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All right – now you've seen some pretty
pictures of what we're giving away
– ten dream homes in Spain
worth 5 million euros.
($7m or £3.5m)
(If you missed seeing the slideshow,
click HERE.)
Now let me tell you how you can grab a chance
to own one of these gems and what
it could mean for you:
You're luxuriating in the warm sunshine on your private terrace, gazing down at the deep blue of the Mediterranean in the distance, a sweet breeze from the valley bringing you the mixed scents of pine and the sea.
It's so peaceful, with only the silver music of the birds that congregate on this wooded peak and the distant bells of faraway sheep. It's your place, and it didn't cost you anything. Does life get any better?
And two months later, you're drifting off to sleep and your mind wanders back to your private hideaway in Spain and you think about the fact that this very night, while you are sleeping, someone will be stuffing money into your account as fat rental for your property, the use of your handmade beds with the down pillows and Ralph Lauren's best sheets.
It's income with no work on your part. As we said, does life get any better?
And two years later, you need to value your property for a new insurance policy and are pleased to learn that it has appreciated significantly from the
250/500,000 euro value it had when it came into
your possession.
There is a lesson here: if your house was designed by Pedro Otzoup, one of Spain's leading architects, and it has a view of the sea, and is in a protected area where no tasteless development is allowed, then your property is going to keep on going up in value. Quality always appreciates.
Now you might want to know why I'm giving these properties away ...
(And why this is an offer that is good
for both of us).
It's because I got angry. Furious. Enraged.
Angry at slimy Mafia money launderers, the US Congress, bungling property agents and a greedy hotel corporation.
They all spurred me to offer you what one responsible authority called ...
"An Irresistible Property Giveaway,
Surely Unique in the World..."
"It's totally above board and everything will be scrutinised
by independent auditors.
Ten winners will net either a villa or one-bedroom
studio apartment."
The Sunday Express, London
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This is the view from all of the private terraces of the ten houses and studios in my giveaway. You could sit here, owning this view, and owning
the house it belongs to.
I'm George Scott of Scott's Hotels, two celebrated boutique hotels in the Mediterranean, and I cordially invite you to put your name in the hat for our property giveaway.
The giveaway is legal and legitimate, safe and secure.
Your potential reward is enormous.
All you have to do is acquire one of our hotel vouchers.
That entitles you to a free number in the ten draws – ten winning chances per voucher.
By using your voucher in our hotels, you get all your money back and you still keep your chance to win a house or studio.
That's what makes it a giveaway.
You can get your money back after the ten draws.
Or even before the draws, and still take part.
If for any reason you can't use your vouchers in our hotels, you can give them away or sell them on eBay or Craigslist or through a travel agent to get your money back.
They're good until the end of 2012.
And you have a 100% no quibble money-back-for-any-reason guarantee. |
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Grand Giveaway Celebrations
After the final draws, all the winners will be invited, with a guest, to a three day party at our expense (only flights not included).
We'll wine and dine our winners, accommodate you in our best rooms. During the event, all the legal papers of transfer will be executed, keys handed over, and our winners will be legally registered with the Spanish property authorities.
Since all the properties need to be registered at the same time, early winners will trade their provisional documents for permanent ones during the three day festivities. |
"If I had any doubts because this offer seemed almost too good to be true, they were dissolved by Mr Scott's no quibble money-back-guarantee ..."
Tom Sheldrake, Chicago Press Bureau
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Let me be absolutely clear. I'm neither stupid nor unrealistic. I know this sounds almost too good to be true. But I've figured out a way for us both to have our cake and eat it too - you can get a free ticket to ten prize drawings where you might win a house worth 500,000 euros (£350,000 or $700,000) and I get my price for my houses and studios and more visitors to our hotels.
Let me prove to you the proposition really is as good as it sounds. And I'll also tell you later how the US Congress and the Mafia were involved.
The prize properties share this pool, the bar,
a sauna, exercise room and three acres
(1.4 hectares) of gardens.
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Here's how it works ...
We are offering a limited tender of 33,333 hotel vouchers. No more, no fewer.
Each voucher carries a number from 1 to 33,333.
As the drawings progress over the next few months, ten random voucher numbers will be chosen and the holders of those ten numbers each will win a house or a studio.
You could be among them.
Prizes to die for ...
The prizes are worth from 250,000 to 500,000 euros each - £175,000 to £350,000 or $350,000 to $700,000..
More to the point, they're prizes that reach out and squeeze your heart: designed by a famous architect, delectably comfortable, charmingly furnished, stunningly located.
And the icing on these cakes is that you can rent them out for fat income.
Probably the world's best odds ...
