Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: sleek on January 21, 2015, 05:02:17 pm
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I was considering building a bow and raffling it off to fund shipping to our overseas guys who want to participate but cant due to shipping. Any ideas on this like price per ticket? Method of payment? Id ask a moderator to hold the money for the raffle. With a bit of luck enough will be made to cover shipping both ways. Let me know what yall think.
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Have people send it via pay pal and u can just hold it in ur account. Then use to pay shipping
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I didnt want to ever see the money because I didnt want my intentions questioned.
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It could be sent to a moderators pay pal.
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Thats the thought, or have a PayPal set up just for it. I need to figure out a good price for the tickets that way we can get a good ratio or participants per dollar raised.
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Who is making the Raffle bow?
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Well, I thought I would. Of course, not sure if that will help or hurt.:)
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I read that after ;D. How many people are planning on the trade from the UK? Just one?
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So far as I can tell.
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Any moderators able to help with collecting the money?
Also id like an idea of participation so if you be interested in participating for say, $10 per ticket let me know before I pull the trigger on this and it turns out to be a dud.
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I would suggest that the fund only cover the difference between North American shipping and shipping to wherever.
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sleek, I shipped a short, light mass bow to China by USPS and it cost me $30.00, I shipped an overlength stave to Vermont and with insurance it cost me $35.00. I am in Florida.
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If you use PayPal, do not mention raffle, drawing, tickets, or anything that indicates it is "gambling". I got raked over the coals last year by PayPal and they locked up the money we raised to bring Del over to the Classic. Took me two months to finally straighten things out.
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That is really good to know! Now I just need someone important to volunteer a PayPal account for this and a list of folks actually interested at $10 a ticket that way I know this will be a viable thing. Any funds raised over the shipping amount will be used for future bow trades. Id do this every year if this works out with participation. Remember though, your not buying tickets TO win a bow, your doing this to HELP a fellow member or two out.
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What if you raffle off a bow and someone in Europe wins it. Then you have to use all the money raised to ship the prize to the winner. I'm seeing a Catch-22 here. :D :D
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Hehe, good point. Sorry all my overseas guys, yall are exempt from this deal unless you just wanna help out.
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If you get this up and going I'd be willing to chip in. Whether it's a raffle, or just a collection, doesn't matter to me.
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Id buy a chance for the cause
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If it helps i can use my drill pay for his bow. Id be willing to spend it so its not like im reluctant. Just shoot me a pm on here if you guys want to do that.
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You should tell one of the guys running the bow trade if your willing to do that. Real nice of you.
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Just pm them
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Have you guys heard of freight forwarding companies, such as MYUS.COM or Bongo International etc? A customer/recipient of a bow from outside America can take out membership which usually doesn't cost any money, and it gives them a postal address in the USA. The maker/seller ships the bow locally to one of the warehouses. These companies get much better rates than private citizens from couriers like DHL, UPS, etc, so full length bows can be shipped at significant savings, even when local postage is added to the total.
I have used them plenty of times for ebay vintage bow purchases, they can also consolidate several packages from different sellers into one shipment.
Hamish.
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I'm willing to help by buying tickets or with the extra bow.
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I would need at least ten people to help make this happen. So far, I have 3. Ten people would give us $100, not much but at least some, enough to help. And I still need someone to step up with a PayPal.
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Hey sleek , I appreciate what you are doing here. Great gesture. Not sure how many international bowyers are involved at this time but I am one who is paying for shipping, "anywhere". Ideally I would like to pay no more than $100 but I am committed at this point and will stick to my "anywhere" status, no matter the cost. fyi.
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You may be right, we may have all overseas shipping covered. Im not sure, but I was going to do this anyway to help when it was needed. Im surprised at the lack of participants for this. It may not work anyway. Gonna give it a few more days.
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One of us could open up a bank account with $ from the tickets, don't say it is a business, then open a paypal account, nobody's personal account would be connected to it. A comment from my wife, she's smart.
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I also committed to anywhere, but still believe the participation of members would be great.
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I'm in for a ticket or two if you don't have me down already.
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I would take a ticket myself. Just let me know where to send the money! Patrick
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count me in for a ticket or two.
As much as I'd like to, I dont participate in the trades because... well, because nobody would want anything I make :) (yes, seriously.) So this is actually a nice way for me to participate in the trades - so you're actually doing 2 nice things in one!
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Guys, due to a general lack of interest in this im going to hold on it. Should a need arise I will open this again and go from there. Thanks to all those willing to help.
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I'm in,even though I have more bows than arrows.