Idle thought: a Rocky Lottery

[Rocky Raab]

Just kicking around an idea here.

Please tell me what you think of this.

Suppose a number of you send me nice shooting-related items. Everyone who send me something gets one chance (name on a slip). When I have a good assortment of neat stuff, I pull one of the names and he/she gets the whole lot.

I'd probably ask for a buck per item to help pay me to ship the lot out.

If you folks think it's a fun idea, I'll come up with more formal rules and such.

Thoughts?

[cdhunt]

Hey Rocky--The southern outdoorsman has a lottery--each responding member picks a 3 number set. The winner is the person with the correct number on the date selected by the administrater, that the state nightly number is drawn.

[Rocky Raab]

Yeah, but who supplies the prizes?

In my idea, everyone who enters kicks in a prize, and the winner takes all. We'd specify a dollar value, to keep things level (or we'd have one guy adding a 50-dollar knife and somebody else a ten-cent keychain).

But if ten guys each kick in a ten-dollar prize, the winner will get a hundred bucks worth of gear. See?

[cdhunt]

Rocky --You asked for ideas--it's your forum you run it the way you want. With my way you would only lottery when you had a prize donated and not a forced prize. There are plenty of opportunities for private and public to donate w/o taxing anyone. Also i would not be interested if a slip of paper in a hat is used, too much chance of some wrong doings. just my ho.

[LoneWolf]

Sounds like a good plan to me Rocky... just can't think of anything I'm ready to give up just yet;)

As for trust, well if I couldn't trust Rocky to run it right, not sure who I could trust. Have never seen him unfair to anyone here on the board, nor to not be the first person to lend a hand when needed.

[Rocky Raab]

I hear ya, cd. But I'd be doing the slip-drawing.

[pointblank]

Sounds good to me.
I actually have a ton of stuff that's still in the box from raffles and banquets. I could certainly part with some items and who knows maybe I'd be adding more to the garage.

pb

[kootenaykiller]

sounds like a good idea.how about,everyone who puts in say a 10 dollar prize.wins a different prize.kinda like a trade,but you never know what you might get. JUST AN IDEA TO THROW IN THE WIND!