Topic: Just in time for HALLOWEEN, (MUST SEE)

[75transam]

Am I alone in feeling this way, or does anybody else sometimes have the urge to buy this thing just to put an end to it?

Well, with the slumping economy and Bush's $600 welfare check to all the happy citizens that make less than 75 grand I say make the guy an offer of $600.  That way the economy will be stimulated 

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Am I alone in feeling this way, or does anybody else sometimes have the urge to buy this thing just to put an end to it?

LOL  I was thinking the same thing today...buy it...repaint it... and sell it once and for all.

[BACnBLK]

There over 1500 member's here, We could all mail Brett 10 buck's each to buy the car

and then pick the winning raffle number?

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I'm up for that 

[Hitman]

I have actually thought about doing that in the past.  Doing some sort of a raffle for a chance to win a Trans Am.  Do you think that would go over?  Maybe a raffle with a $50 ticket price and only 1000 tickets sold, so you would have a 1 in 1000 chance to win a Trans Am.

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How many birds does the winner get for $50K ? 

[kentuckyyeti]

As in a Hitman-restored car?  I'd be in for that.

[Hitman]

How many birds does the winner get for $50K ? 

You don't get any for $50,000... the winner gets one Trans Am for $50.

[kentuckyyeti]

So are you talking about a restored T/A or a nice driver?  I think you should post a sticky/poll to see how much interest there would be. 

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I assume a $50K raffle pot would give the winner a well restored bird.

I still like the idea of $10. x 1000 members to buy the orange bird on eBay...or $15. x 1000 members would buy the car and get it a repaint...then you could raffle that car maybe.

[Rick]

I think you'd have to watch the laws on Internet gambling and Ohio laws about raffles.  It's done for charity all the time but it can get sticky, depending on the political ambitions of your local attorney general.

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Rick has a point...I just learned recently from a friend about the hoops you have to jump through to set up a legal raffle.

Just paint one red and cover it with tape...that way the government will like it. 

[brian c]

And at least in NY you're going to raise a heck of a lot of flags with the DMV when you declare the car to be "purchased" for $50. They want all the tax money they can get so a declared value would need to be set to make the legal weenies happy.

[Rick]

I just learned recently from a friend about the hoops you have to jump through to set up a legal raffle.

Of course, Brett could rig it to look like the car was registered in Liberia and the raffle was based in the Cayman Islands...

[kentuckyyeti]

Or I can buy all the chances.  Just received this email.

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I can't hardly make out the first two lines, but I bet Jeff and Rick will decipher them for me.