The Secret World of Facebook Raffle Pages

People are using private Facebook pages for their main income source — bringing in thousands a month and spending nothing.

Megan Benson
4 min readJan 3, 2021
Photo by Kristina Flour on Unsplash

This is a whole new world for me, Facebook raffle pages. Maybe I’m naïve, however I had no idea people can make thousands of dollars a month off of a raffle page on Facebook, or as they like to call them — a waffle page. Facebook doesn’t support raffle pages so people refer to them as “waffle pages” to avoid getting their page shut down by Facebook.

These pages are against Facebook’s terms and conditions as far as raffles or giveaways go, but people have been doing these raffles for years and getting away with it. According to Facebook the only pages that should hold a raffle is a non-profit.

How it works?

Typically, you get invited to one of these private pages by someone you know which automatically builds the trust in the page and process. I personally was added to a farm raffle page, and I have participated in bidding. I do have to admit at first I was very concerned I wouldn’t get the products I won, and was surprised when they started showing up.

I actually ended up winning a $1,500 incubator and hatching set from GQF for…

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Megan Benson

Utah. Mother. Urban Farmer. Teen Mom. Fitness. Family. Crime Junkie. TBI Survivor.