[Penguicon-Concom] Re: [penguicon-general] I know it's early, but I'm already thinking about this...

[Molly de Blanc]

So I guess the question now is if we are doing an auction? There has been a
lot of talk about it, certainly, and I have always been behind it.

FY,
Molly

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From: concom-bounces at penguicon.org [mailto:concom-bounces at penguicon.org] On
Behalf Of Jer
Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2007 5:31 AM
To: Penguicon Concom Discussion List
Subject: [Penguicon-Concom] Re: [penguicon-general] I know it's early,but
I'm already thinking about this...

If we're going to be doing an auction, I, for one, would be loathe to
ask them to donate to a raffle too. At some point, soliciting free
donations becomes presumptuous.

On 9/22/07, Molly de Blanc <majorarcanna at gmail.com> wrote:
> Are we planning on holding a raffle and an auction? If so, do we want to
ask
> GoHs to donate to both of them>
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> And, if you want, Shay, I'll contact them all for you.
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> FY,
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> Molly
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> From: concom-bounces at penguicon.org [mailto:concom-bounces at penguicon.org]
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> Behalf Of Dan DeSloover
> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 10:29 PM
> To: Penguicon Concom Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [Penguicon-Concom] I know it's early, but I'm already
> thinkingabout this...
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> Shay wrote:
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> So... I'm planning on running a raffle again for the March of Dimes at
next
> Penguicon (everyone was awesome and we raised over $600 for the charity)
and
> I'm looking for ideas.
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> So far, I'm planning to see if any of the GoHs would like to donate an
item
> to the raffle, and anyone from the dealers room.  I'm thinking about
selling
> tickets Friday and Saturday and having the raffle at like 8pm Saturday
> night.  If winners do not claim prizes by some time (trying to decide if I
> should make it like midnight Saturday or sometime Sunday morning) then
I'll
> pull more tickets for the unclaimed items but winners will have to be
> present at the 2nd pull.  Does this make sense?
>
> I have some random thoughts about the raffle going on in my head, but does
> anyone have any suggestions... ideas for items or random other neat ideas
to
> get people TO the raffle?  Things were disorganized last year because I
> threw things together at the last minute, and I want to make things 8
> million times better at the next con.  :)
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> ~Shay
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> Hate to be a killjoy, but don't you have to have a special license to hold
a
> raffle? (state law) I think my church has to when they have their
festival.
> Granted we did it last year without, but there is no need to expose
> Penguicon to any liabilities. Especially considering there is plenty of
time
> from now till Penguicon. Perhaps March of Dimes could help you out?
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> More information here:
> http://www.michigan.gov/documents/BSL-CG-1824_26045_7.pdf
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> and here:
> http://www.michigan.gov/documents/BSL-CG-1655_1370_7.pdf
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