Your odds of winning are 10 in 33,333 or 20 in 33,333 for two vouchers, 30 in 33,333 for three, etc.
The odds of winning the most common lotteries are 1 in 14,000,000 to 1 in 80,000,000. The odds of winning most sweepstakes are even more astronomical.
With us you can get your money back even before the draws...
Your hotel vouchers may be redeemed for their full value - your money back - in either of our hotels until the end of 2012, either before or after the prize draws.
Or you may sell them.
Or give them away.
And there's a no-quibble money back guarantee ...
You can ask for 100% of your money back for any reason at all, anytime until you've taken part in a prize draw.
The whole project is legal, legitimate, and simple.
The potential return is enormous.
The odds are exceptional.
It's safe, secure and guaranteed.
"It really does seem that Scott Properties is making an offer no reasonable person could turn down. Their hotel vouchers offer all the advantages of a raffle or lottery ticket, but may also be used for a stay in their exquisite hotels so that your chances to win a house or studio come free. Altogether a remarkable opportunity to win ten lovely properties, and having stayed there last season I can attest to how truly spectacular they are..."
Roger Taylor in The Islander Magazine
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To get your vouchers and free giveaway tickets, click HERE
All the private terraces have this view, and all are
truly private, and not overlooked.
Ten Properties, Ten Draws
First draw: Autumn, 2007. One Studio to be Drawn
Second drawings: Three Studios Draw scheduled for early in 2008, or 11,000 vouchers sold.
Third drawings: Three Studios Draw in Spring of 2008, or 22,000 vouchers sold.
Fourth Drawings: Three House Draw in Summer, 2008, or when all the vouchers are sold.
Timings are estimated and may be subject to adjustment.
What people are saying to us about the giveaway
Thank you, George, for the opportunity to be able to say something nice about your great idea. This is me standing on the terrace of one of the prizes last summer. It's really as wonderful a place as you describe and we are visiting again before they are raffled.
Edna Morrison, Edinburgh
I looked at this as a lawyer and read all the fine print in the offer and on the legal page. I also looked you up in the company register for Delaware. I am satisfied with your offer which is why I bought two vouchers. Good luck.
Tom Donnelly, Bethesda, MD
Thank you for this chance. As teachers we could never afford to buy one of these villas, but now we can hope to win one ... and we'll see you in your beautiful hotel next month.
Amanda Fletcher, Bradford, Yorks
Dear Scotts - we loved our stays in both your places and wish you well with the new project. We have got vouchers for everyone in the family and hope one of us wins. If not, we'll rent from the new owners. Thank you for giving us the chance.
Sarah and Ed Stafford, The Hague
My wife says this is me full of hope to win a villa to give to our grandkids. We could never afford to buy them something so nice, but will come to your hotel and get the free ticket for the raffle. Congratulations on a great idea.
Fred Stanicki, Sarasota FL
To join these nice people, click HERE |
Aren't We Fashionable?
Look who you just might spy having a coffee nearby: Rafael Nadal, Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones, Annie Lennox, Claudia Schiffer, Boris Becker, Michael Schumacher, Antonio Banderas, Andrew Lloyd- Weber, Katherine Hammett, all of whom have houses close to us. As to visitors, the list is endless. As I write this, Sting, Pierce Brosnan, Goldie Hawn and Rod Stewart are here, and of course the King, who spends time at his palace here every year, usually taking part in the yacht races that bear his name. And 300 feet from our front door, Tony Curtis used to have a house, though that was some years back. Still, for those who watch celebs, they're always underfoot everywhere, and a few of them stay with us to try to avoid the paparazzi. |
Some photos of the Prize Properties ...
 
  
 
 
For detailed descriptions of the properties, and individual photos, you can follow a link on our "Everything Else" page later on in the site.
To get your vouchers and free giveaway tickets, click HERE.
About getting your voucher and your free number to take part in the ten draws ...
How you can take part in the giveaway draws free:
You purchase a hotel voucher from us. 
We give you a free ticket for the giveaway draws. 
You use the hotel voucher in our hotels and we take its value off your bill.
Which leaves you with the free ticket for the property draws.
When the draws take place, you could win a house worth up to 500,000 euros (£350,000 or $700,000).
Everyone who visits our hotels using a voucher takes part in the draws free.
If you can't visit our hotels ...
You purchase a hotel voucher from us.
And we give you that free ticket for the draws.
Even if you never come to the hotels to use the hotel voucher, you have both a voucher and a free ticket to participate in the giveaway.
So you just wait until the ten winning tickets have been drawn.
If you've won, great, you have a new house or studio.
If you haven't won, you still have your hotel voucher and you can sell it. It's good for five years and can be used or sold anytime until the end of 2012.
