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A couple who decided to raffle off their £400k home received death threats and abuse - now they're trying the process again.
Jennifer Matthews decided to get rid of her and her husband David decided to sell their five-bed detached home in an unusual way after she was diagnoses with a life-threatening heart condition in December 2020.
The normal selling process was complicated due to the Covid pandemic, and after being bombarded with viewing requests when lockdown was lifted Jennifer struggled to cope with the exhaustion. So she and David went the unorthodox road of raffling off the dream home they had built from scratch along with her prized Ferrari 360 Spider.
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Jennifer, who had been diagnosed with ventricular tachycardia in 2016, put their home in Adlington on Raffall; an online forum used to host competitions. Strict rules and regulations meant that the couple were limited in how the raffle was managed and what information could be disclosed which led to them being inundated with conspiracy theories and scam accusations.
"What happened with this bonkers journey was that we got an awful lot of flak," Jennifer, now 51, told LancsLive. "We got death threats and people who had entered and didn't win became obsessed and said it was a scam."
"It brought out every kind of individual in society and there was even a hate group set up. But we have learned from it."
The raffle for the stunning home in Adlington brought in more than 452,000 tickets each sold for £2 but legal fees alone cost the couple £110,000. The raffle was won by a man from Birmingham who sold the house - but has kept the Ferrari - in order to pay for his two daughters' weddings.
Since her diagnosis Jennifer,
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