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Re: Millenium Falcon 10179 Raffle
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lugnet.starwars
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Fri, 2 Mar 2007 12:52:19 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Bryan Wong wrote:
> I think tickets should be limited to one per person so that everybody has an
> equal chance of winning, and to avoid a case where the "richest person" wins
> (i.e. s/he bought the most tickets).
I'm not so worried about that -- if I buy in at $10, it (logically) doesn't
matter to me how the other $490 is paid out -- I still have a 2% chance of
winning. Plus, the issue is somewhat self-correcting. The "deep pockets" are
more likely to just go buy their own.
> With all that said, I do see one potential problem. I'm in Canada, and the set
> costs more than US$500. Assuming you're in the US, I don't think you could
> order the set and ship to me in Canada if I won. You might not even be able to
> order it from Canada's version of S@H. So it looks like this raffle would be
> limited to those in the US.
If you enter and win, you have to (also) pay the difference in cost between US
and Canada? Probably Todd's idea (have it shipped to him, and he ships to you)
would work better.
Steve
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| (...) Sounds like a good idea. I would pay up to $10 for a chance. I think tickets should be limited to one per person so that everybody has an equal chance of winning, and to avoid a case where the "richest person" wins (i.e. s/he bought the most (...) (17 years ago, 1-Mar-07, to lugnet.starwars)
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