Brian and Michelle Jones have decided to give away their luxury log chalet in Bulgaria.

Having taken 3 years to source and build, the solid wood cabin features three bedrooms, a large basement games room and sits on its own 600m² plot overlooking the river and forest.

The prize also includes a brand new 4x4 off-road vehicle, or 2 off-road bikes. In addition, the winner will be given return flights for 2 people from the nearest airport to Bulgaria, including transfers to Bansko to pick up the keys to the chalet prize at a champagne reception.

The British couple also aim to organise a guided tour of the local ski resort plus a holiday activity of the winner's choice - choose from skiing, horse riding, quad biking, wolf/bear watching, guided hikes, guided mountain biking or jeep safari (all choices are time of year dependent).

20% of the profit from this house competition are intended for BSAPP (Bulgarian Society for Animal Protection & Preservation). The remainder is expected to be used to establish premises for a dog sanctuary for stray dogs.

Main features of the chalet:

• Spacious Reception Hall
• Open Plan Living Area with Gallery Ceiling including Dining Room
• Sleeps up to 8
• Floor to ceiling 6 metre glass frontage
• Bespoke Hand Made Fitted Kitchen including all appliances
• Solid Wooden Floors throughout
• Galleried Second Floor Landing
• 2 large bathrooms
• Three Large Double Bedrooms all Fully furnished with local handmade furniture
• State of the Art Home cinema with 50" Plasma, Sky TV and Broadband Internet
• Central Heating, Double Glazed, Modern Gas Fire
• Rear terrace from master bedroom with views of village and Pirin Mountains
• Fully furnished large games room below with log fire, sofa-bed, pool-table, table-tennis and darts board.
• Garage and Storeroom
• Landscaped Garden enclosed with natural stone wall, plot extending to 600m²
• Views of Mountains all round
• Village behind and forest with stream full frontage
• 2 years Management contract included

Competition Outcome

This Win a House competition was hosted at: http://www.winacabin.co.uk

For all current house raffles and competitions visit the Win a House Competitions Directory

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Was this a con...?

Well, almost a month after the competition FINALLY closed and still no announcement of a winner!

I have emailed but as yet no reply..

It's starting to look like this is yet another "Win a house" competition to add to the failure/con list.

Sheitma Pance , 22 Jul 2009

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Re: Was this a con...?

@ Sheitma,

Thanks for your comment. We've been regularly checking for updates on the website but so far nothing has been published in the blog or the homepage.

I hope the organisers are able to provide some sort of guidance soon to address the concerns you are expressing. Given the competition was extended twice, I would expect most people who entered are now very keen to hear some news on the outcome of the contest.

We will continue monitoring the status of this competition and make sure to update this page as soon as we find out new information. In the meantime, if you do receive an update yourself, we would be grateful if you could share it with us here.

This is precisely the type of situation that erodes confidence in win a house competitions generally and we hope - for your sake as well as for anyone else that entered - that it can be clarified very soon.

Team Win House , 22 Jul 2009

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con ?

Well this is the first time I have ever been tempted to try to win a house but I was.
A long time has passed now since this competition ended so am not sure whether I have been conned or is there some legit reason - maybe someone knows??

les , 07 Aug 2009

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Trading Standards Involved..

Well, I too didn't get a reply after emailing.

I have contacted Trading Standards to ask them what's going on and apparently a lot of people have complained about this draw (Or lack of). Unfortunately, it seems they are unable to contact the organisers of the competition!!

To me, it certainly appears like a draw will not now take place.

I'd suggest anyone who is worried contacts trading standards and lodges a formal complaint. They should also contact their credit card company and request a "charge-back".

Anyone know how much the organisers raised via this "website"??

Steve

Steve_king , 12 Aug 2009

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Still no news...

I contacted the charity that this draw was supposed to be supporting and they, so far, have refused to comment!

Steve_king , 15 Aug 2009

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Update on Win a Cabin results

We just noticed the website has been updated with a blog post for July 2009:

"Firstly, apologies to all for the delay on the update. Unfortunately July has been a bad month for us on many many fronts not least of which it is puppy time of year and the villagers seem to think we like them being thrown over the fence at all hours!

Anyway. We have taken this time to evaluate the situation and we have decided thus. Despite managing to gain much national and international press coverage both from the house raffle perspective and the dog shelter, we haven’t made up nearly enough ticket sales to warrant drawing the house. In fact, after meeting with our accountants, they have advised us against even drawing the money prize as with the financial costs of doing so it would leave us even more out of pocket.

So, we have decided to stop the competition and pay back the money to everyone who has entered. [...]

All the monies are in holding with the payment service providers and as such we have had NO access to it (or any interest on the money). As the money came from numerous payment sources then we have to arrange different refunds. Simply email us with the ticket number and we will check the refund arrangements. {...]

Many thanks to all who entered, and to the brilliant members of the press who gave us time and exposure for our competition.

Brian & Michelle"

If you haven't received any email from the organisers, we suggest you contact them to arrange for the refund of your tickets.

Team Win House , 08 Sep 2009

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email reply from owners

Received this after enquiring about my ticket purchase. Must check with my credit card company if it actually went out. Also I forgot about consumer rights when purchase for goods or services with a credit card - shame the draw didn't go ahead.
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Many thanks for your entry at the time and the support.

With regards to your tickets, you were never actually charged for your
ticket in April. The credit card details were held by the bank and would only be charged when the competition closes (Bank Stipulation). As it is not being drawn, the bank has been told to destroy all the credit card details.

Once again, many thanks for the support.

les , 01 Oct 2009

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Re: email reply from owners

@ Les,

Thank you very much for sharing this update with everyone, this is very helpful. If anyone hasn't received any message from the organisers yet, we recommend you ask them again for confirmation and check your credit card statement regardless. Thanks again!

Team Win House , 01 Oct 2009

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Mr

Still waiting for my money back 4 tickets purchased, my friend said it was a con

Chris Sackville , 10 Nov 2010

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