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strawbary
Title: Syracuse CR
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Date Posted:
11/20/07 9:30am
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RE: Boston Super MegaFest on Nov. 17 & 18 (MIS Fan Force raising money for charity)
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hmm, I thought you derailed the thread in the first place, however, I do agree let boston FF have their limelight on their efforts rather than discuss 501sts events.
in fact the FF forums really arent the place for 501st discussions anyhow.
So back on topic: - Boston have you presented the money to the charity yet? It would be great to have a pic of that so we can highlight it. that is a major charity event IMO. I dont know too many FF chapters who can raise that type opf money. Judos again to you guys!!! Whoot!
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RogueSquadronWingnut
Title: CR, The Rebellion, Rochester, NY
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Date Posted:
11/20/07 10:13am
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RE: Boston Super MegaFest on Nov. 17 & 18 (MIS Fan Force raising money for charity)
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...thats bait...and thats too easy....
I'll just apologize for the Mass Group since others in here would want to try and turn this into another FF vs 501st event.
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BobaChris12
Title: NE RSA
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Date Posted:
11/20/07 10:20am
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RE: Boston Super MegaFest on Nov. 17 & 18 (MIS Fan Force raising money for charity)
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RogueSquadronWingnut
Title: CR, The Rebellion, Rochester, NY
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RE: Boston Super MegaFest on Nov. 17 & 18 (MIS Fan Force raising money for charity)
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You know...I keep getting yelled at for "reading way too much" into other peoples comments but now I'm seeing you do the same thing. Maybe ya need a banhammer for a few days to cool off eh?
Nice post edit Chris.
Nothing to hide eh?
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strawbary
Title: Syracuse CR
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Date Posted:
11/20/07 10:35am
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RE: Boston Super MegaFest on Nov. 17 & 18 (MIS Fan Force raising money for charity)
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I have asked already in this thread to get back on topic. this is a final warning. anyone bringing this thread off topic again will recieve a 24 hr time out.
this isnt fair to Boston. They deserve to be in the Limelight for their hard efforts. Everyone comments derailing this thread belittles that.
enough already everyone.
again I will repeat what I said before Kudos to The Boston FF. they have done an awesome job! Send pics of the even we will try to get them highlighted for you!
 
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JediXXL
Title: North Ridge Diplomat
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11/20/07 11:19am
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Good job Boston FanForce!
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Fluke_Groundrunner
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11/20/07 12:36pm
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I'm curious, what types of things did FF do to raise so much money?
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Wildstar02301
Title: Public Relations Officer, Mass. Imperial Syndicate
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I'll let DarthWormie or McLovin, our co-CRs, detail what we did this year, but our main thing has always been raffles of baskets of various collectable items, which have ranged from comic books to Burger King toys to game miniatures in the past. The items in the baskets are donated by our FF membership, and we raffle off one basket per day for the 2 days of the event. I believe this year we had at least one large item (a Lego Tantive IV, which was donated by Darth Moby, Rhode Island's CR) that we raffled off separately.
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DarthWormie
Title: Former CR, Massachusetts Imperial Syndicate
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11/21/07 9:13am
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Thanks for the kudos everyone.
I do have a bunch of pics from the event. As soon as I can weed through them and post the best of the bunch I will. There won't be any kind of formal check presentation. I'll just be mailing it out along with a letter and maybe a pic of the gang at the table.
In the past we've had a basket full of SW goodies and a bonus raffle on each day of the con. This year we received so many high-end donations from friends, vendors and even fellow fan groups (the local chapter of the Rebel Legion even donated something to our cause this year) that we had multiple auctions going on all weekend. For the high-end stuff (a Yoda on Kybuck Maquette, Tantive IV Lego set and Koto Slave Leia) we had limited ticket raffles. On the Maquette and Koto, we limited the tickets to only 25 at $5 a piece and for the Legos we limited the tickets to 50. All 3 raffles sold out.
We also offered incentives to people to buy multiple tickets for our gift baskets. Tickets were $1.00 each, but if you bought 5, you got a 6th free AND you got to select a free movie poster from the stock we had on hand.
The problem now is, how to we follow this up next year. 
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strawbary
Title: Syracuse CR
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Date Posted:
11/21/07 9:27am
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RE: Boston Super MegaFest on Nov. 17 & 18 (MIS Fan Force raising money for charity)
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thats a great idea getting donations from vendors.  Your groups sounds very organised and seems like it took great team offort to pull it off.
and yes topping it next year will be tough lol but there ya go, something to work on now .... 
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11/21/07 10:37am
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Thanks for the raffle tips. We do close to the same thing at Pittsburgh Comicon, but have not gotten near $1000 in total donations. Congrats on such a great success with it.
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DarthWormie
Title: Former CR, Massachusetts Imperial Syndicate
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11/21/07 12:06pm
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Definitely hit up the vendors at the show for donations. Tell them that you'll thank them over the PA when you do the drawing (that's how we did it). Besides, what's the worst thing they can do, say no?
Oh yeah, make sure you ask them when there is quite a few people at their table. They'll be less likely to say no and alienate customers.
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12/1/07 5:22pm
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Another hint for selling raffle tickets is walking around the con with the items for raffle help to get the numbers up.
We did this with the Tantive IV lego..it was getting heavy after awhile, but we sold all the tickets.
Several people from the 501st and Rebel Legion bought many raffle tickets and I would like to thank both of those groups for there help and there donations.
Chris
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