{"id":181272,"date":"2023-09-12T14:42:03","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T14:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=181272"},"modified":"2023-09-12T14:42:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T14:42:03","slug":"teacher-who-won-2million-mansion-was-given-just-5000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/teacher-who-won-2million-mansion-was-given-just-5000\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher who won \u00a32million mansion &apos;was given just \u00a35,000)&apos;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Schoolteacher who won \u00a32million mansion in Win My Home \u00a310 prize draw &#8216;was given just \u00a35,000&#8217; after organisers failed to raise enough cash in the competition<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Loretta, 35, said she was heartbroken because her current home is a &#8216;death trap&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A schoolteacher who won a \u00a32million mansion in a Win My Home prize draw said she was given just \u00a35,000 &#8211; after the organisers failed to raise enough cash for the competition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Loretta, 35,\u00a0from Radford, was announced as the winner of the luxury property in Nottingham.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The clip shows a woman approach Loretta&#8217;s home with a bunch of flowers before telling her: &#8216;You&#8217;re the winner of our Nottingham prize draw&#8217; &#8211; without clarifying what she had won.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Loretta said she was devastated to be told afterwards that she would not be getting the house and instead receiving \u00a35,000.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It was heartbreaking because my property at the moment is a death-trap, that&#8217;s why I entered it,&#8217; she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/12\/14\/75336311-12508643-image-a-5_1694526465289.jpg\" height=\"577\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Loretta, 35, (left)\u00a0was announced as the winner of a \u00a32million mansion for a Win My Home competition, but said she instead received \u00a35,000. Pictured: Loretta being told she had won the prize\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/12\/14\/75336377-12508643-image-a-4_1694526458841.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The property&#8217;s owner Elliot Andrew (right) put the luxury Nottingham home (left) up for auction\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One of the terms and conditions listed on the website &#8211; a rule which Loretta said she did not see before entering &#8211; states that if \u00a32.5million of net sales are not reached then the winner will receive 50 per cent of the net proceeds.<\/p>\n<p>But in emails that NottinghamshireLive reported they had seen,\u00a0the competition organisers claimed they had made a loss and awarded the \u00a35,000 as a &#8216;goodwill gesture&#8217;. They added they had spent nearly \u00a3200,000 on &#8216;marketing costs&#8217; and were unable to process Visa payments &#8216;for a long time&#8217;.<\/p>\n<h3>READ MORE:\u00a0The truth about winning the Omaze &#8216;dream&#8217;: How ten of the 14 that have been won were put up for sale by the new owners (and one of those remaining is rented out to wealthy Airbnb customers)<\/h3>\n<p>The prize draw, which ran between March and August, offered the chance to win a six-bedroom four-storey villa.<\/p>\n<p>Packages offered ranged from 15 entries for \u00a310 to 1000 entries for \u00a3350, with the option of one free postal entry. The winner announcement video, which shows Loretta&#8217;s elation at hearing she had won the draw, is accompanied by a statement.<\/p>\n<p>It reads: &#8216;She and her husband have been looking to buy their first home together! We&#8217;re so happy for you both and wish you all the best for your next chapter,&#8217; followed by an emoji of a house.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to NottinghamshireLive, Loretta, who wished to withhold her surname, recalled the interaction. &#8216;Two people came and they said &#8221;yes you&#8217;ve won&#8221; and I was like &#8221;yes, where are my keys?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;And they told me I hadn&#8217;t won the house but I had won a grand prize of \u00a35,000. I was like &#8221;right, thanks&#8221; and they said &#8221;unfortunately because we didn&#8217;t raise enough money I can&#8217;t give you the house&#8221;.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>They instead told her they could transfer \u00a35,000 straight to her bank account.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Loretta and her husband were desperate to move away from their council home, which she said has &#8216;horrible&#8217; mould.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;All we&#8217;re trying to do is get out of this property,&#8217; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I entered it thinking this could be a new start, maybe it might happen.&#8217; She also said she was receiving messages and being approached in the street by people who had seen her in the announcement video and thought she had won the house.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/12\/14\/75336379-12508643-image-a-6_1694526482624.jpg\" height=\"476\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The prize draw, which ran between March and August, offered the chance to win a six-bedroom four-storey villa (pictured)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/12\/14\/75337009-12508643-image-a-11_1694527145568.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Loretta and her husband were desperate to move away from their council home, which she said has &#8216;horrible&#8217; mould<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/12\/14\/75337011-12508643-image-a-12_1694527148787.jpg\" height=\"476\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Loretta said she was devastated to be told afterwards that she would not be getting the house and instead receiving \u00a35,000<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;People have got in touch with me saying congratulations, but I say &#8221;don&#8217;t congratulate me because I didn&#8217;t win.&#8221; They say I&#8217;m lying, she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I need everyone to stop saying congratulations. It&#8217;s not that I&#8217;m not grateful for the \u00a35,000.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Even if they said we can&#8217;t give you the house but here&#8217;s \u00a350,000, it&#8217;s something. But \u00a35,000? \u00a35,000 now can&#8217;t even get you gas and electrics.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Responding to Loretta about her concerns by email, Win My Home said the terms of conditions are &#8216;very explicit&#8217; that the winner would get a percentage of the net profit if enough money was not raised.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Unfortunately, after nearly \u00a3200,000 in marketing costs and the issue that we discussed about not being able to process Visa payments for a long time, there was no profit and in fact we made a loss,&#8217; it said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The amount that we have awarded actually came from our own personal pockets because, we wanted to award you something as a goodwill gesture and hoped that it would make a positive difference to your lives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The alternative was awarding nothing which we would obviously not have felt great about.&#8217; It added that the financial issues it had faced on the draw had been resolved and said &#8216;there&#8217;s a great chance that the next draw will be a huge success&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12508643\/schoolteacher-2million-mansion-competiton-winner-5thousand-cash-instead.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schoolteacher who won \u00a32million mansion in Win<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":181271,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23056],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Teacher who won \u00a32million mansion &amp;apos;was given just \u00a35,000)&amp;apos; 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