*Please note that we do not send out paper vouchers or tickets for security reasons and that the ticket/voucher images above are for explanatory purposes only, not photos of what you will receive.
If you've read enough and just want to get on and get one, click HERE.
"It must be the only giveaway and hotel promotion
in the world where you can't lose.
And that's guaranteed."
LGM Media
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But is there a catch?
Yes. To use your voucher we ask you to stay at least three nights with us in a deluxe room or a suite. That way you'll spend about four times the amount you paid for your voucher. About four times the amount we give you back.
And if you do the numbers, you'll see this formula gives us our price for the properties, and taking the voucher cost off your bill is about the same for us as paying a commission to an agent if you booked online or with an agency.
Believe me, we're not a charity for people who want a free holiday home in Spain.
Our 18th century townhouse hotel is in an authentic and untouristy
medieval village in the island's wine country.
"We went back to Scott's Hotel for the handmade beds and the goosedown pillows, the Ralph Lauren sheets and the breakfasts until noon.
Not even to mention the warm, low key no-fuss ambience we liked the first time.
But this time we walked out with what may be our deed to a dream home in Spain.
What a hotel! What a deal!"
Mandy and John Carlisle, Manchester
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To get your vouchers and free giveaway tickets, click HERE. |
In Google, Scott's ranks as No. 1 for "Small luxury hotels, Mallorca" and as the No. 1 hotel listing (excluding agents) for "Small hotels, Mallorca" and for "Mallorca hotels" and "Majorca hotels" and "hotels Majorca" and "Best hotels Majorca" and "Best hotels Mallorca". Scott's is also
No. 1 for "Comfortable hotels, Mallorca".
Google is absolutely right.
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What the media have said about our townhouse hotel ...
"Elegant, luxurious, refined ... incomparable bedrooms."
Rivages Guide to Small Hotels of Charm
"One of the finest hotels I know in terms of comfort and discreet but warm service."
The New York Times
"A little jewel box, a rarity among hotels - one that doesn't feel like a hotel, look like a hotel, or offer the dry and standardized service of most hotels."
Condé Nast Traveler
"At Scott's, nothing disappoints: the interior is as calm, sophisticated and unobtrusively luxurious as you could wish . . . a pampering treat."
Charming Small Hotels Guide
" . . . a night at Scott's is an experience to remember."
Special Places to Stay
"One of the most comfortable and elegant small hotels in the Mediterranean."
Mediterranean Travel Review
"Scott's is a gem of a place - a fabulously restored mansion where the emphasis is firmly on comfort. Located in the heart of Mallorca's wine country."
Gourmet
The Sunday Times of London asked renowned hotel critic Alistair Sawday to name his six favourite hideaway hotels in Spain. Scott's was one of them. (And the only one on Mallorca)
Diran Noubar's List of the World's Fifty Best Small Hotels includes Scott's.
(Frankly, we think this is plain silly, but there's no way I'm not going to tell you about it.)
Small Elegant Hotels, A Connoisseur's Guide: Scott's is one of only three hotels listed for the whole of Spain.
Great Places to Stay in Europe: Features Scott's.
About Hotels Guide: Scott's is named as one of their very few "Fabulous Finds".
To invest in a voucher and get a free ticket for the draws,
click HERE
Questions People Ask ...
Somebody will win this property. Ten somebodies will win properties.
There's no reason you can't be among them.
Is it like a raffle?
Yes – we are issuing 33,333 tickets/vouchers and 10 of them will win a house or a studio.
No – in a raffle you lose all your money once the raffle is over. With us, even after the ten raffle draws you still have a hotel voucher worth every cent you paid for it. Win or lose.
Is it like a hotel promotion?
Yes - we are giving you a huge incentive to visit our hotels, stay with us a few nights. When you stay with us, we take the full price of your voucher off your bill so your tickets for the draws are free.
No - we aren't forcing you to visit us. If you invest in a hotel voucher and you don't win a house or studio, and can't visit us because you live too far away, you can still sell your voucher anytime before the end of 2012.
Is it a scam?
Fair question, given there are so many of them around. But just ask yourself how many scammers give you the address where they live (see the Contact Us page), and how many scams offer you your money back, no questions asked. So if you don't believe any of this, just don't purchase a voucher, don't come to my hotels, and definitely don't win a house or studio. Not doing this will never hurt you. On the other hand it will never bring you joy.
Tell me about the money launderers and the US Congress's involvement.
Actually, it's such a long story that I've put it on another page. Basically, I got angry at all the people putting roadblocks in my way, which is why I decided to do this crazy fun project.
