Raffle Tickets

Advantages: simple surveys
Disadvantages: most surveys don't guarantee payment

...a few companies around in need of marketing information. Whenever a new survey is in the works you are notified. But on the majority of occasions there is no guaranteed payout. Instead in exchange for completing a survey you are entered in a raffle to win a small sum of points. It's doing 5-10 minutes of work on the internet for probably no gain and I'm sure many work to the ethic you don't get something for nothing in this world. Some may say it's the taking part but lets be honest we like a community in a sense like we have on Ciao but would many of us care as much if there wasn't incentive-Somehow I doubt it. If there was a points reward for every survey then I'd take part with no hesitation but if not then I'm sorry you don't get my time which is better spent elsewhere. If this raffle situation is necessary then why not give...

utero 01.10.2001 · Read review
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Life Of Luxury if only for a Few Hours

Advantages: Life of Luxury
Disadvantages: Expensive

...I would love to tell you we stayed at Raffles Hotel during our visit to Singapore but unfortunately that would be a big fat lie. For me to stay in the fantastic hotel would require a lottery win or other such windfall History Raffles dated back to 1887 and was named after the founder of Singapore Sir Stamford Raffles.The hotel was founded by four Armenian brothers called Sarkies. The hotel was originally just a 10 bedroom colonial bungalow but over the years the hotel continued to expand with the addition of extra wings ,a ballroom, veranda billiards room and further buildings and rooms. The hotel houses a tropical garden courtyard, museum as well as a Victorian style theatre. Raffles is world renowned be its luxurious accommodation and fabulous restaurants. Sad to say it was just a name to me until the TV programme Tenko which I...

elspeth334 10.11.2006 · Read review
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Review of Raffles Hotel, Singapore

Singapore's Grand Old Lady

Advantages: Luxuty,Colonial Atmosphere,great Food, Fine Service
Disadvantages: Expensive

...Singapore's most popular boutique hotel is the world famous 104-room Raffles Hotel which today is the preferred option for the well-heeled celebrities and other members of the rich and famous club. It is located in the heart of the business and shopping district at Beach Road. The dear old Raffles was built in 1887 complete with a stunning courtyard,which reputedly has more than 50,000 plants. It was the colonial hotel par excellence and attracted such famous figures as Joseph Conrad and Somerset Maugham. Despite recently being refurbished the place retains its colonial-style atmosphere with its very high ceilings,the whirring ceiling fans,exotoc Oriental carpets, wonderful period-style furnishings,its signature restaurants serving up fine cuisine and highly attentive hotel staff. Concessions to the modern era have been made in...

ashford 27.07.2000 · Read review
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Review of Singapore - Hotel Raffles

Fly like a king...Raffles Class

Advantages: Excellent Service, Video on demand, Be a king for 12 hours
Disadvantages: none

...Okay for our trip to Europe this year I decided to splash out and live it up a little and flew Raffles (business class) from Bangkok to Athens. The tickets cost just over 3 times more than economy class and cost about $2500 each. ouch! From the whole 3 week holiday in Greece the tickets cost more than the rest of the holiday put together to put things in perspective....so was it worth it.... too right it was. Raffles class introduces the luxury of seats that were big enough for my fairly short girlfriend to treat as a bed and snuggle up and fall asleep for the whole flight. With seats that have so many moving parts that you can spend an hour just playing with your seat to pass the time. Foot rests, back rests, leg rests, privacy screen, wrap around head rest, back support rest...the list goes on. On the SIA Megatops they now have...

khunKwai 09.08.2000 · Read review
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My Daily Raffle.CON

Advantages: can make a lot of money, especially if yougive many recommendations
Disadvantages: Can be paid nothing, if less than $5 earned a month.

