Greedy

  My greedy little mind has been churning away, thinking of ways to profit from an opportunity.  I call it free enterprise, but in any case here is the situation.   Lets assume we could (there were 4 available) obtain a brand new unopened, ready to run Thomas G scale train set for $198.98.  Total cost.

• I doubt the Mall would let us do this, but visualize a self service raffle box where there is a stack of little envelopes for people to put in a dollar and write their phone number or email on the envelope and drop in a box.  5 weeks later we open it up and notify the winner to come pick up the prize!

• We probably could have a stack of free handouts, that would direct people to our web site were thay could click on a raffle page and buy tickets on-line.  That would require a lot of work by someone to manage the raffle and it would reduce our net proceeds considerably, but still make a profit.

• If we raffled it off at our Annual Meeting we could probably break even and still have some fun and add a little more excitement to the day!

Lots of possibilities,  Ahhhhh,  greed the  'good old'  motivator.