[meteorite-list] Re: Charity Meteorite Raffle for New Orleans

From: Michael Farmer <meteoritehunter_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat Sep 3 00:03:59 2005
Message-ID: <006c01c5b03c$859f1990$0200a8c0_at_S0031628003>

Geoff, is the raffle going to be drawn live in Denver?
mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Notkin" <geoking_at_notkin.net>
To: "stan ." <laser_maniac_at_hotmail.com>; "Meteorite List"
<meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 8:55 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Re: Charity Meteorite Raffle for New Orleans


> Stan posted:
>
>> out of curiosity, might it be better to do an auction isntead, or
>> perhapse both - if several dealers are going to kick in multiple items
>> (and i owuld be willing to offer material as well) then what is there to
>> guarantee that the monies realized from the raffle tickets exceed the
>> reasonable value of the prizes?
>
>
> Dear Stan and List:
>
> I appreciate your suggestion, Stan, and also your kind offer to donate
> material. We have already received a few very fine donations, with more to
> come tomorrow. I think you will all be quite surprised when you see the
> list of items. Yes, you'll want to buy LOTS of raffle tickets : )
>
> One of the benefits of doing it this way is that we can make the raffle
> happen very quickly. However, you could be right about doing both. If
> someone who is Ebay savvy would like to volunteer to help me, I would be
> happy to put some/a few of the items on Ebay -- maybe for a quick
> three-day auction? -- provided that meets with the approval of the people
> who donated them. I'm going to have my hands full with organizing the
> raffle, so I'll need help if we're going to go that way. We can link to
> the Ebay auctions from my raffle web page, so everyone can see all the
> items. If anyone wants to volunteer to assist with that, please let me
> know.
>
> Thanks to the generosity of several List members, we will almost certainly
> have several lots, i.e. First Prize, Second Prize, and some runners-up as
> well, so we could probably spare some items for Ebay.
>
> I will get the list of our raffle items and as many photos as possible up
> tomorrow.
>
> Keep those donations and ticket purchases coming in.
>
>
> Thanks for your support.
>
> Geoff N.
>
>
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Received on Sat 03 Sep 2005 12:03:59 AM PDT