First home win in Germany

Interview with the Homeowner Volker Stiny

Volker Stiny chooses an unusual way to his house to sell. For a Lospreis from 19 euros, the winner in a house worth about 550,000 Euro.

An unusual raffle arouses the interest of many prospective house at home and abroad. But not only is giving away a house, but there are still 99 more prizes for the lucky winner. The chances of the main prize, the beautiful home near Munich to win are good. They are better than any lottery. Therefore, the participants must, however, do something. Because it is not just a pure lottery, but in the foreground is a quiz. Since the action in Germany so far is unique, has Suite101 directly to the Hausverloser, Mr Stiny, adroitness and asked him some questions.

We: Mr. Stiny you have chosen an unusual way to put your house on the man or woman to bring. For what reason did you come up with the idea, to raffle your house?

Volker Stiny: Unfortunately the house was in the normal way does not sell. The prospective buyers have simply not get needed funding. A sale would only be an unrealistically low price have been possible (about 1 / 2 estimate).

We: Why did you choose the number of participants is limited to 48,000?

Stiny: This figure has been together with my lawyers determined to cover all costs to be able to cover.

We: By what date you can still sign up?

Stiny: There is no end date. If the 48,000 registered participants and are released, no further applications be possible. I will be the bank account and then have a lock which can, by any overpayments related repayments, as far as possible be avoided. It may well be that at the end, despite the declaration, but not yet received payments, with a waiting list to be worked.

We: Why is the lottery with a game of skill coupled?

Stiny: This is not a lottery in the usual sense. As in Germany, a pure lottery is not allowed, the raffle of the 100 prizes under the 100 winners of the Quiz Tournament performed florida luxury homes. There are questions from the general knowledge to the field, as reflected in the popular television quiz shows are known. Anything else would be forbidden in Germany. The gambling Staatsvertrag another variant can not.

We: Did the authorities approved the lottery?

Stiny: According to my lawyers are in the quiz conducted by myself for a tournament permit-free arcade game. The competent authorities have announced a need for clarification Englewood Florida Real Estate My lawyers are in close contact with the supervisors. The legal status derives from the following comments on the law: When you gamble, the decision about profit and loss under the contract terms are not significantly different from the skills and knowledge and the degree of attention of the players, but only or mainly on chance, namely from the work unpredictable, the influence of the parties withdrawal causes (BGHST 9, 37 = NJW 56, 679, Tröndle / Fischer, 50th ed § 234 para 3).

On the other hand it has when - penalty - the average game of participants with at least half chance in the hand, by the skill of the game outcome to be determined Boca Grande Real Estate. That isolated the skill players missing is negligible. It determines the average, so that the character of the game only can be assessed uniformly (Tröndle / Fischer, § 284 para 5, AG Karlsruhe-Durlach NStZ 01, 254), (LG Bochum ibid).

We: Your unusual action will attract attention. Do you not realize that you're an avalanche of house raffles trigger?

Stiny: I think that there are many attempts by imitators will enter the model to copy. I hereby would like to advise against all this to try.

1. It is often overlooked that there are legal pitfalls, and therefore the implementation is plenty complicated.

2. With the website design and programming of the required quizzes is very difficult and expensive. For the start up costs is one of 10,000 euros to 20,000 euros excluding advertising expenses must.

3. To which in my case needed to find 48,000 participants are typically 500,000 to 1 million page views needed to be purchased expensive Gasparilla Real Estate. The prices are clicking on Google between 30 cents to 2.50 euros per click. Imitators are more media attention is not on this scale have. If there is more in the future "Hausverloser" should, there will be a Kanibalisierungseffekt no longer possible to play a sufficient number of participants to find.