...This is one of the most lucrative sites around. Up to 20 different competitions with good prizes for each, and get paid to enter. Admittedly the pay is only 2 cents a game, but at 20 games a day that makes $2.80 per week and $12 a month. Referrals are allowed, 2 levels, each paying the referrer 2 cents /game. At least that's what MyDailyRaffle.CON tells us. The Reality. 1/ Up till now there's only been six competitions a day, netting 12 cents, this totals less than $4 /month. 2/ There is a limit to the total number of games allowed to be played every day. Once the limit is reached, no more games and no earnings, until the next day. I've found that the limit is reached quite early on some days, and at weekends I have not been able to play at all. It appears that it's over 5 days and not 7, reducing the amount earned to around $2...

gander 19.03.2001 · Read review
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Review of mydailyraffle.com

Raffle mad at lightspeed

Advantages: see op
Disadvantages: see op

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Salgirl 13.07.2001 · Read review
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Review of lightspeedresearch.com

why should you buy an ipod shuffle 2nd gen ??????

Advantages: its small size, long battery life
Disadvantages: do not buy a mini when you can buy a shuffle

...I won one of these ipod shuffle 1st generations in a raffle at my scool, I kept this for quite some time and then decided to sell it so I could by the ipod mini in green. This was a big mistake i could of ever made, once I had bought the mini I realised that I could not have the mini around my neck without making it ache or have the same amount of running time as the shuffle. Apple have recently brought out the 2nd generation of the ipod shuffle which is a must have not only was i surprised at its amazing size but the battery life of one seems to never end, the shuffle comes in many colours and i happened to choose blue. It holds approx 240 songs and is really good value for its money as it is complete with docking station and also i received the new style earphones that creates brilliant sound quality music....

kane-16 25.06.2007 · Read review
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slimming world not for me

Advantages: As it is expensive you do try to be good
Disadvantages: not really healthy eating, expensive

...Although I agree with any plan that encourages a healthy weigh, I do not agree with this one. The person who looses the most weight each week is rewarded, this is not encouraging a health weight loss of 1-2lbs a week, it rewards you for extreme weight loss. You are also told you can have unlimited amounts of certain food on certain days which are listed in your membership book, however this does not take into account the salt content saturated fat content etc of these foods. You are also asked to bring in a piece of fruit for the slimmer of the week and also asked to take part in the weekly raffle to win a product the organiser talks about. If you add up the costs each week £4.50 weekly fees, 50p raffle and a piece of fruit 25p (ish) it begins to be expensive. During my weekly meeting no emphasis was put on exercise and all we...

santa1 11.02.2008 · Read review
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Review of Slimming World

Karcher Carpet Cleaner

Advantages: Brilliant, deep down cleaning
Disadvantages: the price

...To begin with I was very fortunate as this was a prize awarded to my husband from a raffle. There is no way I would pay £350.00 for this cleaner, only due to the fact I couldn't afford it, if I was pretty well off and I knew what I know about it now then yes, it would definitely be on the top of my want list. The unit itself is very compact, and weighs in at 12.1 kg, so pretty lightweight, because of it's small size it also makes it very easy to store. It comes in the usual karcher black and yellow, which is not very eyecatching but it is only a carpet cleaner I suppose. The unit has 7.5 metres of cable so can stretch a long way, and is particularly useful for the stairs. It comes with a floor nozzle and a hand nozzle which are both stored onboard the unit, and the hose itself is 2.5m long which again means not much stooping...

allyoxley 15.03.2007 (16.03.2007) · Read review
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Review of KARCHER PUZZI 100

Bananalotto: Be in it to win it

Advantages: Its quite quick to do and FREE!
Disadvantages: Low chances of winning.

...A FREE to use web site. You get 2 chances a day to enter the draws. Its a simple select 7 numbers and hope you win. You get some sort of 'points rewards' for getting any numbers but the money is only available at the top end of matching 5, 6 or 7 numbers. Small wins get a reward of Banana points. They also have a scratch card where you have 10 cards a day. Its possible to win cash on this though I never have, otherwise its more Banana points. The banana points can be used to enter a draw for some small items each month. Make sure you use the Banana Points by the end of the month as they expire and DONT carry over. There is also a daily chance to get a 'raffle' ticket. At the end of the month one lucky person get £500. You're chances of winning are low, as I've had very little from them but, its FREE and you have to be in it...

martinwi 07.02.2008 (08.02.2008) · Read review
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