Ken/Alabama
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Got my tickets the other day and the numbers are in the 4120 range. Wasn't there supposed to be only 4000 sold?
40 Ford Raffle Question
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V8COOPMAN
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VeryTangled
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Hi Everyone, The Foundation's website says the tickets are sold out. Quoting here...
"In less than two months, we have sold all 4000 tickets on the '40 Coupe. The drawing of the winning ticket will be held on St. Patrick's Day, March 17th and all visitors to the museum that day after 1pm will be admitted free of charge. The drawing of the winning ticket will take place at 2pm. It will be video taped and posted online. Thanks to everyone who purchased tickets, and especially to Tom and Pam Johnston of CA for donating this fabulous car!"
I have no inside knowledge here, but I'm pretty sure that any tickets that were given in advance to sell have been recalled to fill orders taken at the Foundation. (Even possibly to be destroyed to make sure only 4000 tickets are actually sold.) I think some people who tried to get tickets will get refunds because the tickets went so fast and their orders didn't get in quickly enough.
Good news for someone on St. Patty's Day! Hope it's a 'Barn'er!
"In less than two months, we have sold all 4000 tickets on the '40 Coupe. The drawing of the winning ticket will be held on St. Patrick's Day, March 17th and all visitors to the museum that day after 1pm will be admitted free of charge. The drawing of the winning ticket will take place at 2pm. It will be video taped and posted online. Thanks to everyone who purchased tickets, and especially to Tom and Pam Johnston of CA for donating this fabulous car!"
I have no inside knowledge here, but I'm pretty sure that any tickets that were given in advance to sell have been recalled to fill orders taken at the Foundation. (Even possibly to be destroyed to make sure only 4000 tickets are actually sold.) I think some people who tried to get tickets will get refunds because the tickets went so fast and their orders didn't get in quickly enough.
Good news for someone on St. Patty's Day! Hope it's a 'Barn'er!
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FrankWest
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Seems like a hard thing to keep track of if they print more than 4000 tickets?
They should have printed only 4000 tickets and those tickets that didn't sell should be returned to the head of the raffle to be resold.
Glad I only bought 2 tickets!
TJ
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Tickets are sold out lenmissy.
I should add that extra tickets were probably printed to compensate for any lost in the mail or damaged in some way. It's like having spare parts for your V-8. Sure as heck if you don't have a certain spare part you will always find you need one at the most inconvenient time.
EFV8 Museum
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Only 4,000 tickets were sold. We had 4,200 tickets printed to be safe, and we are glad we did now! A whole block of 150 tickets went to a person that has fallen off the planet! We gave them plenty of notice to get back to us to no avail. (3 voicemails and 5 emails, the last stating that if we were not contacted within 7 days the tickets would be replaced.) We also had 25 tickets mailed out that were lost in the mail. All 175 of these tickets were replaced with tickets ranging from 4001-4175.
Presidents day really gave us a a double dose of mail that sold out the 3,100 tickets we were selling out of the museum through the mail. We filled these orders with the date stamp on the letter from the post office earliest first.
We then contacted everyone to return all stubs and unsold tickets to the museum. We had $3,000 worth of checks and no tickets to fill them. The tickets returned were then sold by postmark to people who mailed in checks.
Presidents day really gave us a a double dose of mail that sold out the 3,100 tickets we were selling out of the museum through the mail. We filled these orders with the date stamp on the letter from the post office earliest first.
We then contacted everyone to return all stubs and unsold tickets to the museum. We had $3,000 worth of checks and no tickets to fill them. The tickets returned were then sold by postmark to people who mailed in checks.
Just wondering... did you get the proper license to sell these? My wife and I "hosted" a raffle many years ago for her non-profit business fund raising efforts. It was then i found out one can't simply "have a raffle".
EFV8 Museum
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Yes, the foundation holds a CG-16AR, Annual Raffle License, issued by the Indiana Charitable Gaming Commission. LN#138474 our website, phone # and EIN# are on every ticket or advertising we created for the raffle.
VeryTangled
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[EDIT: Oops, while I was thinking, the Foundation replied....]
Hi Everyone, Kube, again I have no inside info but, when I called, as soon as I heard tickets were available, I placed an order for a couple of books and a contribution to the general fund, as well as some tickets. While checking out, I was asked if the card I used was credit or debit. Credit was a no-no because of the Indiana Charity Gaming rules, I was told. So, from my experience I'd say yes, the Foundation went through the proper channels here. It seems they would easily qualify because of their status as a non-profit foundaton.
Hi Everyone, Kube, again I have no inside info but, when I called, as soon as I heard tickets were available, I placed an order for a couple of books and a contribution to the general fund, as well as some tickets. While checking out, I was asked if the card I used was credit or debit. Credit was a no-no because of the Indiana Charity Gaming rules, I was told. So, from my experience I'd say yes, the Foundation went through the proper channels here. It seems they would easily qualify because of their status as a non-profit foundaton.
Sounds like a lot of the same hoops we had to jump through. I suppose for good reason but man oh man, it wasn't as easy as some may think to put on a raffle.
EFV8 Museum
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A little FYI for everyone. The raffle lasted approximately 6 weeks. Our newletter The Foundation News and the Ford Barn coupled with our social media sites sold three quarters of the tickets in three weeks! There was a week lull and the V-8 Times sold the other quarter in no time flat. We had guys overnighting us checks to be sure they got some!
It has exceeded all of our expectations. We expected to be able to use the 40 as a promotional vehicle for the Spring and had to have all tickets sold before the end of July when our license renews without having to carry it over to our next license. No worrys now.
If we are presented with a car again for a raffle program we are equipped now with the knowledge of how to do it better.
It has exceeded all of our expectations. We expected to be able to use the 40 as a promotional vehicle for the Spring and had to have all tickets sold before the end of July when our license renews without having to carry it over to our next license. No worrys now.
If we are presented with a car again for a raffle program we are equipped now with the knowledge of how to do it better.
Josh and the rest of the folks at the V-8 Museum did an unbelievable job with this raffle. The Foundation absolutely stuck to the rules and conducted this raffle strickly by the books. When Josh asked me to order 4200 tickets, I questioned him. The "extras" were strickly to be used in case we wound up with unsold tickets that were not returned to us. He was wise in that decision, as he explained earlier in this forum. It would've been a shame to lose out on the $175 or so because of the "lost" tickets. And yes, it was a job keeping tabs on every single ticket, but Josh did just that! This was an extremely well-run and successful raffle that raised $40,000 for the Museum. Now, who's ready to donate another super-nice Ford V-8 for our next raffle?