I'm not your channels target demographic (62) but I love what your doing, please don't become jaded, stay, well stay you! I mentioned in one of your Unicorn Corvette videos(which is how I found your channel) that I want to use a car restoration to try to get in the head of my autistic grandson and hopefully take advantage of his focus on cars and connect on a level that allows me to teach him the skills involved. I'm in Canada and I'm searching for a corvette project here first because I've rebuilt a 76 from a basket case before. I know what is ahead in that journey, but there's a part of me that wants to share my love of that particular platform when he and I get to take it back on the road, and see if I can connect with him in the emotion of shared joy. Once I find a project I'll share the progress with you and your viewers.
Simple solution how to decide: if the sweepstakes talks more about the car that you could win, then it´s bad. When the emphasis is more on the charity, then there´s a bigger probability that it´s legit! We have a saying that the stupid get robbed even i churches!
I love the snarky comments. LOL! I actually just took down my facebook because of people harassing me about my views on the covid-19 virus. It is really hard to think outside of the box. It is super hard to call out people you think are doing something wrong. Keep preaching! People need to hear it and hopefully one day more people will open their eyes and understand.
the only thing you need to know about COVID-19 is that its all Trump's fault and the republican's fault. It actually being China's fault is a lie, the only way to fix this is more socialism and over-arching government control forever....and all hail Mighty and Virtuous Communist China.
A while ago I nearly got snookered into a club subscription to Restomods via a giveaway they were having. The prize was I believe $10,000 in cash as well as a cherry-looking 1969 Charger. Cut to today, and either they have the things in a warehouse someplace, or there really is no car and they're just blowing smoke, as roughly the same ad is being aired at the start of youtube videos, with the same car as a prize.
I've never entered a giveaway. I have no intention of being part of the band of people that supports this type of thing. I have donated to certain people that needed assistance. And once we figure out our finances after this pandemic. I will be making a donation directly to genius garage.
My local church/private school has a festival every Fall. Free to get in, the rides and foods cost money. They always raffle off a new BMW 3-Series or similar. They park the car there with dealer info, and you can check it out, etc. Tickets are $100, and they sell between 1,000-1,500 tickets. It’s a great way to raise money for the school. I usually buy a ticket, but dont win. But you DO see who wins! And you know where the extra money went. That’s the only car sweepstakes I ever participate in. (I put a 20 in the basket every Sunday without the chance of winning a car...)
Sadly I believe you are correct in your sense that the car sweepstakes are "cringy". Unfortunately IMO "core" values are somewhat watered down particularly where influenced on (anti) Social Media.
I lost track of how many channels I unfollowed because they just went to doing "giveaways" all the time. It became more about plugging their stupid shirts than the builds they do.
The while “charity” industry is cringy. A friends sister was an event planner for charities and the amount of money spent on some ridiculous event so rich people could feel like they were doing something good was unreal and the charity only received a pittance .
I totally get this, I always said with the internet in general, there are so many resources that show you, but never really show you what you want. They’ll teach you just enough that they make money of off. It’s people like you, people that are doing it because it’s their passion that make the internet worthwhile, so good for you, we all appreciate it. Keep it up, I’ve learned more from your channel, and other small channels with similar levels of passion, than any big company or channel.
They won’t work with you anyway no matter what you say but if you get big enough they will work with you regardless of what you’ve said! Wow, that’s perhaps the most insightful assertion I’ve heard all month! ✊🏽
People in general tend to be like crabs in a bucket, everyone scrambling to be first and nobody going anywhere... we need more people who think about the end goal not personal success... we need more Casey's we need more people who give a Fork, Thank You
Couldn't agree more I have volunteered for a car related program in my town since 2016, and our return to the community has been around 90% take a look at it it's called carFest in San Antonio! we fix 25 cars for folks in need and give away a car every 2 hours over the weekend we have high school and college auto students working with technicians and mechanics we set up a shop with 25 bays lifts alignment machine complete parts store everything in the Freeman expo hall in San Antonio Texas we also have car shows BBQ contest all kinds of stuff for the kids and the entire thing is completely free to the community
In the video game world, the big name in charity is called Humble Bundle. It offers bundles of different video games and you name your own price, the more you give the more "tiers" of games you unlock. then when you checkout, you have three sliders. A slider for the Game developer, A slider for Humble Bundle, And a slider for whatever charity the bundle is for. and you use these sliders to set where you want your money to go. even up to 100% to charity.
Hey I’ve always wondered about these things since I started seeing them like crazy about 4 or 5 yrs ago, and I always suspected this was the case but I enjoyed your honest & straightforward rant! 👍
Thanks that needed to be said. Especially the latest car giveaway Richard is always been a used car salesman looking to screw someone over his latest is even worse. Nice job
What if you and genius garage build a car to do a sweepstakes lottery thing so that that money actually goes to the right things, the students can build a cool car, and someone gets said cool car?
I'm not sure who you are but I salute you my friend I'm very well aware of this raffle scam that these TH-camrs have been doing, it keep doing what you're doing, God bless you sir...
