[Ohio-talk] drawings in the nfb

[Zaheer Sheikh]

I participate in online raffle drawings very often. On several
occasions, when the tickets sale amount is not equal or above the
amount of the raffle prize, the drawing still takes place, and the
winner is rewarded with the 50% of the tickets sale amount.

Sincerely,
Zaheer Sheikh

On 1/11/11, Carol Akers <purplecakers at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Yes.  I have seen too many raffles go bad in other organizations, etc and do
> not
> want to see NFB make the same mistakes.
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> Carol Akers
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> From: "Payne, Richard L (GE Capital)" <richard.payne at ge.com>
> To: NFB of Ohio Announcement and Discussion List <ohio-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tue, January 11, 2011 3:29:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [Ohio-talk] drawings in the nfb
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> Right hope you sent this to ohio talks
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ohio-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:ohio-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Carol Akers
> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 3:24 PM
> To: NFB of Ohio Announcement and Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [Ohio-talk] drawings in the nfb
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> We need to hold ourselves to a higher standard than other groups so we are
> not
> lumped in with those who commit "fraud" or "scam" raffles by taking peoples
> money and not producing a result as you said.
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>  Technically if someone wanted to know WHO won the prize or prizes in any
> given
> raffle, they should be able to find out  thus ensuring it was a legitimate
> raffle and if not, the group or organization could be held accountable if
> someone reported it as fraud.
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> We need to be very cautious whenever we do raffles for prizes.   The best
> way
> to raffle an item is to already have that item on hand, donated or
> somehow available (esp when it is an item of value) ---you can never count
> on
> buying the item with funds generated by the sale of tickets.    If a raffle
> does
> not take place--the monies should be returned to those who purchased tix esp
> if
> they were $5 or more tix prices.  As an organization we need to present
> ourselves in an honest manner because our reputation precedes us at any
> given
> time.
> Carol Akers
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> From: eric duffy <eduffy at deltav.org>
> To: NFB of Ohio Announcement and Discussion List <ohio-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Mon, January 10, 2011 1:11:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [Ohio-talk] drawings in the nfb
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> Richard,
> I appreciase your pointing this out.
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> It seems to me that if people pay money for something, they expect it to be
> delivered when we say it's going to be delivered.
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> When we say a drawing is going to be held at a given time and it is not
> done,
> what people remember is that they paid money for a drawing that wasn't
> conducted.
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> Eric
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