Meeting raffles
Meeting raffles
- Subject: Meeting raffles
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 17:10:07 EDT
At TMUG, what has worked best is to have two raffles at the end of each meeeting.
The first raffle is for something special that we have either paid for or has been donated; this item will be worth at least $200 (external hi-cap HDs, 17" LCD monitors, refurb iPods, refurb digital cameras, etc). Separate tickets are sold for $1 (6/$5), $2 (3/$5), etc, depending on the retail value of the item, and anyone can purchase them. Recent items have been 30GB iPods and 5MP HP cameras. When attendance is low in the summer we don't do this raffle.
The second raffle is the "general" raffle; each member gets a free ticket and anyone can buy extras at 2/$1, even non-members; members understand that the ticket sales help finance the raffle, so they often buy several extra. The items in this raffle are of lower value (packs of CDRs, mini lights for laptops, packs of CD cases, CD label kits, optical mice of all sorts, software from the sale bin, speaker sets, cable/DSL routers, keyboard cleaning kits, USB/FW cables, mousepad/wrist rest sets, USB thumb drives, USB hubs, USB memory card readers, recent books, etc.) The books are donated by a professional book reviewer, and most of the other items come from our treasury. Once in a while a vendor will bring items for the general raffle, such as when Microsoft demo'd Office 2004. The only rule we have is one "prize" per person.
This method of "operation" has worked well for at least the past 8 years, or so.
Ridge Prevost, President
Tucson Macintosh Users Group
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