I became interested with genius garage after this video and I saw in the website that it gives students internship opportunities in motorsport and aerospace fields. Hope this program can become a global thing since in some countries getting those kind of experiences is quite hard to get. Would love to apply if it were to be available here in Indonesia
Awesome content. You've gained a subscriber! Thank you addressing this issue. In addition to this PSA, I don't register for retail registry, get discounts ect... Went to a great discount home decor store and was offered 10% off to sign up for continued discount. I looked at my wife and replied, "no, my information is worth more than that". Cashier then scanned my 2 items, and announced, "by signing up with todays purchases you will save $5.00 and something cents". I chuckled and then smiled. Kindly answered, "no thank you". Without skipping a beat, I tapped my credit card and went my merry way. My question to myself, along with what I learned in todays video, by using this credit card, how much information did I give away even though I didn't sign up for anything?
It's a good service to educate the public on what these sweepstakes are about.I think people are blinded by the cars on the internet and think they gonna win one all your doing is making some corporation rich and a head of a so called charity rich......
Hey Casey, I agree with you 100% on these sweepstakes scams, some of them anyway. I found that all it gets is on mailing lists which they sell to other taxonomy companies that end up spamming and mailing you bs entry forms and advertisements. You should change your YT channel name to "Rebel with a Cause". Cheers!
Omaze has tempted me several times.. especially with the latest Porsche deals but I know it's too good to be true and someone has to pay the price for it, that's why I never bothered with those.
Another one that gets people are the coin funnels that are in malls or arcades, read the card on them. They are not for charity, the are profit machines where you are simply giving someone your money for nothing. Sweepstakes light.
I shared your last video on repo and I can appreciate this one as well. It’s gross and your doing the right thing. Do not grow weary in well doing for in due time you will reap your harvest!
I will share a secret with everyone. If you read the fine print on any car give away sweepstakes(TH-cam ect). Everyone can enter for free by sending a 8x10 or a 5x10 card with your name on it to the said address.There is also no limit on how many times you can mail in a entry. TH-camrs some times make it hard to find this information. But by law it has to be there.
Casey there's an old saying "Truth always appears to be lies to the sinner" & alot of people won't like you telling the truth because they know they're doing wrong.
Hey Casey, first time viewing your channel here, I appreciate you teaching me and other people around the world about these scams and being able to speak up about these ridiculous companies and influencers. I'm really curious about the things you do that teach kids and make the world a better place. If you can enlightened me on the things you do I would appreciate it and be more willing to subscribe to your channel and help out make the world a better place in any way I can. Thank you again for your advice.
Yup. That said, I saw one, it was for a hospital or something, and the doctors themselves put the time in to build a kit car and then raffle it off, and that one appeared to be more legit than the run-of-the-mill ones out there.
Since I don't have cable anymore the only sweepstakes advert I've seen is one on Facebook for nice looking restored muscle and pony cars. Other than that I see StreetSpeed717's car giveaways all the time but that's because I watch his YT channel almost every day. While he has given away a wide assortment a vehicles from a C5 vette plus one modification (winner chose a procharger), to a modified 2012 Jeep Wrangler 4-door, to a $80,000 dollar modified C7 GS vette (the current most expensive). He just gave away an older lifted Duramax in brodozer configuration, and the new giveaway that just started is an older Hellcat Challenger. He always does the builds/modifications on his channel. He even did a video breaking down the cost/profit of doing the giveaways. Which I think it was based on the C7 GS Vette and him and his business partner only made about $10,000 each.
You must not read the fine print, “no purchase necessary, purchase will not increase your chances of winning” you can mail in to sweepstakes for free n get just as many chances to win as anyone else that is paying. Most have a cap, the last I read was 900 entries per participant regardless of entry method. You can send you entries in all by mail, for free, minus the cost of stationary and postage, which are a lot cheaper than purchasing merch or entries. Most sweepstakes also do a 3x and 2x entry period so your mail ins would count more you could get 900 entries in a 3x month in you send 1 per day. Most count 10 entries per 1 mail in
I see the deals where you can send $20 and get one chance to win a New Mustang and a Classic Restored Mustang. They don't tell you how many chances there are to win. You probably have a similar chance of winning the lottery.
My parents told me in the 80's Hand-A-Thons were a thing. Stuart Toyota in South Florida in 1986 had one, pay 100 dollars put your hand on the car and have a chance to win ect... so my dad put his hand on this 2WD Toyota Pickup and yea 4 days later he ended up in the back of an ambulance and he was a runner up. Someone asked my dad how he was and my dad asked what he was doing and they said you're trying to win this truck, meanwhile, my mom had it traded in already on a funny enough MR2... and my dad was like I don't want this truck I have a truck and pulled his hand off...
Buy now to enter and win! Businesses sell their products and get exposure. I've always wondered where they get the winning Joe and what goes on after the cameras stop rolling. Charities are also businesses sadly
This sounds like a good business idea...they are all making money and a "charity" that would otherwise not get a penny is now getting something..In my book something is better than nothing
Sounds like everyone is winning. Charities are getting more than they would be if nothing was being done. Someone gets a cool ride, and someone is making money for putting it all together. The social media person gets their attention. At least they're cutting the charities in because most people would be happy to participate with 0% going to charity.
It never really thought that the car sweepstakes was to make money. What you said makes total sense and I honestly thought some of these ppl found a loop hole to get tax credits on cannabis money lol (since the cannabis is still illegal on a federal level). You just gained a subscriber!
Dude the first time I saw one of my channels advertise Omaze, I cringed so hard. I seriously lost respect for the channel and honestly don't even watch much any more. I can totally understand selling out. Gotta make a living but those sweepstakes are too much.
wait, 15% I was expecting like... 1%. Really i've been thinking of entering them because they were covering the taxes so I had a chance of getting a car and not dealing with the major problem of winning a cool car.
