#Omaze #FreeMansion #ScamAlert
Hey there friends! 👋 So, I’ve been seeing these ads from Omaze all over the place, claiming they’re giving away free mansions for charity. 🏠🎉 But let’s be real, how is that even possible? Is it too good to be true? Or is it actually legit?
I mean, they keep saying “you could win this house” or “support a great cause and win big”. But I can’t help but feel a little skeptical. 🤔 Are they really giving away these amazing properties, or is there some catch hidden in the fine print?
Have any of you entered one of their giveaways before? Did you actually win or was it just a marketing ploy? I’d love to hear your experiences and insights! Let’s unravel this mystery together. 🕵️♂️
Don’t be shy! Share your thoughts, stories, and opinions in the comments below. Let’s get to the bottom of this together! 💬💡#CommunityDiscussion
And remember, stay curious and question everything! 😉🔍
Omaze was a privately owned, for-profit company that had two models to raise funds for charities. Sweepstake entries for a celebrity experience (set visit, dinner date, tickets to a premiere, etc.) see 60% of the money donated to charity, 25% towards fees and Omaze’s costs for advertising and creating content for the event, and 15% to Omaze as profit.
For prize-based experiences (like a car, vacation, or tuition), 15% went to the charity, 70% to sourcing and shipping the prize, covering the winner’s taxes, processing credit card fees, and Omaze’s costs in marketing and creating content for the experience, and 15% to Omaze in profit.
It’s like a lottery but with a more specific prize. Lotteries work by taking in more money than they give out. If 100 people pay $1 each to play the lottery, you might award a $75 jackpot and keep the remaining $25 (in fact, most lotteries are run by the government and used to fund public services, so they have roughly the same end result as Omaze – the surplus money goes to ” a good cause”). This means that lotteries are generally a bad deal because people who play them will lose money on average.
In the case of Omaze, instead of getting a lot of money that you could spend on a house if you want, you just get the house. So Omaze is only a scam in the sense that it’s a lottery, though that shouldn’t be a shock. Of course the charity drive is going to be a financial loss for its participants. But if you’re suspicious that the promised prizes were never awarded, there’s no evidence that Omaze was that kind of scam. With that said, it bears mentioning that Omaze is a “for-profit fundraising company,” which means that it has no obligation to direct all of the surplus money to charity. Some of that money goes to the owner just because he feels like it.