Is it wrong to sell raffle prizes......

piglet25

It won't make any difference to the charity if you sell them or stuff them in a cupboard, they had their money off the raffle tickets - sell them and treat yourself

Attila_the_Bun

fabforty wrote: »

- I really don't want to walk around with a £1000 phone, and the make-up is just not suitable for my skin. I was initially going to give it away, until I discovered that it retails at £550!

Is it really a no-no to sell raffle prizes?

Not sure if it's a no-no as such but I wouldn't have gone round blurting out to all and sundry that I wanted to flog the prizes and make a profit from them. That profit money could have gone to the charities, for starters.

Mojisola

Attila_the_Bun wrote: »

Not sure if it's a no-no as such but I wouldn't have gone round blurting out to all and sundry that I wanted to flog the prizes and make a profit from them. That profit money could have gone to the charities, for starters.

Why is keeping the prize okay but converting the prize into money is 'making a profit' from the charity?

Attila_the_Bun

Mojisola wrote: »

Why is keeping the prize okay but converting the prize into money is 'making a profit' from the charity?

It's just a bit rude, IMO.

If you don't want the prize, don't buy tickets to win it, - simples! Just make a donation to the charity.

Someone else might have loved to genuinely win and keep that iPhone and make-up.

Mojisola

Attila_the_Bun wrote: »

It's just a bit rude, IMO.

If you don't want the prize, don't buy tickets to win it, - simples! Just make a donation to the charity.

Someone else might have loved to genuinely win and keep that iPhone and make-up.

I just don't understand the reasoning.

The person who buys the iPhone will get a bargain and be happy; the prize winner will have some cash to buy something they want and be happy; the charity got the money for the raffle tickets and isn't any worse off so they are happy.

ColinFishwick

You won fair and square its yours to do with what you want. If you feel charitable perhaps make a small donation afterwards but its entirely at your discretion you have no need to feel any quilt

Attila_the_Bun

Mojisola wrote: »

I just don't understand the reasoning.

The person who buys the iPhone will get a bargain and be happy; the prize winner will have some cash to buy something they want and be happy; the charity got the money for the raffle tickets and isn't any worse off so they are happy.

I don't understand why someone would want to buy tickets to win something they don't want.

It's taking the chance away from someone else who genuinely did want to win it, which is a bit annoying.

NeilCr

Back on the which charity debate (and the circumstances surrounding the raffle)

I support a couple of local charities. One, an animal sanctuary, is permanently short of funds (I know, as are many charities).

It would be very unlikely that they would have the level of raffle prize detailed here. If they did (and, of course, they may well be better served just to sell it themselves) and I won, I’d sell it and give them all the money.

After all the reason I would be buying the raffle tickets was to support the charity. And, I know just what the money could do

However, if it was for a “big” nationwide charity I’d probably think differently.

Maybe not the most logical but that’s me (illogical sometimes!)

RADDERS

Attila_the_Bun wrote: »

I don't understand why someone would want to buy tickets to win something they don't want.

It's taking the chance away from someone else who genuinely did want to win it, which is a bit annoying.

But they might of been hoping to win the second or third prize, we have won before and asked if we want to swap prizes if not to our taste or needed.

NeilCr

Attila_the_Bun wrote: »

I don't understand why someone would want to buy tickets to win something they don't want.

It's taking the chance away from someone else who genuinely did want to win it, which is a bit annoying.

But, surely, the point in buying tickets in a charity raffle is to give money to the charity - not win prizes

Of course, if it wasn’t a charity raffle which sounds like one of them might be, then I’d agree - with the caveat there may be some prizes I might want