The odds of actually getting the car are so astronomically low that you'd be better off going into the mountains in the hopes you start another gold rush
I agree completely! I think the underlying issue is that people are interested in instant gratification. That's how these schemes arise. You, on the other hand talk about how long it has taken you to get to this point. The difference is that you are doing what you love and these guys are doing it to make a quick buck. On the side note, I love your rants. If you are ever in Cleveland area, I'd like to buy you a beer.
Although kinda cringy, agreed. These charities are getting "some" money they wouldn't otherwise have. This from an even SMALLER influencer than Genius Garage. So I'm ok since no one is forced to give and the sweepstakes organizer does have some risk and the charity has zero risk. Maybe it's not as we think it should be but it's better than nothing I would think (from the charity point of view). Great content my man!
These influencers are probably getting paid to shill this garbage and the company is using them like you said. Telling them things like you will get a larger audience, likes subs whatever thusly make more money. Of course none of that happens for the influencer but the company is making money off their contacts/viewer base. I smell shit in a lot of this non profit stuff.
I was also surprised to hear 15%, and not closer to 1-5%! Just as I was initially surprised to learn that the March of dimes only gives 10% to actually affect any sort of actual change. Meaning 90% of each dollar they receive just goes to the organization! There’s a real difference in those types of things, and what you are doing here. Your motives are altruistic Casey, because you actually DO care. There’s a reason I have subscribed to your channel and tapped the bell. Also, I was “all in” from the left lane episode 😊. Someone really needed to a call that one out. Thank you for that. Simply put, I’m not seeing the sort of things you are doing being done really anywhere else in social media. Don’t get me wrong, I do love to be entertained and informed via a plethora of other sources as well. I’m hopeful that what you are doing here does gain in reach and influence, and isn’t overshadowed by the others. The problem I’m seeing currently is what sells vs what doesn’t sell as well from a marketing standpoint. Like you said, search engine optimization, and generating buzz, etc. It makes me worry about people in general. Then again, a lot of things are cause for concern with the overwhelming majority of people these days. Perhaps our current state of events will be a great opportunity for a lot of people to take inventory, and really assess what is important. But then again, I’m probably being overly optimistic. At any rate, if you can keep sustaining with what you already have going, and it is working, then maybe don’t tinker with any of it. In the meantime, I massively respect you for being unwilling to “sell out”
The only thing wrong with that is when it's the Trump Foundation, where the people running it take all the money from it (as detailed in the lawsuit resulting in it being shut down). Tony Hawk promotes his foundation all the time, but you also see where the money is going int he end.
I give to Charity but I research the charities that I support. I don't give through charities that force employees to give part of their paycheck so they can keep their job. That is like Coercion on a grand scale. They also don't let you direct your donation fairly. If you designate money to say Boy Scouts They deduct that amount from the overall amount going to that charity. Give to charity but be careful about it.
I gotta disagree on some points with this. So let's break it down you have A: Audience (the people you want to reach and have participate in the sweepstakes) B: Promoter (the social media celebrity) C: Sweepstakes Company D: Charity (that works with the sweepstakes company) Now the Charity either reaches out to the Sweepstakes company or the sweepstakes company reaches out to the charity. The end goal is still the same, for the sweepstakes company to raise funds on behalf of the charity; funds the charity is having difficulties doing. So the sweepstakes company uses a social media influence to get the message across, it's the easiest way to reach alot of people. Now the term influencer has a negative connotation but I'm sure many here will agree there are many wholesome automotive youtube channels(we're clearly talking about youtubers and it's a car giveaway it makes sense to advocate on car based channels). So we have the influencer advocating for the car giveaway on his/her channel as a way of both building their channel and/or raising profits.(neither of which are neccesarily wrong). The funds are raised the car is given away and in return for setting up and running the sweepstakes the sweepstakes company takes a percentage as profit, because well, that's what they do as a company. The charity also receives funds. So where is the harm here? The sweepstakes company isnt a charity it operates for profit. The influencer got paid and regardless got their followers to indirectly donate to a charity. And a audience member received a car. If the charity doesn't choose to be named in the giveaway then that is on the charity itself. And if the sweepstakes company wouldn't allow the charity to be presented in the giveaway the charity is free to find a alternative sweepstakes company to use.
Is there a place on the net where a person can see how much a charity actually receives from the sweepstakes? I have bought tickets for some of these years ago, before the "influence's" became a thing. When they started becoming main stream I stopped participating. Thank you for being MY car hero.
I get where you are coming from for sure. The social media influencers promoting this stuff are getting money from these sites like “Omaze”. They aren’t doing it for clout. If the charities were not happy with the ratio of the money split they wouldn’t do it. Yes there are better ways to give to charity that are more direct and worth while. I for one do not give to charity because I work almost paycheck to paycheck, but if I give $10 and get put into a hat to win a supercar and some of the money goes to charity as well. Who loses? It makes car people more likely to give up some of our precious build budget where other wise we wouldn’t even think about it.
Oh heck, look at Goodwill. They pay out such a low percentage to their cause. And they do it with free stuff. Look at all these things. It's a better percentage than Goodwill that's for dang sure. I think a 30 10 60 split would be better and make them disclose like most foundations do. It's not as charitable at all.
Real talk for a second you need to focus on real content. You are a fantastic storyteller you are a good driver and a good mechanic, in short you are an interesting person. Don't just make videos ranting about things the average car guy doesn't care about. This is meant to be constructive and make your Channel better, I want to see you do really well on youtube, keep at it.
