Trying something new.. Raffle auctions(Trade Fed project)

[Eyeke]

We at the Trade Federation are always looking to meet the EC customer's needs.
One thing that people have talked about and showed interest in would be item raffles.

Raffles will take place once all the tickets are sold on an item. You will be given a number and a Trade Federation member will /random 1 # and winner will be announced. You don't have to be present to win.
Worst case, these items will be raffled Friday at 5PM EST, to whatever tickets are purchased.

So to start this process, here is our first list of raffle items, and the ticket prices for the raffle. List will show (Number of purchased tickets / Number available):

Orb of Tishan (4/10) $1k/ticket
51 DE Warrior, full visible indico set.. carnal pauldrons, Painbringer and amygdalan tendril, 21% sky belt, has Jboots Won by Aquafresh
Imbued Fighting Staff 38/40 2hbWon by Whiteboyafro
Flowing Black Silk SashFinished, won by FEMALETRADER



We have many more items in the 10k+ range we'd like to do in this format, trying to test out the market and see what people's interest is.

Raffles will take place once all the tickets are sold on an item. You will be given a number and a Trade Federation member will /random 1 # and winner will be announced.

If you have items you'd like to have sold in this format please contact a member of the Trade Federation

[Nijaxx]

I like the idea! Nice =)

[Seeatee]

question, you say 5 dollars for a raffle ticket for the warrior, is that 5 RL dollars? does this count as a RMT?

[Enderenter]

There are no dollars, it's listed in thousand plat amounts.

[Nijaxx]

It says $5k. So either he means $5000 dollars or 5000 plat. Pretty sure its plat =P

[Seeatee]

indeed i see the K now, never seen the $ used in association with K before so it threw me :eek:

[Asher]

Why cap the amount of tickets a person can buy?

If for some reason a person wants to pay half the amount of the items value in tickets instead of buying the item himself he should be able to in my opinion. This will also shorten the length of the auction time which is a good thing.

Asher

[Eyeke]

Asher good question
we'll see how it goes and may change it up. I'd rather have more people enter than half two people square off. I guess it doesn't matter though.

removing that restriction for now

[Asher]

51 DE Warrior, full visible indico set.. carnal pauldrons, Painbringer and amygdalan tendril, 21% sky belt, Jboots (1/15) $5k/ticket



One more question.

Is this Chtulu? With his rep people should at least know what they are getting.


Asher

[Eyeke]

no not chtulu
i escrowed that deal the other week. this war was an alt of a high level char who needed plat.. so we bought it to kick start this program.

[Fromage]

Pretty cool idea actually

[bbkkoo]

okie question you said Jboot 5k is per a ticket cause i know jboot is 5-6k..to buy MQ,
yeah just edit and yup you mess up on jboot no way is it 5k per a ticket when in game it's 5-6k to buy

[bbkkoo]

skip raffle i want aht jbot 6k offer seller provide rapier and gold in rathe

[Eyeke]

okie question you said Jboot 5k is per a ticket cause i know jboot is 5-6k..to buy MQ,
yeah just edit and yup you mess up on jboot no way is it 5k per a ticket when in game it's 5-6k to buy

Warrior has jboots.
sorry if it wasn't clear, I'll try to rewrite it.

4 FBSS, 2 Account tickets so far. Will keep collecting until we sell out or 5PM EST friday.

[DandoeRZ]

I like this. bump!

[Eyeke]

Good morning, We're getting closer to our raffle time, I believe the FBSS may go today if sales keep their current pace!
The other items only have one ticket purchased so far, those people may luck into a very cheap purchase.

[Spacebar]

I like this idea and I hope this auctioning system works out. It would be nice to see something like this again.

I have a quick question,though. I just purchased one of the tickets and I'm wondering if the winning numbers will be announced in this forum as well as in-game? I think this was indicated in your post, but I wanted to make sure.

[Eyeke]

I will post screenshot of roll and also announce winner in EC.

http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg7/scaled.php?server=7&filename=fbss.jpg&res=medium

[Spacebar]

Thanks for the quick reply, Eyeke :)

[Ridez]

<- Femaletrader Cool concept, delivered the FBSS to me at T3.

[Eyeke]

Bump. Sold a few more tickets yesterday, hopefully will have things pick up today!

[Eyeke]

Had a low 50s chanter come into EC this evening and buy up the remaining tickets on the Account.. rolled a 13 and Aquafresh was the winner.
http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/1851/accountraffle.jpg

[Eyeke]

Today is the day! Will raffle these final two items off this afternoon. Your chances of winning them for a 1k ticket purchase is very high as we haven't sold many tickets.

Thanks to all of you who have participated so far and good luck to those who have tickets in the pending raffles!

[Eyeke]

IFS auction ended. sold some tickets this morning and then had someone buy last 10 tickets up

random came in at 14, and winner was there to pick it up. Congrats

http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/9811/ifsraffle.jpg

[Eyeke]

http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/8992/orbk.jpg

Grats Taysh on your win. had a few people show up just after we finished and wanted tickets.. but they were too late!

this raffle was a 1/4 chance. Taysh picked up the orb for 1k at 25% odds. not bad!

[shdwdrake8]

I'd be down for an item I'd actually want. =) I'm a gamblin man for sure.

[Eyeke]

what kind of items?
This sort of thing is more fun to me than just random selling so i'm open to whatever. tell me what you wanna see raffle and I'll put it together.

[Harrison]

I love the tags of all the haters. Seriously, it's hilarious.