DUBAI, 11 July 2006 — Dubai, known to be a discount market, is becoming a city of mesmeric raffles and freebies. Whether it is summer or winter, it has striking offers for all seasons. Millions of dollars and dirhams, kilos of gold, top-brand cars, diamonds, free insurance, a luxury apartment, LCD TVs, hotel accommodation and many more...
The city often produces instant millionaires. Residents and visitors win billions of cash through raffles and free coupons.
Dubai and Abu Dhabi Duty Frees have been offering huge amounts as prize money. While Dubai offers $1-million against a 1,000-dirham coupon, Abu Dhabi offers 1 million dirhams for a ticket worth 500 dirhams. Abu Dhabi Duty Free also gives away 100,000 dirhams each for five winners in each draw.
A total of 61 people have won one million dollars each from Dubai Duty Free and hundreds of people earned millions of dirhams through Abu Dhabi Duty Free during the recent years. Many others have won millions of dirhams through Mashreq Bank millionaire and National Security Bond schemes.
Indians alone have won 29 million dollars through Dubai Duty Free Millionaire raffles during the last six years.
The on-going Dubai Summer Surprises too has a staggering 5 million dirhams on offer. DSS Grand Raffle, which started on June offers a 1/5,000 chance to win a 2006 BMW X5 4.8is in return of a 200-dirham ticket and 100,000-dirham in cash besides the individual promotion by the over 1,000 participating outlets under the Summer Deals promotion. The raffle will run throughout the DSS and draws will be held subsequently to choose a winner out of a lot of 5,000 each.
