Raffle Ticket Printing » laws http://www.raffleticketprinting.co.uk Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:46:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Bottom of the Barrel http://www.raffleticketprinting.co.uk/random-thoughts/156 http://www.raffleticketprinting.co.uk/random-thoughts/156#comments Fri, 29 May 2009 21:47:10 +0000 ticketprinting http://www.raffleticketprinting.co.uk/random-thoughts/156 Before you print your own Raffle Tickets you must have something to print upon them. That’s the law! Your Raffle Tickets must specify the top three prizes being offered to your supporters. In the past, this column has devoted pages to the consideration of honest, legitimate prizes: objects and services you may be able to obtain, which people will want to pay money to gamble on winning.

But suppose you’ve exhausted your valid options? You’re no longer welcome at the charitable car dealership, the socially minded art-collector’s, the business-like pet groomer? What if no one wants to help your cause?

When you’re all out of options, we present to you

Irreverent Prizes for Desperate Fundraisers*

  • Take my spouse, please! What? She keeps saying she wants to get out more often! They do it on reality TV. Specify time limits if you want him/her back.
  • No one said anything about new! If your car is worth less than your monthly loan payments, consider that an old clunker might be worth fifty pence to someone
  • What’s behind door number two? Time to clean out the attic. Great-grandmother’s collection of rusty spoons, a pram with three wheels, that pile of antique hubcaps on your neighbor’s lawn: stuff it into an unmarked box and sell chances at the unknown mystery prize (specify no returns).
  • Kid friendly Your children clamor for a sense of independence! Offer it to them by selling their unique skills in a draw. Tiny hands are brilliant at cleaning out tight spaces like gutters! Or, your immobile couch potato kid can put his skills to use working as a coffee table.
  • Fabulous-ish Trying to get out of that family or high school reunion? Offer up your identity for one night. Winners get to visit exotic locales and meet new people, while inheriting a whole new set of problems to make them feel better about their own lives. Works best if the event includes an open bar.
  • Please include head shots at time of purchase Have you a copy of Photoshop? Winners receive a set of lovely doctored holiday snaps proving they’ve been to Majorca, Cairo, New York. All the benefits of holiday with none of the hassle.
  • What’s the opposite of fabulous? Can you sing tunelessly, for a long time? Express offensive political opinions? Force your company on others? Do so with a vengeance, then raffle off the ability to make it stop!

Well, thanks for bearing with us thus far! And check back for more silly (and even more serious) suggestions for running the best raffle ever!

* For comic purposes only. Involuntary human servitude and enforced child labor are definitely illegal in the UK. Check local laws or your Gaming Council for other limitations of charity draws.

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