Originally Posted by
Wunder-Mar
There are already 145 responses to this - you can always tell a HOT topic!!! - but I need to share this STRONG RECOMMENDATION for quilt raffles or drawings: DRAW THREE TICKETS. When the quilt is delivered to the 1st winner, let them know that if for any reason the quilt they won "doesn't work out" to please advise the guild (give them a business card with the contact information of at least 3 members), who will be happy to pick up the quilt and pass it on to the second name drawn.
Our guild ran into this problem a few years back and there were a LOT of hurt feelings when it was sold. We developed this drawing method (kind of ike the 1st Runner-Up of Miss America) a few years back and we've actually had to fall back on it twice since then. The fact that the quilt was given back to the guild and passed onto another githful winner calmed a lot of turmoil before it got chance to crank up.
Why were there hurt feelings? Do people in the guild regularly "check on" what happens to quilts people win/buy?
Were people jealous that someone made money off of it?
Did the guild reach the goal that they had wanted with the original raffle?