^ I think that Lucinda had abandoned the idea to sell raffle tickets by that time Pushka, but am not sure.

In retrospect I think the whole raffle idea was a bad one. They had to sell 100 tickets at £30 each for it to be profitable and for the scheme to work. This would entail concentrating time and effort on selling sufficient small units of £30 rather than the larger value 'units' of car rental which is what they were meant to be selling in order to satisfy the task.

I agree that the raffle was a bad idea for the reasons given by Cadence. She would have to have sold 150 tickets to break even on it at £20 and once they sold one, they were forced to take the loss.

However, you do raise an interesting point and a defence of Lucinda. It may be that what we see on screen - which appears to be her mistakenly calling the Aston Martin a Zonda - is misleading and she is simply doing what you say: trying to sell the raffle tickets.

It doesn't excuse her obtuseness in the morning regarding the name of the car, but it explains what seemed to be total incompetence in the afternoon.

^ I’ve watched that section of last week’s programme again on iplayer. The narrator says “Abandoning raffle tickets, Lucinda starts hawking her car on Chelsea’s King’s Road, seemingly unaware it’s the Aston Martin.” We then see Lucinda making several approaches to different people asking them if they know what a Zonda is.

I don't think she was selling tickets.


I'm not convinced. It wouldn't be easy to sell tickets for a Zonda raffle when she didn't even have the Zonda there for people to look at. People who have never heard of a Zonda before can sit in one and know they want one; it virtually sells itself. Raffle tickets, not so much.

I'd have been worried about fraud, too. If you can't see the car, how do you know it really exists? She could just tell everyone they'd lost. And £30 or even £20 is still a lot of money especially as they'd probably have nothing to show for it.

She was right to abandon the idea. But I do think the fact that she'd spent time on Zonda raffle tickets may have contributed to her making a mistake on the name; she'd have had "Zonda" on the brain.

What brain?

Could the narrator have deliberately misled us? Probably not* but I can see that she could use "Do you know what a Zonda is?" as a prelude to trying to sell raffle tickets.

*I don't think I'm a natural Lucinda defender somehow.

Maybe not but well done for at least considering the possibility.

I'm certainly not a natural Alex or Micheal defender but I will defend them in a heartbeat if I think they are being treated unjustly.

I did consider the possibility that there was some confusion and that the footage of Lucinda repeatedly approaching people asking them if they'd heard of a Zonda was when she was trying to sell raffle tickets rather than after she'd abandoned the idea...but that would mean the narration was either deliberately misleading or incompetent. It might be that having focused on the Zonda for the sale of raffle tickets, Lucinda was stuck in that mindset when she transferred her efforts to trying to sell time on the Aston Martin. Am I right in remembering however that on tonight's YF programme it showed a clip of Lucinda in the evening once again referring to the Zonda as a Zona?

Yes, she did. To her credit, she dropped her head in shame in the studio whilst it played.