What do you guys think? A Raffle?

[SaintDog]

Well it has crossed my mind a few times and I would like to run a raffle here @ vBulletinTemplates with a load of various prizes; not only to give back to the community, but to bring alive vBT a little more.

For those that do not know what a raffle is, a raffle is a type of drawing in which tickets are sold, once X amount of tickets are sold, winners are drawn from the sold tickets and the prizes are given out.

Now in order to do this, a decent number of tickets would need to be sold in order to compensate for the prizes, so far, I have the below listed as prizes (this is not a final list, I am passing the idea to you all to see if you would participate in such an event):

- HiveMail License
- vBulletin License
- Free Web Hosting
- Gift Certificates
- Ect.

The base price for tickets I believe will be $5-$6/per ticket, with no limit on the amount you can buy. I will tally the total for the prizes and divide that up among the price to see how many tickets would need to be sold in order to run this.

So what do you guys think, would this be worth a shot? If run, would you tell others and spread the word regarding the raffle? (NO SPAMING FORUMS, WEBSITES, OR E-MAILS ELSE YOU WOULD BE BANNED).

Let me hear your thoughts on this; this would be a great way to promote vBT as well as give away some really cool prizes! .

Let's here your thoughts.....Post away!

[Tony G]

It's a very good idea I must say, but me and anyone else not in America aren't privelaged since we need to pay more.

But what the heck, guess I can fork out some money to make this raffle happen. Can't I?

But, are you going to sell real tickets or just give us a code? If a code, how will you draw them etc?

And what about if not enough tickets are sold to compensate the prizes?

[SaintDog]

Raffle codes will be random per a PHP script made to limit them down. Once a ticket is purchased, we will mail the code to the user directly. Once the tickets are bought up, all users will be e-mailed and the give-a-way will be done here at vBT.

We will have both PayPal and 2CheckOut.com open for payments so as not to leave anyone whom wants to participate out.

[SsJ8Darkness]

I like this Idea.. I may fork out some money for this.. *looks in his wallet and sees it is empty* well I can get 5-6 bucks easy.. so I think this Idea is a good one

[Tony G]

Sounds good SD, I'll enter too. Think I got $10 somewhere. (Just as long it's converted to US somehow)

[filburt1]

I have ~$10 in PayPal but already donated $10 too...can that money go towards my tickets?

[Tony G]

Ahh PayPal. Better see if I still have an account there.

[SaintDog]

PayPal & 2CheckOut.com will be allowed on request, just need more people interested before we can this going, I planned on getting both a HiveMail & vBulletin license and give them both away during the raffle, first winner gets choice of either license, 2nd place gets the remaining license, then from there we will distribute lower prizes such as HiveMail Skins, vBulletin Skins, Web Hosting Accounts, ect!

As for payments, previous donations will not count towards this as this will be a seperate thing totally. The tickets will be priced at ~$6 USD.

If you know anyone, please let them know your interest. There will be probaly over $500 in prizes, if not more (i.e. $160 = vBulletin, $180 = Hivemail, $100 = HiveMail Skins, $100 = vBulletin Skins, Web Hosting, and more ).

We will need to move at least 100-150 tickets before this can happen. So selling will be done over the course of 1 month, after which the drawing will be held (if enough tickets are sold at that time).

Do you guys think you can help make this happen? It would be great promotion with great prizes to say the least!

[Rufus69]

I'm poor :'-( hmmm
*looks around* anyone spare 6 bucks?
I need a job >_<

[Tony G]

Depends how willing the community is SD, but 100-150 sounds possible.