Question Regarding Holiday Beer Basket Raffle

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  1. Goblinmunkey7

    Goblinmunkey7 Pooh-Bah (1,554) Dec 24, 2007 Massachusetts
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    I'm planning on raffling off a basket full of beer during the holiday season and donating all the money to charity. My local bottle shop has been kind enough to let me set the basket and raffle up in their store and help me keep track of everything, which is totally awesome.

    The basket currently contains:

    1x Clown Shoes Vampire Slayer
    1x Deschutes The Abyss 2011
    1x Firestone Walker Parabola 2011
    1x New Glarus Wisconsin Belgian Red
    1x New Glarus Raspberry Tart
    1x New Glarus Cherry Stout
    1x Surly Smoke 2011
    1x Sierra Nevada/Dogfish Head Life and Limb (Batch 2)
    1x Stone Imperial Russian Stout 2008
    1x Brooklyn Black Ops 2010
    1x Bells Expedition Stout 2010
    1x Bells Cherry Stout
    1x Founders Backwoods Bastard
    1x Cigar City Marshal Zhukov

    Now to the questions:

    1. I originally planned on running the raffle at a 5 ticket max/household @ $5/ticket or 5 for $20. Would this price be prohibitive if you encountered said basket and raffle?

    2. I then thought about doing $2/ticket with the 5 ticket max, but no price break for 5 tickets. While this would obviously draw more people, do you think the offset in cost would be made up by the number of people entering?

    3. Where would you set the ticket price/max per person?

    In case anyone was curious, the charity I'm going to donate to is Child's Play. I've always wanted to donate and I finally found a way to do it and feel really good about doing it.

    Any thoughts/questions/criticisms are welcome. One other note, this will obviously end up being a local thing and I'll keep the announcements in the regional forum when the raffle goes live on 12/1.

    Thanks for your input.
     
    #1 Goblinmunkey7, Nov 18, 2012
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  2. JulianB

    JulianB Initiate (0) Feb 1, 2012 South Carolina

    Personally I'd probably pay the $20 for the 5 tickets. Considering it's going to a charity and that's a pretty nice basket of beers, I don't see that as being prohibitive at all. Certainly the $5 for an individual ticket is something I'd definitely pony up.
     
    #2 JulianB, Nov 18, 2012
  3. Steimie

    Steimie Maven (1,428) Jan 7, 2012 Michigan

    So if I want 5 tickets, it'll either cost me $10 or $20? If I was interested in those bottles (and who wouldn't be?), the extra $10 wouldn't be that big of a deal, especially since the money is going to charity.
     
    #3 Steimie, Nov 18, 2012
  4. johnyb

    johnyb Pooh-Bah (2,336) Aug 11, 2012 Florida
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    Just my two cents, why set a max for tickets ? If all the money is going to charity, if somebody wants to pony up the $$$$ isn't that just that much more for the charity ???
     
    #4 johnyb, Nov 18, 2012
  5. Goblinmunkey7

    Goblinmunkey7 Pooh-Bah (1,554) Dec 24, 2007 Massachusetts
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    Good point. The logic was to prevent someone from dominating the chances, but no limit seems to make more sense. Thanks.
     
    #5 Goblinmunkey7, Nov 18, 2012
  6. mjohnson17

    mjohnson17 Initiate (0) Apr 29, 2012 Illinois

    First to answer your question. $5/ticket is perfectly acceptable, especially for charity. Also I agree that ther should be no limit. I get where your head is at by trying to make it fair but I think you'll raise more money with unlimited tickets.

    Last key, this is a cool idea and a very nice set of beers. Best of luck, I hope you raise an ass-ton of money!
     
    #6 mjohnson17, Nov 18, 2012
  7. rowingbrewer

    rowingbrewer Maven (1,420) May 28, 2010 Massachusetts
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    definitely stay at $5 per ticket and unlimited, that is a nice basket of 14 beers, only 5 of which were ever available in this area at very specific times. Is this Craft beer cellar?
     
    #7 rowingbrewer, Nov 21, 2012
  8. cbeer88

    cbeer88 Initiate (0) Sep 5, 2007 Massachusetts

    One reason to set limits is to prevent somebody from buying the pot. If word got out that somebody dropped $1000 or whatever on the basket, then more than $1000 in collective purchases from others could shy away from entering.

    I agree it probably doesn't matter much in this case though, but it is sometimes done in higher value auctions for that reason...
     
    #8 cbeer88, Nov 21, 2012
  9. Goblinmunkey7

    Goblinmunkey7 Pooh-Bah (1,554) Dec 24, 2007 Massachusetts
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    It is. The auction will go live on 12/01. I figured the age on the 5 would offset the fact that they were local.
     
    #9 Goblinmunkey7, Nov 22, 2012
  10. ediaz

    ediaz Initiate (0) Nov 23, 2011 Florida

    I'd pay $5 for a ticket easily. unfortunately, you're too far away!
     
    #10 ediaz, Nov 22, 2012
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