Trials and Tribulations of a Lottery Syndicate

Now wouldn't it be nice to win €140 Million

2009-06-16T10:03:00.000-07:00

This Summer there is only one lottery with a GUARANTEED prize fund of €140 Million: the long-awaited "Sorteo Extraordinario" July Extraordinary draw, which takes place in Spain on Saturday, 4th July 2009.

Playing this lottery gives you the best possible chance of scooping your share of the jackpot because, unlike most lotteries, instead of having 1 jackpot the July Extraordinary draw has 10 jackpots.

You can increase your chances even more by playing in an e-lottery syndicate and sharing 10 tickets. Each ticket can win up to 8 times.

And that's not all. By playing in an e-lottery syndicate you will be GUARANTEED to share at least 1 cash prize in this draw.

So with 10 jackpots and a share of 10 tickets which can win up to 8 times each, make sure you secure your place today. After all, which other lottery system guarantees that you will win a prize in every draw - and yes, we have indeed won in every draw for the past 3 months!

Can you beat the recession?

2009-06-02T10:35:00.000-07:00

Well, now that we are in the heart of the recession which has been driven by fuel companies trying to squeeze every last drop out of the economy and the banks which have then realised that they cannot keep lending more than people can afford to pay, maybe now is the time for a reality check.

The petrol companies will continue to use the motorist for profit, unless we boycott the main forecourts and use the cheapest petrol stations - Petrol Prices.com is a useful site to find the best prices in your area. They always find an excuse - the latest excuse for continued price rises, despite the fact that oil is now half the price it was this time last year, is the British weather - with the hot weather, we all drive further, and so demand is up, pushing petrol back above £1 per litre (yes for the yanks moaning about their $2.50 a GALLON, we pay £1 per LITRE!). The dollar exchange rate is another excuse, but they still think the British motorist will continue to pay exhorbitant prices with no alternative. The competition in the market disappeared years ago. With the recession, petrol usage in the UK must have dropped substantially, but do they care whether people can afford to go to work? Not on your nelly!

Gas and Electricity prices continue to be high - with no signs of them returning anywhere near the early 2008 levels - again, the only way the consumer can apply pressure is by constantly checking prices and switching to the cheapest supplier - if we all did this, then it may drive down prices as they might want our custom - USwitch is an invaluable tool here.

It is not all doom and gloom however.

The low exchange rates for the pound mean that whilst imports are a lot more expensive, oversees customers are seeing a significant reduction in the price to them - certainly our own sales have increased substantially to oversees customers - those in the Euro zone have seen an almost 40% reduction in our prices, whilst those in the USA have seen closer to a 50% reduction.
This can be a boon to UK based business if people seize the chance and could even help us to being a producer nation again, as the cost of getting goods made in the UK is becoming more economical. Prices of shipping goods abroad can also be reduced through using couriers such as Parcel2Go.

A recession is also a boon to setting up smaller businesses, perhaps using your redundancy money to help fund the start up - Internet Business Angels offer advice on advertising your business and sites such as Go Freelance can assist with finding other freelancers to work with you.

There might be low interest rates in the UK, although we have gone back to our original bank to make most of it by fixing our mortgage at an all time low of 4.59% fixed for 5 years. I guess the trading history with that bank helped here - we were seen as a lower risk than a new customer. Additional cash can still earn an amazing 5% gross interest by opening an Alliance & Leicester Premier Direct current account.

Holidays in the UK are also now more attractive, as people don't get as many euros for their money, and with a long hot summer forecast for the UK, why go abroad, when you can enjoy some of the wonderful UK landscape and help keep the economy going by spending your money here !

Finally, in a recession, people are tempted more and more to win the lottery and escape - this makes the online lottery syndicate more attractive than ever and we are seeing an up-surge in people joining the scheme. With no more affiliate fees, it is now better than ever to join and sell the scheme to others.

Some great news from Virtual World Direct

2009-05-23T00:27:00.001-07:00

Now is one of the best times to become an affiliate of VWD and introduce other people to the scheme - not only can you play the lottery for nothing, but VWD have now waived the annual affiliate fee.

How does this work?

