Wow, the site and you guys totally rock.
Allyson, I noticed you don't have any minimum for the raffle. Did you want it to be one name per raffle regardless of how many separate receipts a person may enter? That would prevent someone who was going to donate $50 to make 50 separate $1 donations and increase their odds 50 times of winning a prize. If so, you might want to make that clear on the site.
Also have you thought about adding a second tier to your raffle? Say donations of $100 or more (cumulative) get entered into a grand raffle with maybe dinner with a well-known writer or actor? You could even wait to see if you can get such a prize before offering it. Just a thought.
Wolfram, I thought about the multiple donations, but I think I trust fandom on this one.
I haven't even gotten any scripts yet, so I don't know as I'll be able to get a dinner out of the folks.
I know. It hasn't even been 24 hours. I'm just impatient about shows getting on roads.
I think that tiered donating is a great idea, but I'm not sure that a dinner is the way to go. I mean, I would LOVE to have dinner with Marti Noxon, but getting to LA would make it a bit prohibitive. Maybe a phone call or something like that
Jane's the first to step up to the plate with a signed copy of A New Man, BtVS.
Oh BLESS Jane! Aw, she always strikes me as a sweetheart (on Commentaries and suchlike) - lovely of her to help out.
So I went and delivered the gift bags. After wandering around randomly in wrong directions (have I ever been to New York before? I mean, seriously, WTF), I found the picketers and a woman behind a table, and gave her the bags with a whole spiel about who we are and etc. She asked if I wanted to stay and picket with them, but I got scared and ran away. The only person I recognized was Chris Noth, but as I mentioned, I pretty much just ran away.
Once I got the story out, the woman seemed into it, so that was nice. "Buffistas... like Buffy? You guys know about the Joss Whedon thing in Boston? Are you connected with Fans4Writers?" so at least she had some idea where I was coming from.
PS: Everyone else rocks for giving the money.
Go Jesse!
::waves pompoms. realises she is English, and thus roughly as convincing a cheerleader as Stephen Fry. also, has no pompoms. waves cleavage instead::
