Well folks, it's been a year already, and the FTBCF has been a great success. We've had hundreds of new members, shared countless bits of priceless (and admittedly, sometimes useless :hick:, but hey, that's what the internet is for) information, and even created several online friendships. Yes, I would call that a success by any stretch.
Unfortunately, with anniversaries come bills:mad:. Our domain and hosting service is due for another year's worth of funding:deal:. Last year this was made possible through the donations of many members, and it was greatly appreciated:bowdown:, but this time I'd like to give something in return for the shmoozing for dough, so I've decided to have a raffle. It goes like this:
$10 gets you one ticket:
$20 gets you two:
$25 gets you three:
Ticket sales have closed
The prize is your choice of a Thundercat TCSF-03 Deluxe sequential turn signal system kit with BONUS modified HD12 flasher for slower sequencing effect (ONLY available in this raffle, this flasher is not available for sale!), a pair of Thundercat TCMRLED white LED fog lights*, or a Thundercat TCWWF-4 four-way wigwag system. Already have a sequencer? Our completely redesigned TCSF-03 was released on October 1st, 2005, so you may want the newer model, or you may want one of the other prizes. The value of the prize ranges from $79-$100. The sequencer kit will work on 85-88 Cougars and 87-88 T-Birds.
But here's the clincher: For every $100 worth of tickets sold, one prize will become available. This means if $200 worth of tickets are sold, two prizes will be drawn. If $300 worth are sold, three prizes will be drawn. See the legal mumbo jumbo below for details. But HURRY! The deadline for buying tickets is 11:59PM EST, Monday, October 31st, 2005. The draw will take place on Tuesday morning after I wake up.
The legal Mumbo-Jumbo:
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This raffle is open to all members of the Fox T-Bird/Cougar message forums (www.foxtbirdcougarforums.com (http://"http://www.foxtbirdcougarforums.com")) from any country.
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In the event that you win a prize it shall be considered that you bought the item for your donation amount. This isn't a real honest to goodness lottery, after all.
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The draw will take place like this: On Tuesday, November 1st, 2005, I personally will print out the names of each ticket holder and then cut the names out to form a bunch of tickets. I will then put these tickets in a hat, drum, bottle, or other container and shake vigorously. I'll then draw out one name for each prize offered (if there are four prizes I'll draw four names, for instance). Once I have drawn the names I will email the winners to ask them which prize they choose, SO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A VALID EMAIL ADDRESS!!! Winners will also be posted in this thread, so if you see your name here and I didn't contact you, FIX YOUR EMAIL. Prizes unclaimed after one week will be drawn for again and given to a new winner. The entire drawing process will be monitored by my cat Stewie, who is completely neutral (having been neutred) to ensure that I am completely impartial.
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Prizes must be accepted as offered. No substitutions, no cash value. *Should the winner chose the TCMRLED fog lights they will be furnished in white and will not contain internal flashers.. They will function as fog lights only.
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Odds of winning for each ticket shall be no greater than 1 in 10 and no less than 1 in 19. The number of prizes drawn will be determined by the following:
- $1-$199 worth of tickets sold: 1 draw
- $200-$299 worth of tickets sold: 2 draws
- $300-$399 worth of tickets sold: 3 draws
- $400-$499 worth of tickets sold: 4 draws
- And so on. The number of tickets sold and draws currently eligible will be posted in this thread about this raffle.
- Each draw winner will have their choice of the prizes noted above
- All prizes will be delivered via Canada Post/USPS expedited parcel service, or if that is not available to your country, airmail.
That's it! Simple as that! Buy your tickets, and you could win great stuff!
Tickets sold so far: 61
Prizes offered so far: 6
Glad this came up when it did and not a month earlier. (as if it had any choice) :p Now I can actually partite in it, after next week's paycheck. (18th) Worst that happens is I put it off until the paycheck after that, on the 25th.
Isn't BidPay available up there? PayPal is evil. :p
i thought paypal spacifically couldnd be used for raffles....or at least it was against their pollicy...that wont be a problem?
otherwise im in, its the least i could do...
