New Raffle - Ends Jan 25th, 2002

[ProjectCougar]

Cougar Parts Online is pleased to announce that we will be holding a raffle. The product that will be raffled off will be the following:

One Pair of European Tail Lamps ($199)
One Wire harness Set for Lamps ($50)
Shipping of Above Products ($25)

The total value of the raffle is $274. Products will be shipped via USPS 2-3 Day Priority Mail. Winner will be contacted via e-mail for shipping information.

This auction will run until midnight, January 25th, 2002. The winner will be randomly selected and will be announced on January 26th, 2002. All payments received after the 25th will not be entered into the raffle and will not be reversed.

Unlimited tickets can be purchased for this raffle. The price per ticket is $5.00. Payment must be sent via the paypal link below or by money order. All payments must be received by January 25th. Please make Money Orders out to James Howard and send to company address listed below.

All proceeds from this raffle will go towards the development of Cougar Headers and Upper Intake Manifold Replacements. These parts will be offered at a later date by Cougar Parts Online.

Official Raffle Page (http://www.customcougars.com/raffle.htm)

Address for Money Orders
P.O. Box 299
Dahlgren, VA 22448

Thanks. James

Edit: Bumping to the top! - FastCougar

[ProjectCougar]

Current Entries - 69

Daniel Bates - 2
Kyle Husted - 1
Scott Cunningham - 3
Max Leonard - 2
Chris Clark - 2
Jon Janssen - 1
Craig Flango - 2
Trevor Cole - 3
Micah Stanley - 1
Zach Granoff - 1
Richard Knuth - 1
Chanel Nguyen - 2
Fernando Semedo - 2
Marc Harper - 5
Angeline Gallicchio - 1
Brad Callahan - 5
Darrell Chaffey - 1
Richard Ivey - 1
Henry Valle - 1
jeremy lambert -1
Brian Borden - 3
Shawn Hastwell - 1
Carl Szydlowski - 2
Matt Terpstra - 4
Keith Brown - 1
David Lepak - 2
Joel Mello - 1
Robert Schaeffer - 2
Patricia Keith - 1
Arthur Barkside - 3
Nick Oven - 2
Christina Conter - 1
Tad Sligar - 6
Jeremy Boysen - 1
Michael Sanchez - 1


Total Collected so far: $316.17

[ProjectCougar]

If anyone else has an idea for a raffle, please post. We are trying to raise funds to help develop the new Intake Manifolds and Headers. Fastcougar supports this per phone conversation last night.

[FastCougar]

Yeah, before anyone jumps down James throat about this, I am aware of this raffle and even offered to host it. However, James is also a web developer and is able to host all the content he can muster :) I personally don't own a Cougar any more, so I will not be participating, but it I did, I would buy tickets just for the cause. Time for people to put their wallet where their mouth is when it comes to complaining about no aftermarket. James has busted his butt the last couple of weeks and has gone through the trouble of driving this car to California and has left it there for a month now and has no plans on picking it up for at least 2-3 more months. This type of dedication is greatly appriated James! Hopefully the results will be impressive!

[Fern]

The page that you linked in your posts says that the proceeds will go towards development of new headers and intake manifolds. Are you willing to elaborate on them?

[ProjectCougar]

Fern: Details were posted in Duratech Performance. The proceeds from this auction will go directly towards buying the SVT upper IM and MSDS Headers so the company can have a performance base model to begin development of their kits.

At this time BAT Inc will be providing the UIM and NECO member will be providing the headers.

[Fern]

Oops... didn't check the Duratec section today.

[StreetConcepts]

I just put down a 10 spot

[FastCougar]

I'm in for $15 ... what the hell ... I'm all for Cougar R&D!

Not sure what I will do if I end up winning :)

Probably sell them to Craig for $15.01 + S&H :biggrin:

[ov3n]

Trevor-
Just have chroma make you 'exempt' from winning but still accept your raffle donation, ja?

[ProjectCougar]

Just so you know I will not be pulling the name for this. I will have another NECO member (maybe even from a different chapter) pull the name out

[FastCougar]

Good point Nic ... James, don't give me any tickets for the raffle and treat my raffle ticket purchase strictly as a donation. Thanks!

[MercMobile]

<--- thinks trevor should donate his tickets to me, since my near minimum wage @ss can't afford it..

But seriously.. James are you doing drawing from a box with actual tickets, or some kind of lottery ball type contraption?

[ProjectCougar]

Trevor, Any suggestions on how to draw it?

[JScullin]

*COUGH*
Trevors tickets are payment for whoever gets the FastCougar site redsign picked.
*COUGH*


My aise is brokeded too.

