BOTB (Best Of The Best) Exposed — How to Win a Car?
BOTB Review
Dream of owning that amazing car? Botb.com offers just that. This is a weekly competition to win your dream car.
What Is Botb.com?
BOTB is a car drawing. It’s played weekly by purchasing tickets and the “spotting the ball”. You are shown a picture of a football match and you’ve got to guess where the ball should be. When the contest closes, the judges decide where the center of the ball is, and then whoever is closest to this point wins. It’s that simple. Tickets range in price from £3 – £20 depending on which car you want to win. That was where I got seriously distracted surfing through the different vehicles. I seesawed between the Maserati and the Alfa Romeo.
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Who Can Participate?
The BOTB’s game is open to anyone 16 years of age or older depending on the “age of majority” where you live. What is clear is anyone can play from anywhere – as long you don’t work for botb.com. The only downside is if you do live outside the UK, there could be other costs on claiming your dream car.
What Are the Prizes Offered by BOTB?
For the Dream Car Competition, there is one car award. It looks like the winner gets to choose from the vehicles advertised. Any options or upgrades are paid for by the winner. The first prize includes insurance for the 1st year and one-year warranty servicing. Winners also have the option to take cash at a value of 80%. There are 20 runner-up prizes of £200 for Dream Car tickets for another competition. Oh, and if there is a tie for the Dream Car, the person who loses gets £500 cash and £500 worth of more tickets.
Who Owns BOTB.com?
BOTB is a registered company in the UK listed on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange and has been around since 1999. They have a snail mail address, phone number, and email address – plus an online form. This is the dream child of William Hindmarsh who always wanted to own that dream car and decided to set up a game for others to be able to do that.
What Are the Terms & Conditions?
When I first looked at the prizes offered in BOTB’s Dream Car Competitions, I got all excited because I misread the small print. I thought it said that ticket entries for each of the prizes are limited to 150 people. What it actually says is, that tickets are limited to 150 per person plus any “Supercharged Loyalty Club Tickets”. The Supercharged Club is a bonus system for extra tickets and refer-a-friend cash awards.
Also in the small print, if the car is delivered in the UK then UK VAT is paid by botb.com. If it is delivered to Europe, UK VAT is paid, but any other costs like taxes, import duties, and registration costs will be paid by the winner. That goes for any other country. They’ll get to the closest port and then you’ve got to sort out the rest.
How to Collect a Prize?
Botb.com will contact the winner, but if they can’t within 5 days, then it goes to the next person. Disqualification can also take place if you break the rules of the game and mostly that looks like getting more than the limit on tickets. Winners have to provide a copy of their passport, prove the credit card used to purchase tickets was theirs, provide pictures of them, and pose for photos and videos.
BOTB Feedback and Complaints
The reviews on their website are great. Other sites were just as positive, so it looks like this site does just what it says it does – offers a car a week to win.
Why You Should Register with BOTB
Pros:
Amazing Cars to Win
Weekly Game
Fun Way to Win
Why You Shouldn’t Register with BOTB
Cons:
No Info on Odds of Winning
Taxes and other Import Duties if You Win Outside the UK
Waiting To Win
Is BOTB.com Legit?
This site looks legit and does exactly what it says – players can win a car a week. I love the concept of a chance to win my dream car. The “spot the ball” idea is a hilarious way to choose a winner. The only downside is not knowing how many other people you are playing against!
BOTB gets a thumbs up partly for its simplicity and partly for the amazing different dream cars to win. I’m going back to looking at cars!
Andy
I have a strange feeling that this is a popular lottery that pays out a very small percentage of its takings. I cannot get this important piece of info from the internet. It is important to know from BOTB what percentage is paid out otherwise the only real winners are the owners of BOTB themselves. Strange that answer is not on their FAQ’s
Darren Allix
Been playing BOTB for many years now, although I have not won a car, I know I have much better odds of winning than the National Lottery, and it’s fun at the end of the day when the fun stops STOP.
Varma
I am from India this game scam I play a game but when I use my debit card to pay money for tickets it doesn’t work’s and also shown your card is declined I also try my another card by the same problem.
james Smith
Totally agree with Mr. Harman. I have played BOTB a number of times and always get a return to play again. It is not a scam. Someone local to my workplace won a car recently. People think these contests are a scam because they play and don’t win. It is a bit of fun to win a major prize. If you don’t treat it as such don’t play it. Simple!
Buff
I chatted with them and told them that they need to have a second and third place winner and it would be more fair. Also in the picture the judges are just guessing where the ball is. They never see where the ball was original at. I told them that that is not a fair contest. They try to say that they are on the stock market like that means anything. Enron was on the stock market and we saw what happen with that. They said they tried to call me for my concerns and they never did and I had my phone next to me the whole time. Stay away from botb.com!
Paul
The reason they use judges to estimate where the ball is as there are rules in law against using old sorts matches that way. It has to be a judged game of skill not a lottery. All explained if you do a little research
john smkith
That’s not how the game works… Its whoever guesses the closest to the judges guess… if the judges knew where the ball was, why would they bother judging…