House for sale for 13 euros: the competition is suspended

A home of 450 m² on seven hectares with pool, pond, horse bins, all for 13 euros … and a quiz to win. It was the system chosen by its present homeowners, quickly retired, to promote their property within the Black Périgord. “We've put all our work into it,” says Brigitte Demassougne, who has been working for 20 years, together with her husband, La Guérinière, a powerful visitor home in Cénac-et-Saint-Julien, 80 km southeast. from Périgueux (Dordogne). However like many video games of this sort, it may fall into the water.

The couple needed to droop theirs after receiving a reminder from the On-line Playing Authority (Arjel). “This letter states that we have now a interval of eight days to offer them with all of the observations to show that the sport isn’t a recreation of likelihood and know-how”, explain the owners on their website. Contacted by Le Figaro, Arjel confirms and remembers that “is taken into account illegal any playing provide that brings collectively a public provide, a monetary sacrifice within the expectation of a acquire, together with within the occasion that it outcomes completely or partially from know-how of the participant “. On this case, Arjel claims to have “signaled to the organizers that (their) provide was more likely to be within the nature of an unlawful provide”. Ms. Demassougne, who pleads “good religion” stated she would ship a letter to the Arjel to clarify their strategy. However she says she is “pessimistic” concerning the consequence of the quiz.

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Launched on April 1st, the competition had attracted practically 20,000 members (a median of 2000 per day) from France but additionally from Canada, Belgium, Nice Britain and Australia. These are all people who, if the game was canceled, will have to be reimbursed as stipulated in the rules. About 260,000 euros, registration charges amounting to 13 euros. Keep in mind that only a few of those contests result in the award of the jackpot, as a result of they set their ticket gross sales ambitions tough to carry. On this case, the organizers are betting on 150,000 tickets (625 per day). If the purpose was not reached by that date, they reserved the precise to increase the competitors till Might 1, 2020. If this nonetheless was not the case, however the threshold of 50,000 members had been reached a “comfort” prize might be supplied to the participant who has obtained the very best variety of factors within the last classification: a automotive value 17,670 euros.

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Within the run-up to retirement, the homeowners wished to promote their property, which they estimate at 1.5 million euros, a determine that appears excessive for the native market. “It's a reasonably costly property,” admits the previous restaurateur who first tried to promote via actual property companies. Then she had the thought, a 12 months in the past, to prepare a recreation to win the jackpot, after listening to about comparable initiatives. “Somebody who doesn’t have a lot cash can win” the home with two outbuildings “all in stones, the place nature is shut, which hosts birds of all types, deer, all in a gorgeous place “, she says. “Every little thing is nickel,” she provides.

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To win, it was sufficient to pay 13 euros of “registration payment”, to reply two questions – “what’s the identify of the citadel situated within the Black Perigord?” And “which river flows to La Roque-Gageac?” – and to judge the worth of a showcase of three objects. Every good basic tradition reply is value 10 factors, the estimate of the truthful value of the showcase being value 100 factors. Of those 13 euros, zero.5% are donated to the affiliation “Grégory Lemarchal” (named after this French singer-songwriter who died of cystic fibrosis at age 23) and zero.5% to the affiliation New Daybreak who helps orphans and widows in Africa.