Q. How and when are the selection processes and The Final going to take place ?

A. Once the competition starts on the 2nd Nov 2009, then after that first day, starting on the second day and then every following day at 7 o'clock each morning British time, the previous day's 20 DAILY, correct-question-qualifying, entry routes are closed.  


Thedetails of the last daily entry route process will close at 7 o'clock on the morning of the date to be determined (due to circumstances beyond our control having altered the original deadline, it will be as soon as is possible and we are working without rest to make this happen and have every confidence this will happen)

Up to the tempoaray halting 1 entrant from each of the 20 routes, therefore 20 per day = 140 per week, were selected to enter each weekly final. The temorary halting and the temporary competition however means that inaddition to the 140 weekly finalists of each of the 4 remaining weeks when the competition returns means that there will be more weekly finalists in each of the remaining 4 weekly finals as the sum total of each one daily temporary finalist will be divided into 4 groups and each group will be have the opportunity to be entered into one of the weekly finals


Each daily and weekly finalist will be drawn and listed on the site in the finalist gallery after 24 hours of each selection


Weekly selection processes of those of the 140 daily successful entrants to answer the weekly question correctly (and the additional finalists from the four groups as mentioned above) take place (every Tuesday  starting on the FIRST TUESDAY  AFTER the first week Mon - Sun period, this delay is to give successful daily entrants time to try to enter their relevant weekly stage


The actual Final winner will be selected in 2010. (due to engineered circumstamces beyond our control needing an extention of time this date is still to be determined)  Two reserves will also be selected.  The winner has up to 30 days to respond....... (updates as to contact progress will be published on the site) .......from either telephone or recorded delivery letter contact from us otherwise an `alternative winner` is the first reserve person drawn.  We hope the final winner does not wish to remain private but if they did both our and their solicitor would make statements to be published to verify that a genuine person / winner exists



Q. Why 21 finalists and why daily and weekly
A.  Simply due to the potential sheer volume of possible entrants given that this is the Internet community we wished to make this attractive (only a handful of finalists) to entrants but not too simple hence the two (daily and weekly) question system.

Even up to the last daily entry route and selection process that starts at 9, oclock on the final entry start-morning and closes at seven the following morning entrants may still enter as long as they have not already been selected for THE FINAL

By spreading the competition out it allows us to keep our advertising as low as possible


Q. What happens if you do not reach the amount needed through advertising?
A.   We are confident we will even though the advertising market is in decline due to companies cutting back on marketing budgets as we believe this is an inexpensive innovative concept and marketing platform combined, but as you are curious we will answer. 

We reserve the right to extend our deadline date for the Prize Competition and THE FINAL in order ensure there are sufficient funds (longer exposure, more advertising) .   
If however, we do not reach enough to cover everything

the winner will
A.  Receive a lessor property and cash prize up to but no more than the value of the intended prize.

B.  win a lessor valued property

C. win a cash prize that being an amount of money from that received after VAT, operating costs, expenses and charity gifts but not to a greater value than the intended property. 

Of course we reserve the right to cancel this at any time without giving a prize if circumstances beyond our control deemed it necessary
 

You need to read the terms and conditions to find out more.

We however only foresee a positive result of a successful winner receiving the intended prize.
 

Q. Does the House come with any Guarantees?
A.  No. there are no damp proof or other guarantees but it all seems pretty sound and we have lived in it for 12 years .  There are some minor cosmetic jobs that need attending to which will be fixed once we have the full advertising money in place.
But no we make no warranties or guarantees whatsoever


Q. Does the house come furnished?
A. No but we might decide to include some at our discretion

Q. When would the winner actually take possession of the house?
A. As soon as the  winner is selected in the FINAL in 2010 (date extended and as yet undetermined due to 'circumstances' that have occurred beyond our control.  The winner will be contacted and has up to 30 days to respond, they then need to give their solicitors details, remember we are paying for this.   If the winner needs help in choosing a solicitor they can go to the law society web page whereby they can seek advice from there.  Then just like any house conveyance it is dependent on how quickly the solicitors work

Q. How will I know if I am either a finalist or the winner?
A. First there will be plenty of clear updates as to events. 
The day after each daily and weekly selection stage we will place the non-too-personal user name and town of the daily and weekly selected entrants in the finalist gallery and as soon as possible.  You can check out the galleries now to see who has been selected to date.

Hopefully any of these and The Final Winner will provide better details but we have to respect their right to privacy.

However as the public need to know it's a fair, honest and open competition we assure you that for the winner our solicitors will be satisfied to the best degree as can be reasonably expected that the winner is genuine and legally entitled and  solicitors statements to say that the named User name is a genuine winner

No other information will be published about the daily and weekly successful entrants unless they consent. 

The day after THE FINAL we will publish the user name, town and country of the winner but it may take up to 30 days to publish more and that is only if they allow this.



Q.  How do I know the competition is fair?
A.  First it will be  in the public eye so only any one with genuine intent and acting in good faith would do this.

We have and are acting in clear conscience and full accordance with our terms and conditions.  We are aware that there are a minority of entrants that are not genuine but these are not in anyway connected to ourselves, and details are time consumingly being logged.   



Q How do I know your solicitors are genuine
A.  The solicitor will be a member of the law society.

 
Q How will you know if someone "pretends" to be the winner when they are not?
A    Internet access to any website whether just to view or register for any purpose creates an electronic paper trail and therefore people can be traced.  By the time we reach the final stage we will have communicated with the weekly successful entrants who have the opportunity to go forward to the final for their personal details and will be satisfied on the face of it. 

The terms and conditions clearly state that proof of who the winning person is, is required. other than just the email user name and town so by the time the Final selection has been made and the prize ready to be handed over we should have reasonable proof that they are the winner. 