Who cares if they are doing it to make themselves more famous, of course that's what they're doing. Its a win-win, they get more money, omaze gets more money, and charity gets more money. It's better than a valvoline sponsorship or whatever where its just companies making money (not that there's anything wrong with that).
Have you noticed lately that behavior of “the influencers” whether they be a group, company, politician, political group, or “celebrity” (I use quotes because many of these people are famous only because they look good and have no other talents or abilities to justify their fame) seem to be promoting their own agendas with an heavy undercurrent of desperation? It is as if they must make all the money they can, as fast as possible before either the world catches on to how completely phony they really are, find out what they have really been hiding, and their career or business fizzles or, alternatively, they know something about the future that the rest of us don’t (...and it ain’t good news) that is forcing them to make as much money as they can, as fast as they can, right now ... while they still can?
Think about it they don't post your chances of winning even through out averages like a lottery does which it basically is. Also 70% over head lets them pay how ever made people they want and crazy salaries which they don't seem to post ether. If you take two seconds to think about it you know someone or many people are getting rich and it isn't the charity. Donate locate to somewhere where you can be involved in the community.
MORE OMEGA CAR CONTENT!! I’m not yelling but please, we need something new and fresh. The tyrants running the world now are being exposed through all this government overreach right now!
If you enter the Wheels Through Time giveaway 100% of the money goes to the Wheels Through Time Museum. I don't care that I'll never win because I like the Wheels Through Time Museum. When museums run their own raffles I enter because I like museums.
Dude ive been seeing these give away's from omaze everywhere. Its always a nice ass NSX, im like.. HOW? How are you making that money back on TShirt sales? They really are? Thats insane.
They aren't, they're making it back on the sweepstakes. The one I've been getting the most ads for is their McLaren GT with $20,000 cash. That's $230,000 in expenses. Entries start at $10 and go up to $100. At the $10 mark, they have to sell 23,000 entries to break even. That's not that many, considering many of the TH-cam channels and influencers they partner with have individual followings in the millions. If 50,000 people buy at the $10 mark, and we all know that not everyone goes for the cheapest option, then they'd be looking at more than a 100% profit. Of course, a decent percentage goes to the charity in question, but I'd be willing to bet they sell well over 100,000 for each one
I've always found those omaze giveaways shady AF, giving away Mclarens, Teslas and whatever goes north of 100k USD. The lack of videos promoting the winners makes me wonder if this is really working for the greater good.
@@CaseyPutsch The world is just so much emptier without seeing a Pterosaur flying out of the back of a Viper. Things I never knew I wanted to see until some guy named Casey became the worst kind of petrolhead enabler.
That's why I stopped giving to the United Way, take a look at their books... The Better Business Bureau's standards, published in 2003 by the BBB Wise Giving Alliance, recommend that at least 65 percent of the nonprofit's total expenses should be for program expenses. The nonprofit's total expenses should not include more than 35 percent for fundraising.
I've had to tell my mom that a lot. She's been trying to help this Russian company get into the American market and the amount of scams I've had to call out to her is painful
I’ve almost fallen for these things. Almost bought stuff.. but damn, something inside me just says “what are you doing.. stop” Also, I just found your channel and I can’t believe this isn’t a bigger channel than it already is. I’ll be sharing and subscribing. Love the honesty brother. Damn I’m glad I found this channel!
Meh.. I play to win. When I don't... more power to them. I'm not on the business side of this shit so it doesn't make me cringe. I spend a few bucks on legit stuff like 80Eighty and hope for a new ride.
They make a huge profit and it's just a lie. If it says more entries don't improve your odds it's a scam. Some TH-camrs have done the scam them themselves which its hilarious when the dude an hour away won the car
Casey will never fit in with the elites because his intentions are pure. Keep up the good fight brother.
Omaze.. 👀
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Maxxas Crow too true!
I'm not your channels target demographic (62) but I love what your doing, please don't become jaded, stay, well stay you! I mentioned in one of your Unicorn Corvette videos(which is how I found your channel) that I want to use a car restoration to try to get in the head of my autistic grandson and hopefully take advantage of his focus on cars and connect on a level that allows me to teach him the skills involved. I'm in Canada and I'm searching for a corvette project here first because I've rebuilt a 76 from a basket case before. I know what is ahead in that journey, but there's a part of me that wants to share my love of that particular platform when he and I get to take it back on the road, and see if I can connect with him in the emotion of shared joy. Once I find a project I'll share the progress with you and your viewers.
Carl C Mad respect. take care man.
Simple solution how to decide: if the sweepstakes talks more about the car that you could win, then it´s bad. When the emphasis is more on the charity, then there´s a bigger probability that it´s legit!
We have a saying that the stupid get robbed even i churches!
Great point!
Casey is a force for good in the world.
Be more like Casey.
I love the snarky comments. LOL! I actually just took down my facebook because of people harassing me about my views on the covid-19 virus. It is really hard to think outside of the box. It is super hard to call out people you think are doing something wrong. Keep preaching! People need to hear it and hopefully one day more people will open their eyes and understand.
the only thing you need to know about COVID-19 is that its all Trump's fault and the republican's fault. It actually being China's fault is a lie, the only way to fix this is more socialism and over-arching government control forever....and all hail Mighty and Virtuous Communist China.