For every person that you introduce to the scheme, you receive commission of £1 for each entry into the lottery draws which they make.

To find out more - visit: http://www.smarterwaytomakemoney.com/Default.aspx?m=24487RM

This means that because I have introduced 5 other people to this online lottery syndicate, not only has it cost me NOTHING to enter these draws, but in fact, I earn an £158 every 4 weeks from commission (£60 of this goes towards my entry fees in the twice weekly National Lottery draw, the Friday's Euromillions draw and the new monthly Spanish lottery draw with its guaranteed prize and limited tickets).

Why not become an affiliate today? http://www.v-w-d.com/g.asp?m=24487RM

Spanish SuperDraws

2009-02-28T07:04:00.000-08:00

New this month through Virtual World Direct is the ability to play in the Spanish monthly Superdraws every month for £20.

The Spanish Superdraw syndicates have prize funds ranging from a gigantic €84 Million to a monumental €2.6 Billion.

Playing the smarter way with an e-lottery syndicate means you're guaranteed to win at LEAST 3 cash prizes in the next draw on March 7th.

Like the Christmas El Gordo draws, tickets are limited, which means that syndicate places will be even MORE limited and we expect to sell out. But, with our Spanish Superdraw syndicates you will never miss out on playing in these huge games each month.

Join Virtual World Direct online lottery syndicates and find out more.

2009-02-02T22:25:00.001-08:00

I have recently been asked which is the best lottery syndicate to join and to have the best chance of winning.

I have been a member of the syndicate system for over 3 yearrs now and often win, but it is generally small amounts once it has been split between the syndicate players. My largest one-off wins (around £15) have been on the UK National Lottery and yes, I do tend to win every 13 draws.

However, I win more often on the Euromillions draw, although each win tends to only be around 20p - however, I have won larger amounts £3 - £12 more often on this than on the UK National Lottery syndicate.

My EuroMillions winnings through the Virtual World Direct scheme for the last 20 wins are shown on the right (I wonder how many other people trying to get you to sign up to a scheme would be as honest?).

My National Lottery Winnings through the Virtual World Direct scheme for the last 20 wins are also shown

In all, I would say the EuroMillions draw is a better bet, but then of course you only get one draw per week.

Switching between them is easy, although you would need to email VWD support directly to see if you can do it without them keeping another entry protection deposit.

The other option, rather than paying £5 a week for your entry, is of course, to become an affiliate and introduce other people to the scheme - you would get £1 commission per week for each person you introduce, offsetting your own charges (or even giving you a small profit!)

Also don't forget to enter the free £1,000 draw twice a week!

Hope this is of some help and best of luck

A look back at the credit crunch

2009-01-25T00:28:00.000-08:00

With the credit crunch in full swing and as people start worrying about jobs and the recession it all seems doom and gloom. At least the National Lottery offers some chance of escaping from it all, and our fellow affiliates for the scheme have reported a rising number of people subscribing to the Virtual World online lottery syndicates - hoping that they will win the big one.

I guess that £5 a week is no big sum for 44 chances on the National Lottery is neither here nor there for many people - what is it, two pints of beer down your local (if it is still open), and less than going to the cinema to watch Slumdog Millionaire (this year's feel good movie - well worth watching by the way). At least now you can join more than one syndicate at a time through the Virtual World online lottery syndicate scheme so this makes it even more attractive, as you can have an entry for your partner as well without having to become an affiliate.

Remember, somewhere it is written that you will win (or so it says in Slumdog Millionaire) - we may not have the same levels of poverty here in the UK as in Mumbai, but we still have plenty of people wanting to escape from their real lives...

Oh well a night in with Sky TV looks like a better bet for a better escape. It seems at long last they have been listening to people bemoaning the prices for Digital TV and not only brought back the £50 Marks and Spencer voucher for new customers signing up via the Sky TV website but the Sky+ box which has a hard drive recorder in it to pause live TV (or record a second channel) no longer has a monthly subscription charge. At least now, I am ready for when Lost comes back on Sky One - why oh why do they not show this on Freeview or Freesat (it carries Sky Three, but they will not show even old series of Lost - what a missed opportunity!)

