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You know those supercar giveaways at the airport you think nobody ever wins? Actually, they do. We meet the man behind it and some of the winners
BOTB CEO William Hindmarch single handedly setup the car competition business in 1999He first operated out of Heathrow terminal 4 with a Porsche he had to wash with bottles of EvianNow thousands of people play his spot the ball contest online every week for a range of 150 luxury carsThe reactions of all 52 winners a year are captured on camera and posted to YouTube and FacebookBy
Best of the Best, or BOTB, was set up by CEO William Hindmarch in 1999, and it's a business concept that's historically been rife with conspiracy, skepticism and very little trust.
But through the powers of social media, the walls of doubt surrounding the supercar giveaway company have started to crumble.
'It all started when I secured a spot in Heathrow terminal 4, as it was then, and managed to get hold of a black Porsche,' William explained to This is Money at a recent meeting.
'It arrived on a transporter at 11pm the night before we were due to open but it was covered in that orange sand we sometimes get when there's been a southern wind.
'Somehow I managed to get it into the airport on my own before it dawned on me that it needed to be washed. The only taps were in the toilets but the bucket I had wouldn't fit in the sinks. So I had to spend 20 on bottles of Evian from a machine to clean it with.
'I had about an hour of sleep and went back and started selling. At that moment I thought, am I wasting my time and is anyone ever going to buy a ticket?'
They did, and since then the company has flourished into a 60 employee strong force, though with a little help from YouTube.
'IT'S THE ONLY TIME I'M GOING TO GET A CHANCE TO OWN AN ASTON MARTIN'
Job: Director of a commercial flooring company
Car won: Aston Martin Vantage (in Feb 2016)
Do you still own it?'Yes. I thought about taking the cash that was offered instead but I asked myself, when will you get the chance to own an Aston Martin again? My daily driver is a Ford Fiesta van, so I drive two very different cars now. The Vantage sounds fantastic and goes like stink I'll keep it for a while.'
How often do you enter BOTB?'Every week,cartier watches tank fake. The wife says I need to win her a Range Rover Evoque. I was a pixel away from winning again this week.'
That's because the emotional reaction of one new lucky car winner is now documented on the video site for all to see each week, and it's had a monumental effect on the legitimacy of the giveaway competition people have doubted for years.
'Video has had a massive impact and social media really has become our friend,' William said as he details the first instance the video camera came out.
'We recorded it and put it on social media,cartier ballon bleu gold copy. He's taken BOTB from a one man operation at Heathrow to an online competition that's entered by thousands each week
How it worksIf you're unfamiliar with how the competition works, it is,fake cartier santos 100 mens watch, and always has been, a game of 'spot the ball'.
As gambling laws dictate, any competition entered where a winner is drawn purely out of chance is illegal, so the process has to have an element of skill in this case, placing a marker where you think a football was in a photograph before it was cleverly edited out.
You can do this online or at one of the branded booths at the airports and shopping centres BOTB operates in.
But it's not a case of revealing the balls true location after the weekly competition has ended. Not even William knows where it is,cartier de calibre copy, as the photographer who snaps the shots at amateur matches in Ireland Photoshops it out.
Instead, it's up to a group of judges to work out where they think the ball is, making the entire concept skill based. This expert panel has to have some credentials, though that's why it includes up to eight referees and former Arsenal and England legend, Sol Campbell.
Job: Project manager at a software company
Car won: Range Rover Sport (in June 2014)
Do you still own it?'No, a lorry driver wrote it off. I wasn't too unhappy about it though, as I really wanted a Jaguar F Type and had been playing to win one for some time. So I used the insurance pay out to buy one. Since then we've had our first child and I needed a family car, so I traded it in for an Audi A8.'
You know those supercar giveaways at the airport you think nobody ever wins? Actually, they do. We meet the man behind it and some of the winners
BOTB CEO William Hindmarch single handedly setup the car competition business in 1999He first operated out of Heathrow terminal 4 with a Porsche he had to wash with bottles of EvianNow thousands of people play his spot the ball contest online every week for a range of 150 luxury carsThe reactions of all 52 winners a year are captured on camera and posted to YouTube and FacebookBy
Best of the Best, or BOTB, was set up by CEO William Hindmarch in 1999, and it's a business concept that's historically been rife with conspiracy, skepticism and very little trust.
But through the powers of social media, the walls of doubt surrounding the supercar giveaway company have started to crumble.
'It all started when I secured a spot in Heathrow terminal 4, as it was then, and managed to get hold of a black Porsche,' William explained to This is Money at a recent meeting.
'It arrived on a transporter at 11pm the night before we were due to open but it was covered in that orange sand we sometimes get when there's been a southern wind.
'Somehow I managed to get it into the airport on my own before it dawned on me that it needed to be washed. The only taps were in the toilets but the bucket I had wouldn't fit in the sinks. So I had to spend 20 on bottles of Evian from a machine to clean it with.
'I had about an hour of sleep and went back and started selling. At that moment I thought, am I wasting my time and is anyone ever going to buy a ticket?'
They did, and since then the company has flourished into a 60 employee strong force, though with a little help from YouTube.
'IT'S THE ONLY TIME I'M GOING TO GET A CHANCE TO OWN AN ASTON MARTIN'
Job: Director of a commercial flooring company
Car won: Aston Martin Vantage (in Feb 2016)
Do you still own it?'Yes. I thought about taking the cash that was offered instead but I asked myself, when will you get the chance to own an Aston Martin again? My daily driver is a Ford Fiesta van, so I drive two very different cars now. The Vantage sounds fantastic and goes like stink I'll keep it for a while.'
How often do you enter BOTB?'Every week,cartier watches tank fake. The wife says I need to win her a Range Rover Evoque. I was a pixel away from winning again this week.'
That's because the emotional reaction of one new lucky car winner is now documented on the video site for all to see each week, and it's had a monumental effect on the legitimacy of the giveaway competition people have doubted for years.
'Video has had a massive impact and social media really has become our friend,' William said as he details the first instance the video camera came out.
'We recorded it and put it on social media,cartier ballon bleu gold copy. He's taken BOTB from a one man operation at Heathrow to an online competition that's entered by thousands each week
How it worksIf you're unfamiliar with how the competition works, it is,fake cartier santos 100 mens watch, and always has been, a game of 'spot the ball'.
As gambling laws dictate, any competition entered where a winner is drawn purely out of chance is illegal, so the process has to have an element of skill in this case, placing a marker where you think a football was in a photograph before it was cleverly edited out.
You can do this online or at one of the branded booths at the airports and shopping centres BOTB operates in.
But it's not a case of revealing the balls true location after the weekly competition has ended. Not even William knows where it is,cartier de calibre copy, as the photographer who snaps the shots at amateur matches in Ireland Photoshops it out.
Instead, it's up to a group of judges to work out where they think the ball is, making the entire concept skill based. This expert panel has to have some credentials, though that's why it includes up to eight referees and former Arsenal and England legend, Sol Campbell.
Job: Project manager at a software company
Car won: Range Rover Sport (in June 2014)
Do you still own it?'No, a lorry driver wrote it off. I wasn't too unhappy about it though, as I really wanted a Jaguar F Type and had been playing to win one for some time. So I used the insurance pay out to buy one. Since then we've had our first child and I needed a family car, so I traded it in for an Audi A8.'
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