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Dean, I think that's a great idea and I'd check back regularly to see what's up for grabs!
As far as the limiting the number of people to buy tix, that's iffy with me. How can you donate 25% to the CEG board if you limit it to the price of the product? Maybe limit it to the price of the product and 25% or something.
As far as allowing people to buy more than one ticket maybe try one of each and see how they work out or limit their share to a certain percentage of the total # of tix sold.

Dean - This is the best idea to come around CEG in a long time. I like your enthusiasm and dedication to this site! I'm in!

Also, there should be a way to make sure that the same person doesn't win the raffle twice in a row...

-- Brian

P.S. -- As an idea, start with the S-AFC!

this sounds like a great idea, id like to participate in it

I'd definently participate in some of the stuff if I was interested in the product of course.

Someone mentioned when BOFH was gonna raffle his car off to use a certain's state's lottery and the last two numbers are assigned to each individual or something like that... to make the drawing fair.

just get pieces of paper and number them like 1-?? and draw. simple as that. I have been in some of the neco raffles and they raffle a lot of differnt stuff. they have done mobil one oil. a wing. body kit I think. hoods. tons of stuff. I say start off with something that everybody would be able to use and would want to use so that we can get everybody aware of the raffles so that they will at least know we have them and to check and see if there intrestered in buying a ticket. do the mobil one oil. get like 6qts of it and raffle that off. tickets could be $1 each and you could sell prolly 100 plus tickets with something like that. you would spend 30 on the oil and make a good profit and ceg would make money to and everybody would know about these raffles. I would buy 10 tickets to the oil easy.

instead of raffling off actual product, you could raffle off gift certificates. When the person uses this gift certificate to purchase from you, you could then donate a portion of that sale to CEG. The good thing about a gift certificate is that the buyer may end up buying more than say the $500, paying the difference of course, but then also becoming a nice loyal customer.

If you check out NECO, as was suggested above, they've been doing this quite frequently lately to raise funds for Cougarfest.
Unlimited amount of raffle tickets can be bought by each person. The tickets are purchased through paypal, and those buying tickets are able to see a list of who has bought tickets so far. I'm not sure what method they use to pick the winner, but I think it's worth checking into.
They may even approach you as a seller to participate in their raffles - they're especially hungry for vendors who sell car audio products right now.

I think it's a great idea. NECO has had great success with this.