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I've been having an amusing discussion with a member about the raffles that we are currently running, and it's been enlightening to say the least. I've tried to stay polite through this, but I don't like being called a liar or a thief.
I'm not going to publish the emails quite yet, but they are pretty amusing thus far...
Apparently he thinks that this is a scam operation, and we are out bilking you guys of your hard earned money by allowing the raffles to sell more tickets than the cost of the knives, and that we've sold 1000 tickets thus far. He's using his "golf tournament raffles" as his proof that we're scamming you guys, etc.
So, just to remove any illusions, here's the current status on a few things:
We've currently sold:
78 raffle tickets for the Sifu
20 raffle tickets for the Blue Native
36 raffle tickets for the ATAK (our only donated knife)
Do the math on the amount of tickets sold and you'll see that we're not making ton's and ton's of money off this. So, again, this is not a scam, and we are not bilking people out of thousands of dollars to line our greedy capitalist pig running dog imperialist lackey pockets.
He's also of the impression that the more tickets that are sold, the less the knife is worth to him(?) This is not true. The relative value of the knives to him is inversely proportional to how many tickets he buys. In other words, the more he buys, the less the knife is worth to him. The number of tickets we sell is a completely separate variable from this, and has no bearing on the issue.
I believe he's confusing his odds of winning with how much the knife is worth and some other variables, but it's hard to follow his logic. The more tickets we sell, the lower the chances of winning are, but it doesn't change the value of the knife to the winner.
He also seems to believe that a raffle should operate like a lottery for some reason, which is a mystery to me, since the two are pretty clear in their differences.
He's also of the mistaken impression that this site makes ton's of money and that the banner ads more than cover the bandwidth and software costs. Again, he's sadly mistaken.
Finally, despite his self-perceived omniscience and repeated requests from me, he's yet to provide any sort of solution to our costs problems. Arm-chair quarterbacking at it's finest.
So, whoever among you is getting emails from this Troll, please feel free to ask me or Mike any questions you want about this, and we'll be happy to explain away any mysteries.
Spark
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Kevin Jon Schlossberg
SysOp and Administrator for BladeForums.com
Insert witty quip here
[This message has been edited by Spark (edited 17 December 1999).]
I'm not going to publish the emails quite yet, but they are pretty amusing thus far...
Apparently he thinks that this is a scam operation, and we are out bilking you guys of your hard earned money by allowing the raffles to sell more tickets than the cost of the knives, and that we've sold 1000 tickets thus far. He's using his "golf tournament raffles" as his proof that we're scamming you guys, etc.
So, just to remove any illusions, here's the current status on a few things:
We've currently sold:
78 raffle tickets for the Sifu
20 raffle tickets for the Blue Native
36 raffle tickets for the ATAK (our only donated knife)
Do the math on the amount of tickets sold and you'll see that we're not making ton's and ton's of money off this. So, again, this is not a scam, and we are not bilking people out of thousands of dollars to line our greedy capitalist pig running dog imperialist lackey pockets.
He's also of the impression that the more tickets that are sold, the less the knife is worth to him(?) This is not true. The relative value of the knives to him is inversely proportional to how many tickets he buys. In other words, the more he buys, the less the knife is worth to him. The number of tickets we sell is a completely separate variable from this, and has no bearing on the issue.
I believe he's confusing his odds of winning with how much the knife is worth and some other variables, but it's hard to follow his logic. The more tickets we sell, the lower the chances of winning are, but it doesn't change the value of the knife to the winner.
He also seems to believe that a raffle should operate like a lottery for some reason, which is a mystery to me, since the two are pretty clear in their differences.
He's also of the mistaken impression that this site makes ton's of money and that the banner ads more than cover the bandwidth and software costs. Again, he's sadly mistaken.
Finally, despite his self-perceived omniscience and repeated requests from me, he's yet to provide any sort of solution to our costs problems. Arm-chair quarterbacking at it's finest.
So, whoever among you is getting emails from this Troll, please feel free to ask me or Mike any questions you want about this, and we'll be happy to explain away any mysteries.
Spark
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Kevin Jon Schlossberg
SysOp and Administrator for BladeForums.com
Insert witty quip here
[This message has been edited by Spark (edited 17 December 1999).]
