> Comparing 7days Performance? What their own site publishes about entry caps, the free postal route and cash alternatives, and what a cash-only draw does differently. Source: https://granddraws.co.uk/7days-performance-alternatives-uk --- # 7days Performance alternatives **They publish an entry cap on every competition, a per-person limit, a free postal route, and a cash alternative figure printed on the car itself.** The caps are very large, one we checked allowed up to 2,999,999 entries, but a cap is the most a draw can hold, not what it sold, and their own page says the draw happens whether or not it sells out. Here is how to read that properly, and what a cash-only draw does instead. ## The number that gets misread A maximum of nearly three million entries looks alarming beside a draw capped at twenty thousand, and it would be easy for us to quote it as though it were the odds. It is not. A cap is a ceiling. Their competition page says the draw takes place regardless of sell-out, and the one we looked at showed 11 per cent sold. That is the same way we ask you to read our own numbers: the cap is the worst case, and if the draw does not fill, everybody in it does better. Applying that logic to ourselves and not to them would make this page worthless. What the cap does give you, on both sites, is the ability to do the sum at all. [A published ceiling is a denominator](https://granddraws.co.uk/chances-of-winning); an open-ended draw has none. ## The cash alternative, and the bit worth asking about Their listings print a cash alternative on the prize, and the figures are substantial: the examples we saw ran from £22,000 on a Focus RS to £105,000 on a two-car bundle. That is useful, and more than many operators publish. What we could not find is a clause giving the winner a right to elect it. The terms we read give the promoter a right to substitute cash in defined circumstances. Those are different things, and if taking the money is your plan, it is a fair question to ask before entering rather than a surprise afterwards. We may simply have missed it; their terms run to roughly fifty thousand characters. From [7days Performance own terms](https://7daysperformance.co.uk/terms-and-conditions) and a live competition page, checked 2 November 2026. Their site is a single-page app, so these were read in a browser rather than fetched. We checked one competition page, not all of them, and did not read the terms end to end. Terms change. ## What we do instead Cash, and only cash, so there is no alternative to claim and no clause to find. Our smallest draw caps at 20,000 tickets, which puts 25 tickets at 1 in 800 for £2.25, and that is the worst case, on the same reading we just applied to theirs. Every winner is [published](https://granddraws.co.uk/winners), and the draw can be [recomputed by anyone](https://granddraws.co.uk/draw-check) from numbers published before and after it runs. If you want the McLaren, go and enter for the McLaren. Nothing here is a substitute for a car, and we are not going to pretend it is. If you were going to take the cash alternative, this is that without the intervening step. [Our free draw](https://granddraws.co.uk/free-draw) costs nothing at all. ## Common questions ### Does 7days Performance publish the number of tickets? Yes, on the competition itself. One we checked showed a maximum of 2,999,999 entries with a limit of 12,500 per person, and stated that the competition closes sooner if the maximum is received. Their terms say the same in general terms. Checked 2 November 2026. ### Does a maximum of nearly three million entries mean terrible odds? Not necessarily, and it would be unfair to say it does. A cap is the most a draw can ever hold, not what it sold. Their own page says the draw takes place regardless of sell-out, and the competition we looked at showed 11% sold. So the published cap is the worst case and the real figure is usually a good deal better, which is exactly how we ask you to read our own caps. ### Can you take cash instead of the car? Their listings print a cash alternative figure on the prize, and the examples we saw ran from £22,000 to £105,000. What we could not find in their terms is a clause giving a winner the right to elect it: the wording found gives the promoter a right to substitute cash in defined circumstances. So the figure is published, and how you claim it is worth asking before you enter rather than after you win. Checked 2 November 2026. ### Is there a free entry route? Yes. Their terms set out a free postal entry route: an unenclosed postcard by first or second class post to their PO Box, with your name, address, phone, email and the competition, and an account set up first. Incomplete or illegible entries are disqualified, and entries arriving after the closing date do not go into that draw. Checked 2 November 2026. ### Who can enter? Their terms are unusually broad: anyone aged 18 or over resident in a country where it is lawful for them to enter and for the promoter to award the prize. That is wider than ours, since Grand Draws paid competitions are Great Britain (England, Wales and Scotland) only.