I dunno if PayPal can be used for raffles or not, but this is more of a suckhole for donations with an incentive. PayPal provided the code for those buttons to work, so it can't be too much against it.
I do have a BidPay account, so I can do it that way as well. I don't know how to put BidPay buttons in, though, so you'll have to PM me to make arrangements
Yes I'm in!
Me too.
If my paypal account uses a different address than my user name on the board, is that ok?
Yep, just so long as your real name is there, or if you put a note with the payment saying who it's from
Ticket bought! :)
3 tickets bought :)
So if I read this right, I buy 12 tickets and get a prize? For every $100 there's a prize involved...
Nope. you read it wrong.. for every $100 worth of tickets sold overall (not just from one person), one prize becomes available, meaning he draws a second time for a second prize giving you another chance to win a prize.
But since the prize costs $100 anyway if you're gonna pay $100 for the 12 tickets, you might as well just buy the product from him instead of hoping to win it in a draw and give better odds to the others who didn't get 12 tickets ;)
What he said
Im in. YAY! :locked: :flip:
i bought me a ticket but i dont know if i can trust a cat to be neutral lol
You can trust Stewie. He hates everyone equally :D
I may have to postpone this a few days. Hanging onto my bank account money because of the approaching hurricane, and I haven't received my new credit card yet.
You and your hurricanes, any excuse to not spend money :flip:
Joking apart, I've been watching this hurricane - looks to be a bad one. The most powerful hurricane ever on record! It had a central pressure of 891 MB, lower than the previous record Gilbert (898mb). And the others from the top four of all time are Katrina and Rita - been a bad year, and unfortunately, Bird351, it looks like it's coming straight for you, though there's considerable uncertainty in the long range track of the storm. A few models even have the storm stopping over the Yucatan and turning around and heading back south, and one even has the storm hitting Nova Scotia as a category two some time next week. I think there's another model that has it hitting New York City as a Cat 2.
One thing for sure: Wherever it hits, it'll suck ass...
At the risk of derailing the donation thread:
You need to subtract 100 mb from those numbers.. 981 would actually be a much weaker hurricane. When it gets into the high 800s is when it's scary. (before the 2005 season started, Charley was tied for 17th most intense storm, at 941 mb.. and that had 150 mph winds)
As for Wilma: It's unlikely it will directly hit where I live, Charlotte County. I see it slowed down 1 mph, which I think means it's even less likely to hit here. (if it sped up and hit that front they're talking about sooner, I think it would go further north on its eastward turn) However, I'll include an image from Mapquest showing my Zip code, (represented by the big red star on the map) and the path my current gut feeling tells me Wilma will take. (represented crudely by the straight red line cutting through the bottom of the state) We'll probably be getting hurricane-force winds, but only minor ones. Then again, as Katrina showed on the first landfall, even a minor hurricane (Katrina was a cat. 1 when it hit Miami) can kill. In fact, I think they can be quite brutal at times because (among other reasons) people assume that only a major hurricane can kill them, and get sloppy when a lesser one comes along.
Anyway, to tie this back to the topic at hand: I see my credit union has activated the option to use my new credit card.. which I may be leaning on a little bit in the next week or two. (more work clothes and shiznit like that) That means that I should be able to spare $25 out of the next paycheck (if all goes well, my first full-time paycheck from this job) to jump in on this. If for some reason we should lose power and communications for an extended period of time again, (which is VERY likely.. a lowly tropical storm a few years back had our house w/o power for 3 days.. and Charley had us down for a week, not counting generator power) and I'm unable to get back here in time to get in on the donation/raffle-like thing, maybe I'll just see about an outright donation at that time. I can't say I haven't received at least $25 worth of help from this place in the past year. Or maybe I'll dig up whatever it was that I was ready to pay you to fabricate for me awhile back, and pay ya to fabricate it, at a significant enough profit to be equivalent to a board donation. (or think up something else *shrug*) Whatever works.