[FastCougar]

James ... the YoDude raffle was done this way: After auction ends, go to paypal and download a spreadsheet of all activity between the dates the raffle began and ended. I deleted all non raffle activity from the spreadsheet and then deleted all fields except first name, last name and amount. I then duplicated people's entries for how many tickets they had. Example would be if you bought $30 worth, I would duplicate your name 5 times (plus the original entry makes 6) ... I would do this one by one and delete the amount afterwards. I would then double check against the "master" spreadsheet (save a copy before doing all this) and then print out the spreadsheet will all the duplicated names. These would be my "tickets". I then proceeded to cut them all apart and place in a big bowl and had my sister-in-law draw one winner and my brother-in-law draw the other (YoDude raffel was for 2 items). Same system was used for the MSDS Headers. This is very time consuming ... expect to spend about 2-3 hours preping for the drawing depending on how many people enter.

The TireRack.com drawing was done electronically this way: Same system as before except I used the date/time column and assigned sequental numbers (ticket number) based on first come basis. When all is said an done, I would have x-xxx tickets assigned to their rightfull owners. I then ran some ColdFusion script that would pick a random number from x-xxx and this was recorded in the DB. In the future, I hope to have the whole process automated so that I don't have to assign the numbers myself. This script by the way is a completely random number generator based on a range of values, you merely specify the start and end number and it chooses one for you. Chances of winning come down to complete luck :)

Hope this helps ;)

[monogodo]

<< I hope to have the whole process automated so that I don't have to assign the numbers myself. >>

In the cell for ticket number 1 (let's call it cell A1), put the number 1
In the cell for ticket number 2 (cell A2) enter the following =A1+1.
Copy this formula and paste it in cells A3 through the last ticket.
It will automatically generate sequential numbers (at least it will in Excel).

[FastCougar]

hehe ... you think soo small time ;)

I was thinking more along the lines of completely automated using PayPal's backend. It is possible, but a lot of work and many headaches on my part. The "system" would be set up on my DB end so that I could create a raffle using the Forum's backend admin console. Whenever I got a ticket sale, PayPal has a system where they will send an HTTP Form Request to a given address ... I could set up a ColdFusion template to take that Form Submission and process that info into my DB. Get the idea? It goes a lot deaper than simple spread scripting ... at least it could ;)

[ProjectCougar]

Well unless the support picks up, the concerns of picking a winner won't be too hard because we have about 19 names so far, none from today. I am sure with 16 days left, things will pick up, just stating the obvious.

Time for people to put their wallet where their mouth is when it comes to complaining about no aftermarket. - FastCougar

[Bryan1027]

i want to enter but i know i wont win bc all i would buy is one and then i would lose 5 bucks !:-( it would go towards his cougar and not mine? but i might just try my luck ?

[Magonoo]

Bryan1027- $5 isnt really that much, im sure you can afford it. Heck, if you win you get great tailights and help out the cougar aftermarket. Take it from me, I was rather hesitant to enter in the Y-pipe raffle because i thought there would be no way taht i could win, but one Y-pipe later i stuck my foot thouroghly into my mouth.

[ProjectCougar]

This money is not going towards my car... please this is going directly to pay for some parts we need to develop new parts.

[Grendel]

Fern is right!!!

Beautiful taillights and also knowing that you are helping to make more cool things available for all.

[COUGAR2000]

i'm in for two...

under Chanel Nguyen (2) by mistake

Jimmii

p.s she is my wife

[EricF]

If I were to enter and win... could I get the euro 99 headlights instead?......

[Iceotron]

Well with what James is trying to do I antied up. I really don't like the tail-lights but I will always support the cougar. Whats the count up to James? And those who haven't antied up yet, just remember how hard it's been to get mods and get them cheap.....keep the raffle alive.

[Upper90]

Sent my payment for 1 entry lastnight.

[Lepak91]

Could not resist and bought 2 tickets.

[Terps]

I'm in for 4 myself.

[ProjectCougar]

I am updating the entries now.... thanks for the support

[Bobnoxious]

Put me down for 2 just bought!

[ProjectCougar]

NECO Members who haven't participated.... we could really use your help. Unlike previous raffles this product wasn't donated

The response of this raffle has been great. The design team is currently working on the manifolds to see what can be done to acheive more power. So far things are going good.

[tad]

i just bought 6 cuz no one else had bought that many yet
hehe

[ProjectCougar]

Ends on Saturday... Thanks to all of those who have supported it...

[ProjectCougar]

69 Entries with 3 days to go....

[MercMobile]

And James.. since we talked about this the night you decided it.. and I said you would get 70 tickets.. check your mail.. I am #70. :)

[Bobnoxious]

70 would be $350, why the weird dollar amount collected. Did someone mail in pennies?

[MercMobile]

James, Monogodo and I tested this out the night he set it up.. for some reason everytime the amount was changed by multiples of 2 it would add a penny.. So if you bought 10.. it would be 50.05, 6 would be 30.03

[ProjectCougar]

No actually the wierd amount is because paypal takes 2.5% out plus 30 cents...

Thanks

[ProjectCougar]

$378.84 Total Collected

[Iceotron]

And the winner is???

[Crispy]

Mercmobile!!!


Congrats Steve!

[yssupkat]

he was so excited! when he got to the meet, mine were already installed. i knew he was the winner so i asked him if he liked mine. then i explained to him why i had asked him to look at mine! i got called sneaky but it wa s well worth it!

[MercMobile]

Thanks guys! :)