A while ago I nearly got snookered into a club subscription to Restomods via a giveaway they were having.
The prize was I believe $10,000 in cash as well as a cherry-looking 1969 Charger.
Cut to today, and either they have the things in a warehouse someplace, or there really is no car and they're just blowing smoke, as roughly the same ad is being aired at the start of youtube videos, with the same car as a prize.
I've never entered a giveaway. I have no intention of being part of the band of people that supports this type of thing. I have donated to certain people that needed assistance. And once we figure out our finances after this pandemic. I will be making a donation directly to genius garage.
My local church/private school has a festival every Fall. Free to get in, the rides and foods cost money. They always raffle off a new BMW 3-Series or similar. They park the car there with dealer info, and you can check it out, etc. Tickets are $100, and they sell between 1,000-1,500 tickets. It’s a great way to raise money for the school. I usually buy a ticket, but dont win. But you DO see who wins! And you know where the extra money went. That’s the only car sweepstakes I ever participate in. (I put a 20 in the basket every Sunday without the chance of winning a car...)
That's not actually a sweepstakes, but a legal lottery.
Sadly I believe you are correct in your sense that the car sweepstakes are "cringy". Unfortunately IMO "core" values are somewhat watered down particularly where influenced on (anti) Social Media.
You have the most character of all auto you tubers.
Thank you for not promoting garbage.
I lost track of how many channels I unfollowed because they just went to doing "giveaways" all the time. It became more about plugging their stupid shirts than the builds they do.
Great video, I always cringe when someone starts giving away anything.
Like the old sayin, "Nothing is Free"
The while “charity” industry is cringy. A friends sister was an event planner for charities and the amount of money spent on some ridiculous event so rich people could feel like they were doing something good was unreal and the charity only received a pittance .
Absolutely true
Casey, love what you're doing for the community and that you dont let the other half get away with their b.s.! Thank you for all you do!
I totally get this, I always said with the internet in general, there are so many resources that show you, but never really show you what you want. They’ll teach you just enough that they make money of off. It’s people like you, people that are doing it because it’s their passion that make the internet worthwhile, so good for you, we all appreciate it. Keep it up, I’ve learned more from your channel, and other small channels with similar levels of passion, than any big company or channel.
Depending on which charity makes them look the best and gets them the most attention... bingo. It’s disgusting.
Yep..
They won’t work with you anyway no matter what you say but if you get big enough they will work with you regardless of what you’ve said! Wow, that’s perhaps the most insightful assertion I’ve heard all month! ✊🏽
People in general tend to be like crabs in a bucket, everyone scrambling to be first and nobody going anywhere... we need more people who think about the end goal not personal success... we need more Casey's we need more people who give a Fork, Thank You
Couldn't agree more I have volunteered for a car related program in my town since 2016, and our return to the community has been around 90% take a look at it it's called carFest in San Antonio! we fix 25 cars for folks in need and give away a car every 2 hours over the weekend we have high school and college auto students working with technicians and mechanics we set up a shop with 25 bays lifts alignment machine complete parts store everything in the Freeman expo hall in San Antonio Texas we also have car shows BBQ contest all kinds of stuff for the kids and the entire thing is completely free to the community
In the video game world, the big name in charity is called Humble Bundle. It offers bundles of different video games and you name your own price, the more you give the more "tiers" of games you unlock. then when you checkout, you have three sliders. A slider for the Game developer, A slider for Humble Bundle, And a slider for whatever charity the bundle is for. and you use these sliders to set where you want your money to go. even up to 100% to charity.
Hey I’ve always wondered about these things since I started seeing them like crazy about 4 or 5 yrs ago, and I always suspected this was the case but I enjoyed your honest & straightforward rant! 👍
Thanks that needed to be said. Especially the latest car giveaway Richard is always been a used car salesman looking to screw someone over his latest is even worse. Nice job
What if you and genius garage build a car to do a sweepstakes lottery thing so that that money actually goes to the right things, the students can build a cool car, and someone gets said cool car?
You’re totally on point! The charity situation has been the same for a long time before the internet and influencers tbh.
I'm not sure who you are but I salute you my friend I'm very well aware of this raffle scam that these TH-camrs have been doing, it keep doing what you're doing, God bless you sir...
I became interested with genius garage after this video and I saw in the website that it gives students internship opportunities in motorsport and aerospace fields. Hope this program can become a global thing since in some countries getting those kind of experiences is quite hard to get. Would love to apply if it were to be available here in Indonesia
Awesome content. You've gained a subscriber! Thank you addressing this issue. In addition to this PSA, I don't register for retail registry, get discounts ect... Went to a great discount home decor store and was offered 10% off to sign up for continued discount. I looked at my wife and replied, "no, my information is worth more than that". Cashier then scanned my 2 items, and announced, "by signing up with todays purchases you will save $5.00 and something cents". I chuckled and then smiled. Kindly answered, "no thank you". Without skipping a beat, I tapped my credit card and went my merry way. My question to myself, along with what I learned in todays video, by using this credit card, how much information did I give away even though I didn't sign up for anything?
I’m honored!
It's a good service to educate the public on what these sweepstakes are about.I think people are blinded by the cars on the internet and think they gonna win one all your doing is making some corporation rich and a head of a so called charity rich......
Hey Casey, I agree with you 100% on these sweepstakes scams, some of them anyway. I found that all it gets is on mailing lists which they sell to other taxonomy companies that end up spamming and mailing you bs entry forms and advertisements. You should change your YT channel name to "Rebel with a Cause". Cheers!
