Just found out that Climate XChange in Massachusetts is raffling off a new Tesla: http://climate-xchange.org/tesla-raffle/ - $250 per raffle ticket - drawing on December 31st.
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This kind of raffle is actually pretty common. You might as well rant about those Awful "50/50" raffles all those "scam" churches and fire departments run. The organization is real, and since they pay all taxes associated with the vehicle, it's actually better than most raffles of this type. Chill.If you have to "purchase" to enter, that's a rather old scam like penny auctions. Basically, you offer up something you don't have and offer others to win it by purchasing "raffle" tickets. The trick is that you sell more tickets than the value of the thing offered, so once you hit that limit, you do draw a winner. You purchase the winning gift and give it to the winner.
Don't see where that quote came from, but in the legal details section of the raffle, they've eliminated the minimum ticket requirement. So, please, nobody else enter, I like the odds I have now.LeftieBiker wrote:This kind of raffle is actually pretty common. You might as well rant about those Awful "50/50" raffles all those "scam" churches and fire departments run. The organization is real, and since they pay all taxes associated with the vehicle, it's actually better than most raffles of this type. Chill.If you have to "purchase" to enter, that's a rather old scam like penny auctions. Basically, you offer up something you don't have and offer others to win it by purchasing "raffle" tickets. The trick is that you sell more tickets than the value of the thing offered, so once you hit that limit, you do draw a winner. You purchase the winning gift and give it to the winner.
They have to sell enough tickets to pay for the vehicle first, that's how those kind of raffles work. After they make the minimum amount, any extra tickets sold is extra profit to keep.DNAinaGoodWay wrote:Don't see where that quote came from, but in the legal details section of the raffle, they've eliminated the minimum ticket requirement. So, please, nobody else enter, I like the odds I have now.