Best of luck for 2009

Win £100m on Friday's EuroMillions Draw

2008-09-24T10:17:00.000-07:00

Well, the £100 million maximum rollover has now been reached again on the National Lottery EuroMillions draw due to take place this Friday (26th September). Fingers crossed, we will win a share of this massive prize.

Why not join in the fun and increase your chances - have 44 lines for only a fiver by joining our online lottery syndicate

At least it is better than trying to make money by being an Avon rep - I mean, how many times can you sell lip gloss to 50 customers? Balance that against how many times they will enter the National Lottery !!

At last, VWD have seen sense

2008-09-19T06:50:00.000-07:00

One of the biggest problems in the past is that although the online lottery synidcate system allows you a great way of playing in a large syndicate to get lots of entries in the UK National Lottery lotto and EuroMillions draws, you could only ever play in one syndicate for each draw.

They have now rectified this, and you can play in multiple synidcates, by choosing how many you wish to subscribe to each week. This is ideal, especially as the £26m super Euromillions draw is due to happen tonight.

We have increased the number of syndicates we subscribe to for this draw, and will then reduce them next week to a more affordable level.

Great and welcome news - join our online lottery syndicates now!

I got a share of the £92million EuroMillions jackpot

2008-09-06T04:09:00.000-07:00

Well, last night was a bit of a disappointment, I had purchased a EuroMillions lottery ticket from the local Tescos and my partner had entered a syndicate at work - so that was a total of 8 goes on the lottery between us.

Get the results this morning and lo and behold, although we matched two numbers on one line, there were no winning tickets..... What a shame..

On the other hand, the postman delivered a cheque from Virtual World Direct for £80.50 in commission from referring others and this morning I log on to find that my online lottery syndicate also won in last night's draw - only £7.20, but heck that's better than nothing.

Cost of entering for me? £1.50 for the ticket I bought at the Tesco till !!

Could 2008 be our lucky year on the Lottery?

2008-07-18T07:31:00.000-07:00

Well we must admit, having done so well in the first five months of the year, it has been a bit of a roller coaster ride at home, with ever increasing fuel prices and gas & electricity prices, we need to do something to keep the home fires burning.

At least we may not win the lottery, but we continue expanding our wins on the online syndicate's mutli-win system provided by Virtual World Direct, as well as earning some healthy commission - all that and we are playing the lottery for free !!

Since January 2008, we have now earned a total of £385 in commission - this is turning playing the UK National Lottery into a real business opportunity

But do you win with the system? Well in our experience, the answer has to be a definite yes - since the start of 2008, we have had 9 wins on the UK National Lottery (totalling £937 for our syndicate) and 14 wins on the Euromillions Draw (totalling £904 for our syndicate). That can't be bad!

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2008-07-01T14:37:00.000-07:00

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What a great Start to 2008

2008-06-01T03:58:00.000-07:00

Looking back over the first 5 months of 2008, we were astounded to see the increased levels of activity in our Virtual World Direct online lottery syndicate scheme.

Since January, out syndicate has won a total of 9 times on the weekly Euromillions draw (worth £872.60) and a further 6 times on the twice weekly UK National Lottery Draw (bringing in another £240).

Commission received from introducing other people into the scheme has also blossomed, with £272 in commission received to date.

Fingers crossed, this could be our lucky year!

Biggest Win on the Lottery So Far

2008-05-03T02:41:00.000-07:00

Wahey - I've had a bit of good news yet - not enough to let me give up work and retire, but I won my biggest win so far on last night's EuroMillions draw - the syndicate won a total of £811.60 for matching 3 balls.

All I need now is to win again tonight and it will cover my fuel bills for the week! Blimey, with the price of petrol I do wonder if its worth going to work sometimes - I'm currently spending £200+ a month on fuel - anyone got some better ideas (a bike is out of the question, as I'm 15 miles away from work)

Hmm - best cross my fingers and hope I carry on winning!

Why not join our lottery syndicate as an affiliate and start playing for free!

