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Bonus Ball Raffles
dancetothedrummersbeat:
I've nothing against it as such. The seller sets the ticket price, and if there isn't enough interest, they have the right to either refund or wait until every ticket is sold. You buy your ticket and take your chance, but obviously the odds are massively stacked against you. If you do win, I think it's upto you what you do with it regarding splitting etc. Why should you feel guilty? If your asking price for the individual parts is too high, they won't sell. Everyone has paid the same amount per ticket, and the draw is fair, so it's not like there has been behind the scenes dealings/sob stories trying to knock the asking price down for a complete (didn't this happen at MK the year before last?) - Someone giving a cock & bull story about his son wanting a bike, and it then appeared on ebay the same week. I don't know the precise details, but it sounded dodgy. Bad form within a community such as ours "nono"
Not sure I would go down the raffle route, but it can be a good way to shift a complete as Dan plus a few others like Paul and Gaz H have done. They also made a complete or partial contribution to a local charity/good cause. Hats off to them :4_17_5:, although it's upto the individual why they want to sell/what they do with the proceeds
Skate71:
I have joined a few Old School BMX Facebook pages today - can't quite believe what I am witnessing.
The raffling of Old School BMX's has turned into an epidemic.
How can people be asking for a combined monitory value via 59 tickets - which actually surpasses the value of the bike, even if split!!!???
An example witnessed today - a £200 bike, 59 tickets sold for £10 = £590.00 - Less £100.00 charity donation = a bike valuation of £490.00. You could not split this particular bike twice and expect to bring in £490.00 for it.
Thinly disguising the blatant profiteering by giving a token gesture % to charity does not cut it for me.
Its a disgrace :(
griff:
--- Quote from: Skate71 on April 02, 2016, 07:53 PM ---I have joined a few Old School BMX Facebook pages today - can't quite believe what I am witnessing.
The raffling of Old School BMX's has turned into an epidemic.
How can people be asking for a combined monitory value via 59 tickets - which actually surpasses the value of the bike, even if split!!!???
An example witnessed today - a £200 bike, 59 tickets sold for £10 = £590.00 - Less £100.00 charity donation = a bike valuation of £490.00. You could not split this particular bike twice and expect to bring in £490.00 for it.
Thinly disguising the blatant profiteering by giving a token gesture % to charity does not cut it for me.
Its a disgrace :(
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I'm on very few FB groups so not seen this myself
Doesn't sound like I'm missing much here Thumbs down
pickle:
Must feel very strong about it to make it your first post :daumenhoch:
dancetothedrummersbeat:
:welcome to rad by the way :)
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