Florida Power and Light snagged 50 rooms today from the motel I work for.. and the country music shiznit-fest we were supposed to host the people for has folded due to the storm.. so I know it's pretty serious here right now.. even if the gas lines weren't a clue.. but I doubt it'll be personally life-threatening, unless I'm dumb enough to get caught up on third floor at work when a 75+ mph gust hits.
OK, back to the donation stuff. If anyone wants to discuss the weather any further, feel free to make a separate thread. I kinda feel bad for derailing this thread as much as I have so far.. but hey, it is actually sort of on topic. :p (my reason for not jumping in yet)
Here goes nothin! Too bad the only thing i've ever won through the lottery system was a gerbil in 4th grade.
I'll bet you all another 10 bucks the person who wins is one of those lucky s who won a Cougar hat (or in some cases hats) at CJ. You lucky SOBs!
There ya go:
I can't say I've never won anything. Won about $40 off of a scratch-off bingo ticket, which was unusual given that I play that stuff maybe twice a year at most. Also won a South Park T-shirt from their South Park Palace trivia.. still have it, too. Won a game of Risk back in the gifted class I was in around fourth or fifth (I forget, it's the years of heavy drinking to block it out) grade. Think I still have that, too. Considering how little I involve myself in contest-type events, (I'm generally not big on gambling) I'd say I've done pretty good. :p
I'm in... Three tickets please..
Any chance of an update on this?
The second post in this thread:
http://www.foxtbirdcougarforums.com/showpost.php?p=48986&postcount=2 (http://"http://www.foxtbirdcougarforums.com/showpost.php?p=48986&postcount=2")
OK, people, that's just f'n pathetic. 22 tickets?! Three of those are mine, and I've only been working an $8 an hour job part time for the last month, after several years of unemployment. Either Carmen isn't counting right for some strange unfathomable reason, or you people are slacking BIGTIME. With the exception of a few really knowledgeable people like Tom (who appears to have stepped up already) who already know much of this stuff, most of you people can't say you haven't got $10-25 worth of information out of this place. This forum claims to have 288 active members.. (out of 872 total) we're not even to one ticket in ten active users. Come on, people!
I thought it was pretty disgusting when, out of all the people I work with, I was the only one who thought to donate the available lost-and-found stuff to charity, (we're talking like 3 boxes of clothing, etc.) and I'm probably the most selfish person I know. This ranks up there with that.. and I'm kinda disappointed in the people here who haven't ponied up. Even if you don't need the prizes.. (and as an example, I'm one who doesn't need anything that's there to offer.. my Mark can't use sequentials.. I already put fog lights on it.. and I have no use for wigwag) this place is too useful not to fund to keep going.
Just bought my ticket. Wish I could spare more but I know I'm not alone when I say things are tough all over. Even if I don't win (come on sequentials ::drools::)) I've definately gotten more than 10 bucks worth of info from this board already.
In in as well....paypal is on it's way.
Done a bit of overtime today to get a couple tickets, I dont stop by much anymore and say even less but I figure its the least I could do if for nothing else but the entertainment value of this place
$25?
I got ripped off! Carmen, you scamming . My bill says $30.01!
:ies: :hick:
Heh.. even with exchange rates, (if he's charging only US dollars) you got screwed just a wee bit. (by PayPal)
25 USD = 29.2850 CAD
21.3420 USD = 25 CAD
(that's as of 10:40 PM tonight)
Sweet, here's to hoping. Just got one ticket for now.
Bought a ticket, just lost $200 on a contract so I don't have more to spare.
The name on paypal is Stefan.
i just got 3 i hope i win somthing
Oh yeah, the paypal account is my wife's. Angela (I can't remember if she's still using her Maiden name in that one or not).
i dood it. :D
sweet...its good to see guys bucking up....
got me a ticket too
paypal sent from PROSTREETCOBRAII@AOL.COM
:) :) :) :) :) :)
I'm in. It's worth sacrificing a case a beer for a good cause.
Picked up a ticket today... Hopefully I can win!
Got one too.
Looks like we're just shy of 60.. did jcassity find someone to pay on his behalf?