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The_Duckslayer

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I guess our plans were way off base. I spent 4 days at the international bike show (Thursday setting up) and met/saw a lot of interesting folks. Our group is raffleing off a Custom everything VStar 1300 to try to get Feed the Children trucks into the local area. Holy cow... getting folks to part with 10 bucks for such a worthy cause is REAL TOUGH! We only had 3000 tickets printed so it is not like one of those million tickets raffles! I hawked them all three days of the show and we still sold only about 700 tickets there. We were truly hoping to be sold out by the end of the show! I think that the painter that did the bike is going to have a booth at the Donny Smith show so I guess I will be hawking tickets there as well if he does. I will get some pictures of the bike and post them up here then when ya come to the show you can stop by and say hi! AND, you have plenty of time between now and then to save up 10 bucks!!! PLEASE! (Mar 27th and 28th at the river center.) Take care and N Joy the Hunt././Jimbo

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I dont think it was your raffle tickets that was the problem,I think the show ticket price of $15 was more the problem. I would think the way the economy is right now that the show producers would of considered this. I myself did not go just because of this.

How were the crowds there by the way?

I am thinking of going to the Donnie Smith show but will wait and see.I will look you up and GOOD LUCK selling the rest as it sounds worth while.

Keep the shiny side up and the rubber side down!

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I thought that attendance was way down this year. I was only there on Saturday last year as a spectator though but it did seem like there were a lot more people. A lot of the vendors were talking about it being way down as well. Sunday when the stunt bike was making his show you could have shot a cannon through the other part of the show and not hit anyone!

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I would guess that the reason people didn't buy many tickets is if you go to a number of shows/events like this you get hit up over and over and over for raffle tickets and many of them sell the non-winning tickets to telemarketers... at least that's why we don't sell many at the county fair. We were approached on the last day by 4 different people offering up to 200 dollars for the box of non-winning raffle tickets for the names, phone numbers and addresses on them.

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