I might!
Omaze has tempted me several times.. especially with the latest Porsche deals but I know it's too good to be true and someone has to pay the price for it, that's why I never bothered with those.
Another one that gets people are the coin funnels that are in malls or arcades, read the card on them. They are not for charity, the are profit machines where you are simply giving someone your money for nothing. Sweepstakes light.
If there’s one thing I can’t stand it’s all the noise noise noise noise!! But seriously you have a great point
HOMERUN CASEY ! Every single word you were knocking it out of the park.
I shared your last video on repo and I can appreciate this one as well. It’s gross and your doing the right thing. Do not grow weary in well doing for in due time you will reap your harvest!
I will share a secret with everyone. If you read the fine print on any car give away sweepstakes(TH-cam ect). Everyone can enter for free by sending a 8x10 or a 5x10 card with your name on it to the said address.There is also no limit on how many times you can mail in a entry. TH-camrs some times make it hard to find this information. But by law it has to be there.
Don't forget they're also getting your info, which they can easily sell on the back end for more money.
Casey there's an old saying "Truth always appears to be lies to the sinner" & alot of people won't like you telling the truth because they know they're doing wrong.
Hey Casey, first time viewing your channel here, I appreciate you teaching me and other people around the world about these scams and being able to speak up about these ridiculous companies and influencers. I'm really curious about the things you do that teach kids and make the world a better place. If you can enlightened me on the things you do I would appreciate it and be more willing to subscribe to your channel and help out make the world a better place in any way I can. Thank you again for your advice.
I love the dirty knees. Casey is real!
Just a working man like so many!
Respect for you making this vid.
Its all about business and making big money. I see at a new one every few days. love your channel.
Yup. That said, I saw one, it was for a hospital or something, and the doctors themselves put the time in to build a kit car and then raffle it off, and that one appeared to be more legit than the run-of-the-mill ones out there.
Since I don't have cable anymore the only sweepstakes advert I've seen is one on Facebook for nice looking restored muscle and pony cars. Other than that I see StreetSpeed717's car giveaways all the time but that's because I watch his YT channel almost every day. While he has given away a wide assortment a vehicles from a C5 vette plus one modification (winner chose a procharger), to a modified 2012 Jeep Wrangler 4-door, to a $80,000 dollar modified C7 GS vette (the current most expensive). He just gave away an older lifted Duramax in brodozer configuration, and the new giveaway that just started is an older Hellcat Challenger. He always does the builds/modifications on his channel. He even did a video breaking down the cost/profit of doing the giveaways. Which I think it was based on the C7 GS Vette and him and his business partner only made about $10,000 each.
You must not read the fine print, “no purchase necessary, purchase will not increase your chances of winning” you can mail in to sweepstakes for free n get just as many chances to win as anyone else that is paying. Most have a cap, the last I read was 900 entries per participant regardless of entry method. You can send you entries in all by mail, for free, minus the cost of stationary and postage, which are a lot cheaper than purchasing merch or entries. Most sweepstakes also do a 3x and 2x entry period so your mail ins would count more you could get 900 entries in a 3x month in you send 1 per day. Most count 10 entries per 1 mail in
I see the deals where you can send $20 and get one chance to win a New Mustang and a Classic Restored Mustang. They don't tell you how many chances there are to win. You probably have a similar chance of winning the lottery.
My parents told me in the 80's Hand-A-Thons were a thing. Stuart Toyota in South Florida in 1986 had one, pay 100 dollars put your hand on the car and have a chance to win ect... so my dad put his hand on this 2WD Toyota Pickup and yea 4 days later he ended up in the back of an ambulance and he was a runner up. Someone asked my dad how he was and my dad asked what he was doing and they said you're trying to win this truck, meanwhile, my mom had it traded in already on a funny enough MR2... and my dad was like I don't want this truck I have a truck and pulled his hand off...
You’re on point it’s a profit thing..
Buy now to enter and win! Businesses sell their products and get exposure. I've always wondered where they get the winning Joe and what goes on after the cameras stop rolling. Charities are also businesses sadly
This sounds like a good business idea...they are all making money and a "charity" that would otherwise not get a penny is now getting something..In my book something is better than nothing
Sounds like everyone is winning. Charities are getting more than they would be if nothing was being done. Someone gets a cool ride, and someone is making money for putting it all together. The social media person gets their attention. At least they're cutting the charities in because most people would be happy to participate with 0% going to charity.
It never really thought that the car sweepstakes was to make money. What you said makes total sense and I honestly thought some of these ppl found a loop hole to get tax credits on cannabis money lol (since the cannabis is still illegal on a federal level).
You just gained a subscriber!
Dude the first time I saw one of my channels advertise Omaze, I cringed so hard. I seriously lost respect for the channel and honestly don't even watch much any more. I can totally understand selling out. Gotta make a living but those sweepstakes are too much.
wait, 15% I was expecting like... 1%.
Really i've been thinking of entering them because they were covering the taxes so I had a chance of getting a car and not dealing with the major problem of winning a cool car.
The odds of actually getting the car are so astronomically low that you'd be better off going into the mountains in the hopes you start another gold rush
I agree completely! I think the underlying issue is that people are interested in instant gratification. That's how these schemes arise. You, on the other hand talk about how long it has taken you to get to this point. The difference is that you are doing what you love and these guys are doing it to make a quick buck. On the side note, I love your rants. If you are ever in Cleveland area, I'd like to buy you a beer.
