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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.
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 only $60 in tickets!
There have been other wins for me as well, some big and some small.
If you simply search the term “waffle” on Facebook under the groups section, you will see hundreds of raffle pages.
Starting a raffle page isn’t as easy as you would think. You have to build the trust that you’re not a scam, this can take months of work and finding the right people to join your group.
Rules on these pages are generally the same
- Only admins and moderators can post items for a raffle, if a moderator posts they have to pay a fee to an admin each time. Admins can bring in an additional $200-$500 a month just from these fees, they split them at the end of the month between the admins.
- You bid on however many spots are open on a raffle and pay when all the spots have been bid on. Typically, this is done on PayPal…
