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Re: Millenium Falcon 10179 Raffle
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lugnet.starwars
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Thu, 1 Mar 2007 19:58:50 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Todd Thuma wrote:
> To All,
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> Hey, I just saw a great idea on Eurobricks
> http://eurobricks.hosting.ipsyn.com/euroforum/index.php?act=home. They are
> holding a raffle for the $500.00 Millenium Falcon 10179 set.
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> So I am interested whether or not the community on LUGNET might be willing to do
> this. Here's my thinking: There are few people out there that can afford the
> $500.00 set and there are many people out there that cannot. So, there might be
> some that would be willing to buy a raffle and have a chance at winning one. The
> question becomes how much you would be willing to spend for a single ticket?
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> Would you pay $10 for a chance? How about $5 or $1?
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 tickets).
Steve has a good point - do the raffle before March 31st so that shipping is
taken care of. One less thing to worry about. The organizer just orders the
set and ships to the winner's address.
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.
Cheers,
-Bryan
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Millenium Falcon 10179 Raffle
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| (...) I like that idea! Organize the event and get the raffle done prior to the deadline for free shipping. I could then have it shipped to the person and I'll pay for it with the money collected. That would be easy. (...) Not so fast Brian. I could (...) (18 years ago, 1-Mar-07, to lugnet.starwars)
| | | Re: Millenium Falcon 10179 Raffle
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| (...) 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 (...) (18 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.starwars)
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| | Millenium Falcon 10179 Raffle
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| To All, Hey, I just saw a great idea on Eurobricks (URL) They are holding a raffle for the $500.00 Millenium Falcon 10179 set. So I am interested whether or not the community on LUGNET might be willing to do this. Here's my thinking: There are few (...) (18 years ago, 1-Mar-07, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.announce)
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