Set up by Keira and Gordon Crawford, Good Vibes Giveaways is a competition website that offers generous prizes and donates a percentage of the profits to local charities.
Unlike similar online sites, the odds of winning are actually fairly high as tickets are limited for each prize.
“Some people have won two or three times,” said Gordon.
A joiner by trade who has given his services free to charities in the past, he is hoping the new business can grow to give substantial support to people in need in Central Scotland.
However Keira admits that there are now so many online scams it is sometimes difficult to persuade people that the website is genuine even though they are the sponsor for football websites HeartsStandard.co.uk and HibsObserver.co.uk.
“We recognise that people are wary of being scammed, but we are a local, family run business and we are completely legitimate,” said Keira.
“Sometimes when we post on Facebook we get comments saying we are scammers but we are trying to show we are ordinary people who are trying to put something back into the community.”
There is a list of past winners and prizes on the website and the raffles are drawn live online. A recent win was a Samsung, 55 inch, ultra HD TV .
“The woman who won bought a couple of tickets so she won the TV for £1.98,” said Gordon.
Current raffles are the Oasis tickets, a Harvey Nichols advent calendar, a 10.9 inch silver iPad; however the prizes change almost every week.
There are 350 tickets costing £1.99 each for the Harvey Nichols advent calendar and 400 tickets for sale for the iPad at £1.99 each. The Oasis draw, which is offering the winner two tickets, costs £2.99 and there are 999 tickets for sale.
“Someone could be in line for a bumper Christmas just by shelling out not very much,” said Gordon.
