Protouring Raffle Poll

[Jim Nilsen]

I don't believe that we are having this raffle to beat the house or the odds. I know what you are thinking but does it apply here for what we are trying to accomplish?

We have 3000 people that are members and more who come here and not all of them have $100 for a ticket and if they did they probably can afford to build their own car rather nicely.

I believe this raffle is for the sponsors and the good of spreading Pro-Touring to others that don't quite get it yet. If 3000 people buy tickets more people will know about the sponsors, the lifestyle and maybe be lucky enough to get a $75,000 plus car. Without a large number of people the value of the car won't be able to be as much. 3000 x $25 is $75,000 if we go $50 it could be a $150,000 car.You can't win the Mule for less in my opinion and I would like the car to be as nice as the Mule. And if I was a sponsor I would want as many people as possible to know and enter. PHR has a rather large subscription rate yet advertisiers sometimes barley get enough response from an add to make it worthwhile.I know because I have been there. Doing advertising like this is as much of a risk or more for the time,money and effort involved and I would like to see it happen more than once.

I would rather spend less for a chance to win a higher dollar car than a lower dollar car and have a higher ticket price. Odds are I won't win it if there are only 10 people involved. Do you think a raffle of 10 people for $5,000 per chance for a $50,000 car would help the sponsors? or bring PT to a higher level just because the odds are better?

This isn't about being able to get an expensive PT car for free to me. If you all want to have it be that then sell raffle tickets for your own car and see if it will be worth it.



For those of you with a lot of money to buy in, buy a lot of tickets. You keep telling the odds will be the same so it shouldn't be a problem for you. For the guy that can't spend that or the guy that isn't much of a gambler, high dollar raffles are a deterent. I usually only buy raffle tickets that the money goes to a good cause. I personally don't like the gambling boats and casinos for the reason that poor people just spend money on hope instead of the things in life that are important.

I hope you understand that from a business point of view that the more coverage that this gets the better it is for the sponsors and that is why they would want to do it. That's why car dealers donate cars for charity raffles.

Lets not let greed get in the way just so someone who can afford to build the car anyway can get it for cheap and brag about it.Keeping the little guy out of it won't help the cause since we all know who the suppliers are and what Pro- Touring is all about.

I really want to encourage instead of discourage people to come here.

Just my thoughts and whether you agree or not probably won't matter to the winner anyway unless he wins with 1 $25 ticket and knows he beat the odds and POed some guy who bought $500 worth of tickets.

Jim Nilsen