If you'd like to read that story, click HERE. But then come back to this page for the rest of this story.
The Holy Grail of Somethin' fer Nuthin':
We've all heard of TNSTAFL - There's No Such Thing as a Free Lunch. But what if there were? What if somebody actually figured out a way to offer you something valuable that didn't have to cost you anything at all?
If you'd like to take part, click HERE
If you're one of those people who likes to know every last
detail, there's much longer list of questions HERE
What's in this giveaway for you ...
- Hold one winning voucher and you'll be catapulted into a new life as the owner of a glamorous holiday property that brings you tens of thousands in rent each year, that you can lend to family or friends, enjoy yourself for many weeks every year, or even sell for a lump of cash between 250,000 and 500,000 euros.
- The prizes are glorious - lovely homes offering some of the best views in the Med, designed by one of Spain's most famous architects and furnished with handmade beds with goosedown pillows, Ralph Lauren's best sheets, tasteful decor and designer touches everywhere.
- Use your voucher to get your money back either before or after the ten drawings for the grand prizes. You get to stay at a discount in your choice of our hotels.
- Even if you choose not to enjoy a break in our award-winning hotels, you still have five years to sell or give away your voucher.
- You can't go wrong, can't possibly make a mistake by joining. There's a 100% money-back guarantee and the project is legal and legitimate, registered and ironclad.
- You are giving Fate, the Universe or Lady Luck a chance to bless you with a gift, offer you a reward you surely deserve.
What's in it for us ...
What we get is actually pretty simple:
- We get lots of people lined up outside our doors waiting to get in to stay with us.
- We say goodbye to fat advertising and promotional costs.
- We raise our occupancy rate, increase our income.
- We get a chance to sell you meals at our new restaurant on the corner, or drinks in our bar, rent you a car.
And of course, once you are here with us you'll spend more than just the amount on your vouchers.
Discounting your voucher doesn't actually
cost us anything ...
The key reason we're able to make this offer is that taking the voucher value off your bill doesn't cost us any more than paying a commission to an agent. But instead of paying them, we get to pay ourselves.
What works for you, works for us.
Not only that, but we've lured you across our threshold, tucked you under our wing, and 44% of the people who stay with us once come back for another visit, send friends or family, get addicted to the "Scott's experience".
So we build our client base, build our brand, build our reputation.
All that and we get our price for the ten properties as well as the fun of turning them over to real people - people who may have stayed with us, people we might even know personally.
If you'd like to invest now, just click the link HERE |
About George
George Scott has tried to live an interesting life. He financed three university degrees by washing pots and pans and selling encyclopedias door-to-door. The film he wrote and directed for his Fine Arts degree won the Hollywood Screen Directors Guild prize for Best Documentary of 1963. In his late twenties, he toured the world living in a decrepit VW camper bus and becoming fluent in Spanish and German. Then, for an eventful year, he managed a Liverpool rock band (but no, not that one!). In his thirties he made scads of money in the investment business, only to have it stolen by a famous corporate crook, still at large. Disillusioned with commerce, he worked with the World Wildlife Fund and then later started a stress education charity and ran it for sixteen years, at which point the cost of educating children made money again relevant. Gold and silver trading, property development, an earth resources satellite project and hotels and restaurants followed, plus two mystery novels, one of which became "Book of the Month" for Germany's biggest book club. George and his younger family live in Binissalem, Mallorca, and his eldest daughter and grandchildren live in Dorset. |
Part of one of the suites for voucherholders.
"Heaven! I've never stayed in any hotel so wholly satisfying. Everywhere is beautiful, with pretty details (candles among the plants and flowers on the patio at night). The oversized beds are a marvel, the goosedown pillows wonderful. Delicious breakfast, served until noon. The owners were charming hosts, appearing and fading like the Cheshire Cat - just enough to let us know they were there, but never intrusively."
The Good Hotel Guide, describing our townhouse hotel
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We know we're doing something right when people book us for next year
as they go out the door this year.
"Scott's new place (the prize properties) is at the southernmost end of the Tramuntana mountains and is one of the island's must stunning hideaways, with breathtaking views across the village rooftops to the sea beyond. One of Mallorca's hidden gems."
The Daily Mail: Five Mallorcan Gems
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Modern or traditional - every bedroom is individually styled.
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Everything you need
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economically, things
to see and do, hiring
a car and of course
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an honest, unbiased
comprehensive site.
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To get to where you can invest in a couple of vouchers, click HERE
"Never have the odds to win something so great
been so ridiculous!"
Paul Shedman's Chronicles
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Your stake in winning a prize
Just because we've removed all risk doesn't mean there isn't money involved.
