time for a new contest?

bagster · December 04, 2006, 09:32:55 AM

Hey, if any admin can get a Wii, why not make a "donation" contest like last time, with tickets at 10$?

-a canadian tired of making phone calls to find a Wii

onekelly · December 04, 2006, 03:00:38 PM

That would be awesome to do. Is there a programmer out there we want to thank with cash for their work?

sinkhead · December 04, 2006, 03:38:03 PM

I think he's implying that the prize would be a Wii, which would be awesome
- Sam

PS: If you're looking for a Wii, try the link in my signature

onekelly · December 04, 2006, 04:41:32 PM

i understood the question, but did not phrase my statement well. what i was trying to say was that it was nice that scdev raffled off a dslink and 1gig card and all the proceeds went to link. It would be nice to do the same thing, or like a DS homebrew of the year award. Someone on scdev gets a wii, and the programmer gets the cash, after wii costs if we could not get one donated. something like that.

DeVS · December 04, 2006, 05:51:50 PM

We could do the Wii thing, it's just a matter of finding a damn Wii,lol. Plus we run into the dilemma of the Wii's being region locked so if I bought a Wii here in the states and someone in China won they couldn't play the Wii. We could do a raffle where people pay for tickets and the winner gets all the money so they could go and buy a Wii on there own where they live?

PharaohsVizier · December 04, 2006, 07:11:30 PM

If you do contests, I think you should stick to flashcarts. It is hard to find someone generous enough to donate a flashcart, let alone a Wii, that costs many times more. Even with the tickets, covering the cost of a Wii is hard, if it is $10 per ticket, there isn't much to give to programmers, if you raise the price, some people won't join. I think a good raffle would be a flashcart like the DS-X or something along those lines.

DeVS · December 04, 2006, 07:45:06 PM

We dont have to make it for devs, we can just have it for here. If we did it at $10 per ticket we would need to sell atleast 27 tickets to coer cost of Wii and then we would just give the winner all $270 to buy the Wii at there local store in their country. If we sell more then we can use the xtra cash to give away Supercard Rumbles or DS-Xtremes depending on how much xtra we raise. It is being discussed behind the scenes but please give us more ideas of how it would work best for you guys (like cost of tickets,ect).

onekelly · December 05, 2006, 01:38:03 AM

I like your ideas Devs,with the winner getting the cash to purchase a wii and the extras could buy like you said scrumbles or maybe even dollar amount gift certificates at our own sponser, realhotstuff.

Also the one thing I remember about the raffle 2 times ago, was that you had to have certain amount of posts to enter the drawing, though that one was a no cost raffle.....well i am rambling....but I would like to see the prizes go to our members at this site and not a person at another site who just bought a ticket. (I would throw a 20 at it for sure).

At first I thought the 10 dollar ticket price was a little high, but looking at the possible prizes, it is just right. The persons buying the tickets may be less which helps with the odds but the dollar amount collected will most likely stay the same.

DeVS · December 05, 2006, 02:13:24 AM

Ya it would be in house raffle. I wont limit it to a certain amount of post per say but it wont be advertised around the net like the one for Lick.

onekelly · December 05, 2006, 02:20:29 AM

yeah, that makes sense. how do you feel about the 10 dollar range?

after the wii cash, and if there is extra cash left over, are you thinking of individual carts to give away or do you like the idea of gift certs from RHS

DeVS · December 05, 2006, 10:33:09 AM

Ya I like the idea of gift certifs from RHS.

bitblt · December 05, 2006, 01:10:19 PM

Quote from: "DeVS"Ya I like the idea of gift certifs from RHS.

Yeah, me too. Maybe we could do something like . . .

1st - 50% proceeds
2nd - 20% proceeds
3rd - 10% proceeds
4th - 10% proceeds
5th - 10% proceeds

. . . or something like that.

onekelly · December 05, 2006, 02:07:33 PM

Quote from: "bitblt"
Quote from: "DeVS"Ya I like the idea of gift certifs from RHS.
Yeah, me too. Maybe we could do something like . . .

1st - 50% proceeds
2nd - 20% proceeds
3rd - 10% proceeds
4th - 10% proceeds
5th - 10% proceeds

. . . or something like that.

The way you described may be better way to go as long as the 1st place gets at least the minimum needed to buy a Wii. If we have sold enough tickets (54 tickets or greater) I like bitblt way of thinking.

But, if we do not get enought tickets sold we need to do something like this, for example it takes 27 tickets at $10 to get a wii and we only have sold 35 tickets. 1st place gets $270.00, 2nd and 3rd split the resr in $50 to 2nd and $30 to 3rd...

DeVS · December 05, 2006, 02:43:24 PM

That sounds like a winnner to me. The more tickets sold the greater the chance of someone winning something due to having the xtra cash to give away. No limit on number of tickets people can buy, no post count limit,ect.

onekelly · December 05, 2006, 02:55:52 PM

Perfect! Fire up the official post machine and graphic, so i can drop a twenty.