You get a car, and you get a car...
Although kinda cringy, agreed. These charities are getting "some" money they wouldn't otherwise have. This from an even SMALLER influencer than Genius Garage. So I'm ok since no one is forced to give and the sweepstakes organizer does have some risk and the charity has zero risk. Maybe it's not as we think it should be but it's better than nothing I would think (from the charity point of view). Great content my man!
These influencers are probably getting paid to shill this garbage and the company is using them like you said.
Telling them things like you will get a larger audience, likes subs whatever thusly make more money.
Of course none of that happens for the influencer but the company is making money off their contacts/viewer base.
I smell shit in a lot of this non profit stuff.
love it!!!!! you are right on! as soon as anyone gets a little fame the sharks start circling!!! and that's just what they are.... sharks!
I was also surprised to hear 15%, and not closer to 1-5%! Just as I was initially surprised to learn that the March of dimes only gives 10% to actually affect any sort of actual change. Meaning 90% of each dollar they receive just goes to the organization! There’s a real difference in those types of things, and what you are doing here. Your motives are altruistic Casey, because you actually DO care. There’s a reason I have subscribed to your channel and tapped the bell. Also, I was “all in” from the left lane episode 😊. Someone really needed to a call that one out. Thank you for that. Simply put, I’m not seeing the sort of things you are doing being done really anywhere else in social media. Don’t get me wrong, I do love to be entertained and informed via a plethora of other sources as well. I’m hopeful that what you are doing here does gain in reach and influence, and isn’t overshadowed by the others. The problem I’m seeing currently is what sells vs what doesn’t sell as well from a marketing standpoint. Like you said, search engine optimization, and generating buzz, etc. It makes me worry about people in general. Then again, a lot of things are cause for concern with the overwhelming majority of people these days. Perhaps our current state of events will be a great opportunity for a lot of people to take inventory, and really assess what is important. But then again, I’m probably being overly optimistic. At any rate, if you can keep sustaining with what you already have going, and it is working, then maybe don’t tinker with any of it. In the meantime, I massively respect you for being unwilling to “sell out”
What bugs me is when a "celebrity" is raffling a vehicle or lunch with them and the proceeds are going to their own foundation.
The only thing wrong with that is when it's the Trump Foundation, where the people running it take all the money from it (as detailed in the lawsuit resulting in it being shut down). Tony Hawk promotes his foundation all the time, but you also see where the money is going int he end.
ive never seen an omaze car/cash "giveaway" and not viewed it as anything other than a push for merch purchases.
I give to Charity but I research the charities that I support. I don't give through charities that force employees to give part of their paycheck so they can keep their job. That is like Coercion on a grand scale. They also don't let you direct your donation fairly. If you designate money to say Boy Scouts They deduct that amount from the overall amount going to that charity. Give to charity but be careful about it.
I gotta disagree on some points with this. So let's break it down you have
A: Audience (the people you want to reach and have participate in the sweepstakes)
B: Promoter (the social media celebrity)
C: Sweepstakes Company
D: Charity (that works with the sweepstakes company)
Now the Charity either reaches out to the Sweepstakes company or the sweepstakes company reaches out to the charity. The end goal is still the same, for the sweepstakes company to raise funds on behalf of the charity; funds the charity is having difficulties doing. So the sweepstakes company uses a social media influence to get the message across, it's the easiest way to reach alot of people. Now the term influencer has a negative connotation but I'm sure many here will agree there are many wholesome automotive youtube channels(we're clearly talking about youtubers and it's a car giveaway it makes sense to advocate on car based channels). So we have the influencer advocating for the car giveaway on his/her channel as a way of both building their channel and/or raising profits.(neither of which are neccesarily wrong). The funds are raised the car is given away and in return for setting up and running the sweepstakes the sweepstakes company takes a percentage as profit, because well, that's what they do as a company. The charity also receives funds. So where is the harm here? The sweepstakes company isnt a charity it operates for profit. The influencer got paid and regardless got their followers to indirectly donate to a charity. And a audience member received a car.
If the charity doesn't choose to be named in the giveaway then that is on the charity itself. And if the sweepstakes company wouldn't allow the charity to be presented in the giveaway the charity is free to find a alternative sweepstakes company to use.
Is there a place on the net where a person can see how much a charity actually receives from the sweepstakes? I have bought tickets for some of these years ago, before the "influence's" became a thing. When they started becoming main stream I stopped participating. Thank you for being MY car hero.
Omaze-ing..=..discust-ing
I like what you stand for and how you have set about trying to make a difference.
TMobile had a Tesla sweepstakes but we're reluctant to admit someone had won months later.
I just enter for free. Generally they talk about more about the product than the charity.
One reason I dont give my money to random charity
You put the NRG steering wheel as your profile picture! I liked the old one better put this is cool too because it matches your car.
Ha! You’re right, it does match. Yeah, me too, but I thought something a little more official would be good.
They want your information for free so they can sell it multiple times
I get where you are coming from for sure. The social media influencers promoting this stuff are getting money from these sites like “Omaze”. They aren’t doing it for clout. If the charities were not happy with the ratio of the money split they wouldn’t do it. Yes there are better ways to give to charity that are more direct and worth while. I for one do not give to charity because I work almost paycheck to paycheck, but if I give $10 and get put into a hat to win a supercar and some of the money goes to charity as well. Who loses? It makes car people more likely to give up some of our precious build budget where other wise we wouldn’t even think about it.