The time has come to make a commitment, throw your penny in the wishing well.
We originally priced the tickets at 15 euros for each property - ten properties, ten drawings - for a total of 150 euros.
But of course we give you that ticket free.
And we made the odds 10 chances to win in 33,333.
That's 500 to 2,500 times better than the best lottery odds.
We figured 150 euros - £100 - $200 – was an amount almost anybody can find.
That's the amount we'll take off your bill when you visit us.
Calculating the odds - a mathematician's view
For the first drawing, we assume the number of people taking part will be approximately 7,000 and the value of the property to be $275,000. That's one chance in 7,000 for a return of $275,000, or a risk ratio aspect of $39.28 on a $200 ticket, a chance to win 1,375 times the capital price of the ticket (ignoring the fact that this amount is apparently refundable under given circumstances). On the second set of draws the odds are 3 draws in what we assume will be approximately 11,000 vouchers, but this time with the value of the properties rising to $345,000 each (a total of $1,035,000 to play for), with each voucher having a chance to win at a risk aspect of $31.25 or a chance to win 1,725 times the price of the voucher, (three times). The third set of drawings are similar, though we assume 22,000 vouchers taking part, but with the reward value rising to $483,000 each, or $1,449,000 total for the three winners, a chance to win 2,415 times the amount invested in the voucher, again three times.. Finally, when the houses are raffled, it is our assumption that all 33,333 vouchers will participate so that the odds will be 3 in 33,333, but with the average value of the properties being $690,000, giving a risk ratio aspect of $20.70 and a chance to win 3,450 times the voucher value, again three times, with a total win potential of $2,070,000. The inescapable conclusion is that potential purchasers should enter the drawings as early as possible.
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A place to take a break for a nap after thinking about all those numbers.
"It's like buying a raffle ticket but being able to get
your money back after the raffle is over."
Caroline Chase in The Sentinel
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Let's sit down at one of our antique desks,
pour a
glass of wine, and list some reasons
why it makes good sense to join now...
- Because the odds and the winning potential are extraordinary.
- Because you're entered in multiple drawings, not just one.
- Because you can get back the amount you invest in your voucher if you use it in our hotels, so your ticket for the draws is free.
- Because even if you don't visit our hotels before the raffles, you're still in the draws and you have five years to use your vouchers, sell them, or give them away.
- Because what you win could change your life forever - give you cash if you sell your prize - give you income if you rent it out - give you a richer leisure life if you just use it for yourself or lend it to friends and family.
- Because the price of a voucher –150 euros - is so insignificant compared to the value of the prizes. What else might you do with that money - put it in your gas tank? Buy floor wax or kitty litter or overpriced ink cartridges for your printer? What fun.
- Because this isn't something you want to put off. Don't fall into the "good-intentions-not-acted-on trap". Anyone who has lived long enough will tell you that they have more regrets about the things they didn't do than the things they did.
But be advised ...
There's another reason you should make a positive decision now: the new Congress may change the law that makes this offer so ironclad for you. There have already been what they call "carve outs" - exceptions - made for poker players and horse race betting. Who is to say that property raffles might not be excepted? If they are, we might just go back to just selling raffle tickets without the "money-back" aspect.
Our guarantees ...
What do we guarantee you, absolutely?
- We guarantee absolutely to give you 100% of your voucher cost back for any reason whatsoever as long as you ask for it prior to your ticket having taken part in a prize draw.
- We guarantee this is a legal and legitimate offer you can invest in with full confidence. It seems sad to me to have to say that, but that's the world we live in today.
- We guarantee your 150 euro numbered and limited edition hotel vouchers will participate in the draws and we will credit you back the money you spent on them if you visit us before the end of 2012.
"If your idea of the best revenge is the chance of living rich as the result of a no risk flyer, then this one's a no-brainer."
The Stanford Investment Letter
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My final thoughts to you ...
Decisions like this are made in your heart. I've laid out the offer as plainly as I can, highlighting the advantages for you without inflated claims, letting you know it's an offer we stand behind with our reputation and personal integrity.
There are at least a dozen practical reasons for investing in this small, no-lose gesture toward sweetening your future, but please let me add my own belief that life has no meaning unless we live it with conviction and trust, unless we open our hearts to providence, unless we allow ourselves to take small stakes with destiny and offer our guardian angels a chance to light up our lives with a sweet gift of luck.
If you choose to join our band of lovers of the good life in Spain, I wish you luck in the draws and hope to meet you in our hotels.
Trust your angel and go for it.
PS I have no more words, just the warm wish that we might meet when I hand you the keys to one of the properties. If you're ready to blow a kiss to Dame Fortune, click HERE
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