Building up your online business

2008-02-16T02:51:00.000-08:00

Well, 2008 has seen a good start to our online lottery syndicate (despite the downturn in the world economy). We have recruited 8 new people to our syndicate since the start of the year and are getting regular enquiries. Not only are we now playing both the UK National Lottery and the EuroMillions Draw for free, but we are also now earning a steady £11 extra per week in commission.

We have been using two important tools to promote our online business and have been pleasantly surprised by how effective they have proved.

The main driver is probably this blog, which is syndicated across several sites making it easier to find and drive people to our website. However, a new angle this year has been to start advertising on Facebook, where the ads can be targetted and you can pay around 34 cents for someone clicking on your advert, which makes it highly cost effective.

It will be interesting to see how this year pans out for our syndicate, but the outlook is good so far!

Why not join our lottery syndicate as an affiliate and start playing for free!

Office Lottery Syndicates

2008-01-24T13:21:00.000-08:00

The National Lottery loves to promote a winning syndicate team - especially when it can have a massive impact on a business - imagine all of your finance and payroll staff winning the lottery one Saturday, to find that by Tuesday, you have no-one to pay your suppliers or more importantly your remaining staff !!

It's a wonder the insurance companies have not caught onto this and offered all business insurance cover for this eventuality. Mind you the odds against it happening are so horrendous, it would be an excellent money making opportunity for insurers!

On the other hand, how many staff would love the opportunity to stick two fingers up to their bosses when on Monday morning a whole department turn up just to hand their notice in and then go down the pub to celebrate?

I remember one lottery syndicate which was run within a legal firm I used to work for - there were 20 players in the syndicate, basically all of the support staff and one or two solicitors. Even with that support over 2 1/2 years, I think we won a grand total of about £60 (or £3 each).

Had I known about Virtual World Direct's Online Lottery Syndicate I would have recommended that we use the £20 per week to sign up with VWD - after paying £4.99 to become an affiliate, plus £5pw, the first person could introduce 3 others each paying £5pw. All four would be the trustees for the office Lottery Syndicate and for an outlay of the same £20pw, the office syndicate would no longer receive just 20 lines on the Saturday lottery draw, but actually receive 176 lines on both the Wednesday and Saturday lottos, plus getting £3 back per week in affiliate fees.

Suddenly the dreams of sticking it to the bosses seem a whole lot nearer, with a total of 352 lines per week on the lottery, this is equivalent to the office lottery playing over 17 weeks.

An interesting concept indeed - now all we need is to find 20 willing volunteers at work....

Diet Adverts

2008-01-13T13:31:00.000-08:00

Well I was surprised today to spot online a typical diet advert "Lose 10 pounds in a week" - it must be wonderful to see these adverts and think, yeah I need to lose 10 pounds, I'm sure that will help - after all they are advertising on Google.

Well I can show you quite easily how to lose 10 pounds in a week, without any need for exercise or changing your diet - simply send £10 by PayPal to me.

Hang on - surely there's a catch??

Well no, if you do this you will definitely lose 10 pounds in a day, let alone a week!
Actually we are not talking of 10 pounds in weight, but 10 pounds in money. Should teach you to read the terms and conditions beforehand and make sure you know exactly what you are getting for your money.

At least with the Virtual World Direct's Online Lottery Syndicate scheme you know precisely that - for your 10 pounds a week, you are given the two sets of lottery numbers which you will be playing and can check them against the National Lottery midweek and Saturday draws (shown on TV) and against the National Lottery Euromillions Draw numbers on a Friday night.

Can you play the National Lottery for Free and even run it as a business?

2007-12-30T01:05:00.000-08:00

As we reach the end of 2007, we have decided to look back at the year and see whether Virtual World Direct has been worth the effort of marketing, writing this blog and promoting our own lottery syndicate.

Well, throughout the year, we have played on both the UK's National Lottery Syndicate and the EuroMillions draw syndicate at the princely sum of £10 per week to cover entries in the three draws per week.

We have received a commission cheque for the year, totalling £62.50, and have also won £41.30 during 2007. Against this, we have had to pay out £107.34 in entry fees (the rest of the fees were deducted from commission earned). Overall for 2007, we have therefore made a net loss of £3.54 - hardly anything to write home about, and have had the chance of winning a lot more money tax free.

