One Huge Raffle Help!!
 

Fellows, For those of you who have been around a little while, you know periodically we have a raffle and someone gets to win some really neat stuff for literally pennies on the dollar.

This Raffle is to benifit John Dunkle and Jen..His lovely Wife. The owners of this Forum we all enjoy so much. Not many of you have commented on this announcement in the Site Announcements section but please, take a few seconds to read what these selfless, generous and all around lovely people are up to.

http://forum.lugerforum.com/showthre...881#post131881

This has not gotten the exposure it deserves and I and Ed Tinker want to change that with your help!

Haiti is one, if not THE poorest nation on Earth. I am sort or Apolitical but I know a good cause when I see one.

So where do you come in? You my Friend are going to be asked to do a couple of things for the cause. Because we are all Brother collectors I know I can depend on some help here.

1. I need contributions of stuff to raffel. It can be large or small. A loading tool, an extra mag, a spare badge or medal, book, something people might want...anything you can think of that might be used so we can have multiple winners. This means more interest.

I will be donating what might be of interest to many..A 6" Imperial Navy Holster, carry strap and double mag pouch that I made in my shop. It's a pretty sweet repro if I do say so myself. You will have to find a Navy stock, cleaning rod and tool to complete it as I do not have these. Nice start though!
Any extra items recieved from you will be added to the booty pile .

2. Tickets will be $25.00 or 5 for a hundred. Remember, not only is this for a GREAT cause but you have a pretty good chance of winning something! C'amon, dig thru the couch cushions and scrape together 25 smackers..it will make you feel pretty good I guarentee it.

3. THE MOST IMPORTANT!!! Write a short note or copy paste this one and get EVERYONE you can think of involved!!! It's only going to be for ten days or at the most two weeks. We need to strike hard and fast!

Ed will hopefully give a few more details tomorrow about where to send money and whatever else he can think of.

If anyone has time or stuff to donate please contact Ed or myself immediately. We can use anything ya got!

Read what John & Jen are up to and that alone should be enough to spur you to action!

Thanks, Jerry Burney

Can I just go ahead and send $25 now, and see what ever becomes of raffle stuff....as before in the great fire raffle, I will come up with some donation....

Howard, You are the first response of what we hope is many more. Thank you! Please send any money or items to donate to Ed. If you need his particulars I am sure he will make them available tomorrow! Somebody's got to be the Chief and he's it! Thanks, Jerry

Put me down for cash and junque...ah, ahem, collectable artifacts that would be a credit to anyone's collection.

Tom A

Jerry & Ed,

Thanks for taking the lead on this... unfortunately, I have very limited time for the foreseeable future, but I will make time to participate and contribute... John and Jen Dunkle are amazing people... I encourage you all to read John D's posting.

Cash sent... Will look for something to contribute.

Ron

I think it'd be better to random pick the winner, but the prizes would already be numbered, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc, and that way, I don't have to think too much. I have a friend who can come over and keep me legal and straight and maybe get them to do the packaging stuff. :)

A great initiative :-)

Cash sendt, will no see what I can find to contribute with.

But there is one little pickle, it will most likely not arrive within 9 days from today.
Ed; because of this, perhaps it's best for me to send directly to the winner? Please advice what to do..

Sent cash from Oz today. Hopefully it will get there in time. Not really sure what I have to donate, and if it would get there in time. What about a kangaroo ball bag change purse/possibles bag. Like Morgan, I could send straight to winner of they could wait a couple days for it to arrive there. I'll get one off tomarrow. Unless you think everyone all ready has got one.

Cheers........Chip

sending directly to a winner is acceptable, just send me a description of the item via PM and I'll add it to the listing.

Ed

Great, will send a description once I have found something (at work now..) :)

Ed........ CIITM

check is in the mail... Dave, you kill me, it took me 10 minutes to figure that out...

11 tickets sold, so far (paypal, don't know how may enroute via CIITM)

each ticket $25, 5 tickets for $100

*** remember what this "raffle" is for, a new Orphanage ***

(see in paran's who donated by)

prizes so far; AND WE'LL COMBINE A FEW of these puppies ;)
prizes

1. 6" Imperial Navy Holster, carry strap and double mag pouch (Jerry Burney, handmade repro rig)
2. DDR magazine, very nice marked 2/1001 (Bill L)
3. Original double mag pouch
4. new Repro. WW11 Black Luger Holster
5. a signed copy of Luger Variations (David Z)
6. Personalized copy of Simson Lugers (eduardo T)
7. Small box of stuff (Russ W)
8. FR&K.VOEGELS KÃ??LN-DEUTZ 1937 holster - repair needed on belt loops, still tight besides that. Owner will send it directly to the winner (Steinar A) and two Lahti magazines
9. Certificate for Luger parts strawing by Howard Collins
10. Certificate for one free Hugh Clark grip restoration, Luger or other manuf.
11. A nice multi marked police holster and police mag (Bill F)
12. A P38 holster & PP magazine (Bill F)
13. A repro mag pouch & a repro artillery holster (Bill F)
14. Kangaroo possibles bag (Chris)
15. two oversized toggle pins, 0.05 and 0.1mm. (Mike B)
16. Repro. WW11 Black Luger Holster
17. new Repro. WW11 Blrown Luger Holster
18. RCBS loading dies for .30 Luger (Ed R)
19. a boxed merit cross and a Nazi marked box of 10 8mm rifle rounds (1936)
20. Sauer 38h, s/n #509172. Eagle/N proof. Nice gun. {winner must pay next day air costs and send Jack H an FFL}

items added to the kitty

Here are some of the items that Bill Foehl donated;
http://forum.lugerforum.com/lfupload/img_2352.jpg
A nice multi marked police holster (Don, I will send you the info), a P38 holster, a repro mag pouch, a repro artillery holster (I sold one like it on ebay for $145 2 years ago), a PP mag, and inside of the police holster, a police magazine!!

PS: If other folks want "donated" by next to the item, I can do so, unless you'd rather I not (and we understand that)

Ed,
Paypal sent.
Mike C.

Hi, $50 sent by paypal. Doug Bryer

Hi Ed,

Just curious how you are doing the raffle. Is it one prize per person? That seems like the fair way to do it, to give more people a chance. I wasn't clear on that, or else I missed it somewhere. Thanks!

Regards,
Ron

Ron, I have been waffeling :D Some "prizes" are worth less, I tried to group each line item as a prize? Shipping could eat up a lot of donated money (and paypal $1.03 per $25 transaction, $19.72 already), and 14 items shipped priority with confirmation is about $6.00 a shot, 14x6 = $84 by itself.

So, I have been waffeling, if we get a lot more "tickets" sold, then I think it makes sense to break it down, if not, then I don't want to divide it into 14 prizes that doesn't give as much money to the orphanage. Group it into 6 or 8 prizes?

BTW, this is the 3rd (maybe 4th) raffle I have done at the forum, so my fear of costs involved and time involved, shipping, emailing, etc is fairly well founded ;)

Opinions?

Check sent directly to Rennwish to maximize the bang for the buck. No need to include me in the raffle but realize it is a great initiative. Ed, raffle donors and raffle participants are to be commended.

Ed,

I think combining prizes from that standpoint makes sense! I think it would be nice if the winner paid the shipping also. Thanks!

Ron