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Aislinn Jewell
Virtually You Hope Center
Join date: 18 Feb 2007
Posts: 119
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07-05-2007 08:51
Hello! When I have need of opinions, my first thought is of you all who make this forum so special......and addicting!
Anyway, I run a non profit help/hope/support center in sl. We were just blessed with some land at half price and I am able to make payments on it. We were also blessed with a 1024 plot of land to sell, in order to help pay our debt.
We are thinking about raffling this land off. Has this been done before? I don't know where to start, if there is a raffle system in place, if so can you recommend one? Is this even legal? How much would you raffle tickets off?
Any and all help will be very appreciated!
Thank you!
Aislinn
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Virtually You!
Center for Health, Healing & HOPE!
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Nina Stepford
was lied to by LL
Join date: 26 Mar 2007
Posts: 3,373
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07-05-2007 09:27
i have seen a land raffle before.
was set so you buy a L$100 object then the runner of the raffle would select one person on a given date to win.
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Elex Dusk
Bunneh
Join date: 19 Oct 2004
Posts: 800
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07-05-2007 13:15
Long ago there was a gathering place that had weekly land raffles. I attended repeatedly and over time noticed a pattern emerge: The only people who won the land were part of the staff at the gathering place. After they won they'd put the land back into the raffle. The lesson learned: The rigged raffle was meant to increase traffic by tricking people into thinking they might have an honest chance of winning land if they showed up.
My only advice is that staff not be allowed to take part in the raffle.
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Nina Stepford
was lied to by LL
Join date: 26 Mar 2007
Posts: 3,373
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07-05-2007 13:56
thats pure evil!
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Har Fairweather
Registered User
Join date: 24 Jan 2007
Posts: 2,320
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07-05-2007 14:04
In this day of unverified SL accounts, that is also pure discrediting of the idea. Sad, but true. : (
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Deira Llanfair
Deira to rhyme with Myra
Join date: 16 Oct 2006
Posts: 2,315
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07-05-2007 16:32
Just after LL removed the "first land" scheme, for sale to new residents, I noticed an increase in land raffles/lotteries. As Elex has posted - they were not all completely honest lotteries, but if you want to organise a well run one for your charity, I suggest you post up the rules just as is done in RL, and if possible, get an independant adjudicator to check fair play. Good luck. I'd buy a ticket 
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cHex Losangeles
Registered User
Join date: 24 Nov 2006
Posts: 370
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07-05-2007 18:22
Is it possible to program a script so an object could randomly choose a winner, allow others to inspect the script, but not allow others to edit it?
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