What can we say? We had full intentions of giving away a hellcat, we got an allocation, and sales fell short. We then heard the prices were too high, and no one wanted a Hellcat. So we reduced the raffle price, got an allocation for an ACR, and again, sales fell short.
Ive read in the same place that ragged on this raffle as illegal, that we intended to fall short, and this is all a sham (as the space shuttle post implies). Why would we go through the trouble to get an allocation (and yes the hellcat raffle winner took our allocation anyway) if this was just a money grab? I bet we would have sold more tickets if we just said it was cash, and it certainly would have been a lot easier.
With the headwinds that exist (lack of Viper enthusiasm, defamation, libel and slander from despicable individuals) we obviously can't sell more than 500 tickets no matter what we do. We can all cry and complain and raise our fists, but the facts are the facts, if not enough people buy tickets, we cleary can't give away a car that costs 100k when only ~50k comes in.
Maybe doing a raffle hidden as a door prize and forcing people that come to VOI to particpate in a raffle IS the right way to do it, I'm sure Bill is open to suggestions on fundraisers if anyone has some...
Have to get mine the hard way.
