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Waiting on my call. The drawing was 2/28. Winners to be announced in a couple of weeks.
See my picture here soon!
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I didn't get a call. :-(
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yep I bought one ticket last month
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I wouldn't win if I had all the tickets!
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I'm still not convinced that their raffles are on the up-and-up. They announce winners, show their pictures with the cars, then no one ever sees the cars again. Do all the cars get bought up by rich collectors and stored in their private warehouses? I would expect to occasionally see one of the raffle cars at one of the big auctions,
Also, $40,000 isn't going to be anywhere near enough money to pay the taxes if both cars are real Shelby's. The 67 alone should be worth $150,000. Plus, you have to pay taxes on the $40,000.
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Hornman wrote:
I'm still not convinced that their raffles are on the up-and-up. They announce winners, show their pictures with the cars, then no one ever sees the cars again. Do all the cars get bought up by rich collectors and stored in their private warehouses? I would expect to occasionally see one of the raffle cars at one of the big auctions,
Also, $40,000 isn't going to be anywhere near enough money to pay the taxes if both cars are real Shelby's. The 67 alone should be worth $150,000. Plus, you have to pay taxes on the $40,000.
I'm with ya Hornman. Why does it take 2 weeks to announce the winner. It's not like someone died and you have to find the next of kin before announcing the name. I not a gambler but I do buy tickets sometimes. I usually only buy tickets that come out based on the Pennsylvania daily number. Then I know if I won.
One other note on tickets. When I was young, our softball team was selling tickets to raise money or a local boy who had cancer. I took some tickets to work to sell to the guys I worked with. An older guy who never bought any tickets, asked what I was selling for. When I told him, he bought 2 and told me to put the boys name on them. He said if one of those tickets hit, give him all the money. I've been doing this ever since then, if it's for a good cause. Not tooting my own horn, just think its a nice thing to do so I'm passing it on.
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I will give you the truth about the guy that runs this, but you ain't gonna like it.
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Great Greg, now I wonder if those two red Shelby's even exist. I sure hope MS didn't spend a lot of his retirement money on tickets.
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Thanks for posting that article, Greg. Interesting reading. I knew from the beginning that it was not really a charity thing. My interest in winning was my only reason to buy a few tickets. I did research to be sure they actually gave away cars in the previous events.
Yes there is a bad side to this. But, would I have contributed to a kid's charity at all if the sweepstakes had not come along? Probably not. I figured it was a raffle where the folks running it would receive many times the amount spent on the cars, but some lucky guy would actually get the cars and the cash. My research showed that did actually occur. And, in the process, a few kids did maybe receive something, which is more than nothing - the amount they would have received otherwise. I am not trying to defend their actions of only donating a very small amount of their donations. I did not go into this blindly. Purely on greed to get that something for "nothing" thing. And if I did not win, at least some of the funds went to charity.
To help out, if I win this thing, ONE of the cars will be taken to auction and the entire amount netted from the auction will be donated directly to a charity that gives as much as possible to the folks that need it. And you are now commissioned to hold me accountable to those words. Now, let the phone ring telling me I won!
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