Oh heck, look at Goodwill. They pay out such a low percentage to their cause. And they do it with free stuff. Look at all these things. It's a better percentage than Goodwill that's for dang sure. I think a 30 10 60 split would be better and make them disclose like most foundations do. It's not as charitable at all.
Great video Casey, if only someone did what you did in the UK and my boy would have something to aim for. Keep up the good work
Real talk for a second you need to focus on real content. You are a fantastic storyteller you are a good driver and a good mechanic, in short you are an interesting person. Don't just make videos ranting about things the average car guy doesn't care about. This is meant to be constructive and make your Channel better, I want to see you do really well on youtube, keep at it.
Who cares if they are doing it to make themselves more famous, of course that's what they're doing. Its a win-win, they get more money, omaze gets more money, and charity gets more money. It's better than a valvoline sponsorship or whatever where its just companies making money (not that there's anything wrong with that).
some don't even give charities or charities aren't involved. winning a car is nice though
Have you noticed lately that behavior of “the influencers” whether they be a group, company, politician, political group, or “celebrity” (I use quotes because many of these people are famous only because they look good and have no other talents or abilities to justify their fame) seem to be promoting their own agendas with an heavy undercurrent of desperation? It is as if they must make all the money they can, as fast as possible before either the world catches on to how completely phony they really are, find out what they have really been hiding, and their career or business fizzles or, alternatively, they know something about the future that the rest of us don’t (...and it ain’t good news) that is forcing them to make as much money as they can, as fast as they can, right now ... while they still can?
The more you rant Casey (which I do approve of) the more I see TH-cam as Gotham City 😂
totaly agree bros again !!
Casey I know that if someone wants to work with you they know that only truth and honesty will be tolerated.
It’s getting all rediculous and it makes me nauseous
Think about it they don't post your chances of winning even through out averages like a lottery does which it basically is. Also 70% over head lets them pay how ever made people they want and crazy salaries which they don't seem to post ether. If you take two seconds to think about it you know someone or many people are getting rich and it isn't the charity. Donate locate to somewhere where you can be involved in the community.
Me watching this video after entering in like 10 sweepstakes, currently regretting life decisions🤦♂️
MORE OMEGA CAR CONTENT!! I’m not yelling but please, we need something new and fresh. The tyrants running the world now are being exposed through all this government overreach right now!
Ok... I was waiting to give a student the chance to work on it and learn from it too. Coming soon!
yup bud you nail it bud
If you enter the Wheels Through Time giveaway 100% of the money goes to the Wheels Through Time Museum. I don't care that I'll never win because I like the Wheels Through Time Museum. When museums run their own raffles I enter because I like museums.
Dude ive been seeing these give away's from omaze everywhere. Its always a nice ass NSX, im like.. HOW? How are you making that money back on TShirt sales? They really are? Thats insane.
They aren't, they're making it back on the sweepstakes. The one I've been getting the most ads for is their McLaren GT with $20,000 cash. That's $230,000 in expenses. Entries start at $10 and go up to $100. At the $10 mark, they have to sell 23,000 entries to break even. That's not that many, considering many of the TH-cam channels and influencers they partner with have individual followings in the millions. If 50,000 people buy at the $10 mark, and we all know that not everyone goes for the cheapest option, then they'd be looking at more than a 100% profit. Of course, a decent percentage goes to the charity in question, but I'd be willing to bet they sell well over 100,000 for each one
I've always found those omaze giveaways shady AF, giving away Mclarens, Teslas and whatever goes north of 100k USD. The lack of videos promoting the winners makes me wonder if this is really working for the greater good.
MORE VIPER CONTENT.
Ryan Panizzoli ok
@@CaseyPutsch The world is just so much emptier without seeing a Pterosaur flying out of the back of a Viper.
Things I never knew I wanted to see until some guy named Casey became the worst kind of petrolhead enabler.
I would also like more viper content.
That's why I stopped giving to the United Way, take a look at their books... The Better Business Bureau's standards, published in 2003 by the BBB Wise Giving Alliance, recommend that at least 65 percent of the nonprofit's total expenses should be for program expenses. The nonprofit's total expenses should not include more than 35 percent for fundraising.
Watch my funny parody of these cringy car giveaways
Are the sweepstakes companies really drawing random people. The ones not claiming charities. Are they legit?
If it feels like a scam it probably is!
I've had to tell my mom that a lot. She's been trying to help this Russian company get into the American market and the amount of scams I've had to call out to her is painful
I’ve almost fallen for these things. Almost bought stuff.. but damn, something inside me just says “what are you doing.. stop”
Also, I just found your channel and I can’t believe this isn’t a bigger channel than it already is. I’ll be sharing and subscribing. Love the honesty brother. Damn I’m glad I found this channel!
Meh.. I play to win. When I don't... more power to them. I'm not on the business side of this shit so it doesn't make me cringe. I spend a few bucks on legit stuff like 80Eighty and hope for a new ride.
I cannot fathom why vulture capital folks would fund something like sweepstakes. At the least, Omaze feels like a V.C. funded startup.
They make a huge profit and it's just a lie. If it says more entries don't improve your odds it's a scam. Some TH-camrs have done the scam them themselves which its hilarious when the dude an hour away won the car
I actually thought at some point you would say you’re giving away the Viper with 100% of everything made going to Genius Garage