We have introduced 115 people to the scheme and have a downline of 10 people playing underneath us on a regular basis.

Overall, the system appears to be working - it is not as easy to promote as we would have hoped, but then a quick look at ebay shows just how many people are trying to promote the scheme on there in the hopes of building their own downline and earning enough commission each week in order to play the lottery for free.

We will look again at our methods of promotion and whether there is anything better we can do. We would welcome comments from people who have successfully introduced others to Virtual World Direct's Online Lottery Syndicate scheme and hopefully we can share ideas.

We are (nearly) managing 49 entries per week into the two UK National Lotto draws and 41 entries per week into the National Lottery EuroMillions draw, effectively for free. We are also building a business out of this, with more and more people being introduced via our website and blog. Give it another 12 months and we should hopefully see positive returns out of this.

Fingers crossed we can do better next year !

Saving The Planet (or maybe just money?)

2007-11-16T12:43:00.000-08:00

We have long promoted the benefits of working to benefit the planet - we have worked for many years with the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers, undertaking practical conservation tasks, up to our armpits in mud building a footpath, or even breaking the ice on a pond in the winter to do some pond clearance in the middle of a snow-storm.

For the saner amongst us out there, you really should look to save energy. Leaving appliances on standby is one of the major culprits with many televisions using over 10% of their normal power just to keep you from having to cross the room to press the on/off switch. With the advent of digital TV, this is made worse, as many set top boxes use almost as much power on standby as when being used !!

We have found an excellent little gadget - the "Bye Bye Standby" which comes as a set of plugs which can be operated remotely using wireless technology - you can either turn them off individually or as part of a group. Ideal for switching off the sky box downstairs on a night after watching a film on the upstairs TV !! This is not too pricey and we have even found that the cheapest place to purchase Bye Bye Standby is Tesco Direct. With a starter kit consisting of one remote control and 3 remote plugs, this was simple to install and should save some money in the first six months.

Now all we need is someone to offer us a solar heating system - now that would be excellent, particularly as we have a south facing roof. However, it is hard to justify over £4,000 for such a system, even if it might help save the planet.

Time to Take Stock

2007-11-16T12:32:00.000-08:00

OK, we have been trying out this lottery scheme now for a while - and yes it is working for us - we have had a few wins over the months, although nothing to write home about alas - mind you it is nice to log onto Virtual World Direct every once in a while and see the number of people who are checking out the site having read our website or blog (thanks). It is also nice to see that we do sometimes win (unlike playing on the lottery on your own, where you are lucky to win £10 a year!!).

In fact we have introduced 111 people to the site and our syndicate has won £1050 on the EuroMillions Draw since April, but only £320 on the National Lottery draw.

I guess it is a bit like the other much better known social networking sites, such as Avon, which has proved a successful business model over the years, but does really rely on you referring other people to sign up with them in order to achieve better earnings. Surprising really that most of the people we introduce only join up as Players and not as affiliates - maybe they don't want to try and earn free entries into the lottery.

We have had a look at the new scheme which Virtual World Direct are offering - uVme and we must admit that we are confused as to what exactly it offers. It appears to be a social networking site where you can play games against other members and maybe win some money, but unlike Facebook and Faceparty, you have to pay to join the site and earn money for introducing others. Seems as though this is not well thought out - I cannot see the site appealing to many people and it is expensive to join.

Making Money and Saving Your Bacon

2007-10-27T04:31:00.000-07:00

OK, maybe not lottery related, but we thought we ought to share a couple of products which we have investigated recently:

Just some useful tips and ideas

OK, we all need to think about anti-virus software and a firewall, but do we take the plunge and spend money on it or risk our data and personal details with one of the free ones, or Microsoft's own firewall (which is heavily attacked).

Having looked at the options, we have taken the plunge of renewing our subscription with Symantec and purchased their Norton 360 product, which is quicker than previous versions of Norton Internet Security (so it does not tie the system up as much), has faster scanning, provides its own firewall and antivirus protection and much more.

