my two cents regardless have a great day
If I were a TH-camr, I rather give patron or member-exclusive real discounts on parts or accessories. It makes a lot of sense.
I’ve wondered this myself!
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
They're huge scams! Its a way to harvest all your personal details and to resell them.
Streetspeed 717 I entered one but hey it was a funny shirt that I kinda liked anyway. Anyway, there was a popup when I went to their site to get free entry. No mailing in something just give them the info that they were going to get anyway. He flies you out to get the car or appear on camera and then ships the car to you if you dont wanna drive it off. I didnt win but I got a shirt I was gonna buy anyway. never entered any others because that was the only shirt I liked.
I don't even like these when they are not a scam. It's almost always some super rich content creator preying on poor people's hope, or you have people like Dave Sparks who started his TH-cam channel promising to give away all his toys to grow his channel to only have one giveaway about subscribers and a bunch to sell more merch. The video is still up, and I think it crazy no one called him out on it
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 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?!😁👍
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.
Can't you take out a loan against the car or personal loan to pay the taxes/fees on the car?
The taxes are way cheaper than the car itself... So i imagine your loan payments would be a fraction of the car loan itself.
But...my question is...what about the cash they give you to cover the taxes. Doesnt the government want to collect taxes on the cash too? So wouldnt the cash make the tax bill worse??
I’ve always wondered this too
3:57
No point to mutiple entries. Lets say there are 20,000 tickets on offer, well, your first ticket has a 20,000 to 1 chance of winning, your second has a 19,999 to 1 chance as you've removed a ticket, etc etc
Wait cant you take the approx cash value and pay tax on that therefore avoid having to sell a car you owe taxes on?
I see no problem with TH-camrs doing it because we get to watch the build and then have a chance to win and the channels are car themed
When you mod a car beyond its resale value and want to get rid of it and your money back. So you call one of these companies and they take a cut for the “giveaway”.
“Too bad the IRS doesn’t allow happiness and gratitude as payment” 🤣😭😭
The cars already sold and they use it go push traffic to sell merch then when they make enough , they pick a winner "person that bought the car already "
You can only win if you have this much cash, live in or near this location and can get through x amount of loopholes.
TH-cam car giveaways probably kill.
Even after making all the shirts, the profit margin has to be ok of they just keep doing it. 25-30$ shirts even if 20% of 2 million subs bought a shirt.....
more like 2% buybthe merch
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.
Speed Society winner here!! White 2019 Cadillac CTS-V in my driveway rn!
I spent over 100$ (more entries) on a truck giveaway and still lost to ppl spending 30$….told me all I needed to know
There are plenty of legitimate competition companies in England. But as with all industries, there will be a small section who aren’t legitimate.
I’ve entered many of these giveaways and I almost always .. Almost.. almost.. almost always lose ! 😒
🤨 I hate these giveaways, I end up poorer and without a car after it’s all set and done ! 🙄
Amazing job guys, this was very helpful. I have spent a lot of funds trying to win a car. I guess i got some HW to do before i enter a contest.
I have entered a few but they were just for charities or a content creator i like was like "this giveaway will fund this project". Not expecting to win
So it's better to take the money (instead of a vehicle) to avoid taxes?
I like how there's so many comments saying people or others won.
Some offer winning the car or cash and or if you take the car, we’ll pay the taxes included in the raffle.
So design a machine that recreates hand written letters and get free cars?
Yes sir