The winner will be drawn by or at least in the presence of a solicitor, the house conveyed by a solicitor who will ensure that all is in order before the conveyance is finalized.  Anyone who is not legally entitled either by age, geographical territory, legal title to the entry email or any other reason will be disqualified. Don’t forget also it will have web and hopefully TV coverage.


Q. Why should I tell anyone else about the competition?
A. Well it's always nice to do something good for other people think how different the world would be if everybody practiced random acts of kindness.    You would make someone feel really great if you like them enough to tell them of something that in effect could lessen your own opportunity.  You would probably feel great wouldn’t you if someone told you about this, because you would feel that they genuinely liked you enough, that they were prepared to lessen their chance for you.  If you don’t feel like doing it for that reason which we genuinely hope you do, then simply get together with friends as people do by all agreeing to split the prize you win.   

You don’t have to live in it, you could sell it and share the money.    The house had planning permission which ran out recently but should be easily renewable. This is to build a whole second level and we have been told by a couple of estate agents (only verbally during conversation) that the plot would, subject to further planning permission actually take 6 terraces or 12 flats if it were knocked down so a developer might be interested.  

Ideally we hope that doesn’t happen it’s a beautiful character house that would make a lovely home for someone.  Its spacious enough in size due to it's layout (and subject to rooms being divided or the extension built to house 2 families comfortably we believe this as we have in the past had groups of two to three friend or generations of families interested in purchasing it.  A few friends could live together without driving each other crazy,  so even if you are not bothered with clocking up karma there's good reason.



Q.  I want to do the same with my house can you help.
A    Please contact us AFTER the success of this competition.n
 
Please be aware though that it might take time to get back to you but we will.  You should receive an automatic response if we receive your e-mail in which case we will definitely get back to you. If you do not receive an automatic response it means we did not receive your e-mail so try again.


Q. Why are you doing this & not selling your house the "normal way?"
A. Well as you will be aware housing activity has been and still appears to be sluggish and we want to ensure the mortgage company and creditors are paid money owed.  

The idea has been there for a few years but due to being self employed we did not have any time to act upon it  but now for reasons mentioned in the why / about page have had to.  A few years ago we read about a woman further north than us who was giving her house away in a raffle or competition ( I forget which)  as she couldn’t sell it due to harassment from people who had devalued her property (If this happens to you seek legal advice as any such people would be liable for loss of chance / opportunity devaluation in price)

We were genuinely touched by her plight and we were inspired us to do consider doing the same but due to both being self employed and the circumstances referred to in the WHY /ABOUT page were too busy.   We thought about advertising paying gpt it due to the fact that people might be wary about buying tickets for a competition over the Internet from other than trusted recognized sources and did not want it to hinder the success of it.   We shelved it for a time due to not enough time but our circumstances dictated that we had best be putting this to market.
 


Q   Why do the daily and weekly successful entrants  / finalists only get to win opportunities of a place in the final not anything else.

A     Well

1.  Well as in any process that eliminates by way of semi / quarter finals we believe that the increased opportunity provided to successful entrants by the daily and weekly stages are a benefit in themselves.

2.  In order to keep down the advertising costs as much as possible.
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The daily successful entrant / finalist wins / gains the opportunity to be one of only 140 potential entrants to obtain a place in the weekly selection process and in turn any successfully selected entrant of the weekly processes gains an automatic entry / place in the final which will have no more than 21 finalists

Due to circumstances beyonf our control altering many aspects of this competition including time span there will be more than 140 finalists in each of the 4 remaining weekly finals but still no more than 21 actual finalists. Details of why this is are mentioned above and elsewhere on this site. Please feel fre to contactb us to ask more if we have not explained this fully.

  

Q. It sounds too good to be true. Is it?
A. It is as straightforward as it can be. Its being in done in absolute good faith to not only help our selves in order that we may pay all our creditors and carry on, but a lucky winner, the advertisers and as many good causes as possible.  There is no intended or known catch and remember not only will a solicitor and the media be watching we are planning to go on do this on a grand but sustainable to all scale after.


 
Q. Where is the advertising money fund being held.
A. Revenue money will be held in pay pal initially if paid for through this method then transferred to a separate bank account, all overseen by our solicitor (once such is in place and the funds will remain in pay pal until then) and at the end, despite this being run as a personal business venture, a list of accounts will be made available to the public.



Q. Is this competition legal?
A.   We have spent 11 months ( alongside legal, health and delaying issues) on this project from learning to build it and manually inputting thousands of codes
(checking them over and over again) all the while researching the law including gambling, property, charity, tax and other areas of law to ensure this is a legitimate Prize Competition.    It is not a lottery or raffle it is a Prize Competition with a challenge included and no entry or other fee (we have ensured all angles are covered) and therefore this is a perfectly legal free prize competition.  We have done this in a different manner to other past attempts by people to personally dispose of property by doing this in a manner that we as a self employed partnership will legally, as permitted by the Law of Property Act, purchase the property from our self in our personal capacity therefore ensuring we in our personal capacity reap only the market value, however as we are doing this in a self employed commercial capacity we are subject to VAT, and after all operating costs TAX on any remainder.

Any such remainder after tax will be used to pay all our remaking creditors (though we hold the honest belief, in knowledge of the appropriate law, that some do not legally own our debts so we intend to ask a few of these to write of the debt as far as they are concerned and we will give the full amount of money to charities. (This is a separate intention to giving some money to the charities mentioned above.)  




Q. Still have a question?
A.Then please email us via the contact page and we will answer your question as soon as we can. If you do not receive an automatic response e-mail again.  Please be aware though that we are inundated with e-mails which may mean it takes a while to respond but we will. 


GOOD LUCK


May you all be blessed with the strength and support you need to be happy.