The advantages of Norton 360 are that it also provides regular backups of your data (full or incremental backups) and also provides 2GB free online storage for you to store your most important files, in case of the all too drastic hard disk failure. One of the bonuses is that when you look at the price tag, of £59.99, this may appear very high, but often PC World has discounted offers and you also must remember that this now includes the facility to install it on 3 computers in the same household, so that works out at just under £20 per PC !!

Not too bad when you think of the damage that one virus can do.

The other trick for this month, has to be to look at switching to the Alliance & Leicester's current account - it still offers the best rate of interest of any current account (6.5% fixed until Jan 2009), excellent online service and you only need fund it with £500pm (most other similar accounts need minimum funding of £1000pm). Keep your eyes open for special offers too - they often offer very high interest bearing savings accounts if you open them at the same time as a current account.

Well worth the small bit of paperwork it takes to switch

2007-08-10T00:48:00.000-07:00

So what has been happening?

Well postal strikes abound and the British summer has made us all want to head for sunnier climes, but without that big win, can we really afford it? The UK job market and economy looks fairly healthy at the moment, but house prices continue to soar out of the reach of many people.

Wouldn't it just be great to win the estimated £6.5 million pound lottery rollover this weekend?

Well, we have been pushing the merits of the Virtual World Direct lottery syndicate scheme hard and are pleased that at least 18 people have signed up for more information or playing the free to enter £1,000 draw since we started in April.

What is more, we ahve now signed up 8 people to the scheme, so our £5 per week entry fee is now earning us £9 per week in commission. This is working, so we have joined the eruomillions draw syndicate as well for another £5 per week.

Since the post on 28th June, our syndicate has now won a further £222.80 - not bad really as it doesn't even involve a trip down to the local shop to buy a ticket.

Go on, give it a chance - you never know your luck.

2007-06-28T00:19:00.000-07:00

Well this e-lottery site is actually starting to show signs of turning into a business.

Over the past few weeks, we have signed up another few players - we are now up to 6 fellow affiliates and 5 players, earning us £13 a week to offset against the costs of playing (£10).

Since the last post (10th June), our lottery syndicate has won a further £48.70, so not too bad on that score either. We have received a cheque as well, so we know that the scheme is cosha.

Go on - give it a try - maybe you can do even better than we are doing - visit Virtual World Direct.

News After Holidays

2007-06-10T01:11:00.000-07:00

Well, having just returned from a holiday in the Lake District (who says it rains all the time?) I thought it would be worth taking stock of the current position.

Since starting this blog in April, we have won a grand total of £1.64 on the UK National Lottery - hmm not too good - only 2 wins. However, on the EuroMillions draw, we have fared rather better, with 9 wins, totalling £18.08 - that means that our Syndicate has won a total of £803.56 in around 10 weeks.

What is more, we have now signed up a total of 5 people to the syndicate scheme and are now playing effectively for free.

We also noticed that the free to enter twice weekly £1000 draw has also been rehashed, making it much more user friendly and appealing.

Hmm - maybe this Virtual World Direct - Affiliate Scheme system could just work.

2007-05-17T00:06:00.000-07:00

Great another win on 11th May 2007 (only £6.80 for our syndicate matching one number on the EuroMillions Draw, but it all mounts up) - been a while since we have won anything on the National Lottery, so fingers crossed for this weekend.

We have also signed up a couple more people to the scheme - only need one more person and we will be playing for free !!

This system does actually seem to work by the look of it, so why not give it a try.

2007-05-05T00:51:00.000-07:00

OK, so where are we and is this scheme working for us yet?

Well our latest winnings have been another £3.31 on last night's EuroMillions Draw (our syndicate won £129.10 for matching 2 main numbers).

We have a couple of people signed up for the free weekly draw and another 2 people signed up under our affiliate program, meaning that we earn £2 per week to offset against the cost of entry.

Well it is better than nothing - over the last week, we have therefore only had to pay out £10-(£3.31+£2) = £4.69 to have multiple entries in both the Wednesday and Saturday UK National Lottery draw and the Friday night EuroMillions Draw.

OK, so we are still not in the black, but at least it is getting cheaper to play and there is always the chance of winning a bigger sum !!

Rich