| From: | zebulingod@*******.net (Zebulin) |
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| Subject: | Get a free SR4 book when it comes out... (WAS: RE: ShadowrunFour) |
| Date: | Tue, 5 Jul 2005 17:39:46 -0700 |
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#There are going to be a lot of logistical considerations to
#making this happen in addition keeping track of who
#contributes what to the lottery pool...
#
#You'll need to account for PayPal taking their cut before you
#have the money in your account...
#
#You'll need to figure on shipping and handling for all the
#locations to which items will need to be delivered.
#
#You'll need to worry about currency exchange (should be
#trivial in today's world).
#
#You'll need to deal with the ability to purchase with an
#account and have it delivered to a completely different person
#(not trivial in these days of identity theft protections).
#
#You'll need to come up with a reasonable price for a lottery
#ticket (too low and the 'odds of winning'
#become too high to be attractive, too high and it becomes more
#attractive just to go out and buy one on one's own).
#
#You need to set up the basic rules for the lottery:
#A) Can someone buy more than 1 lottery ticket?
#2) Can a single person win more than 1 book?
#iii) What is the timeline for opening/closing the lottery?
#delta) What happens if you don't get enough *actual* interest
#to buy even a single book?
#
#My experience with this sort of thing is that a lottery ticket
#price that is between 1/8th and 1/10th of the retail price is
#the most advanctageous. I would also set it so that an
#individual cannot win more than once, and I'd close the
#lottery and select the winners well before the books become available.
#
#Keeping track of who bought how many lottery tickets is easy;
#PayPal keeps track of it for you... Keeping that information
#in an open/honest/independently-varifiable
#way in not possible in a simple way... However, I've found
#that you can go to your PayPal account, view the History, save
#it as a webpage, complete, edit out private information, then
#upload it to a public server so that eveyone can see it. If a
#person who has purchased a lottery ticket doesn't see his
#transaction on the public webpage, then he or she can speak up...
#
#It's not perfect, but it is easy. It's predicated upon the
#people participating to be forthright, and I really like that.
#
#>PS: Mods, if this sort of thing isn't allowed, let me know and I'll
#>shut it down.
#
You bring up a lot of good points. I'm just judging interest right now. I'll
post something in a moment to see what sort of response people would have,
and the "lottery" will run until a week before Gencon (to give time to sort
and decide who's getting a book).
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