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Raffle build

One thing we've talked about before was doing a fundraiser to build a guitar for someone who could really use it.

*Not me.
 
Don't give up on my account. I didn't see that much opposition to the idea. I've just made more noise than most, so it seems like there's less support for the idea than there may be.
 
There's no shortage of charities to give to....anywhere.  There is a shortage of Warmoth raffles.  Let's just do a raffle. There's no need to trick it up. 

BTW, I think raffle is the magic word for making this a legal issue.  =CB= remembers what to call it.
 
Cagey said:
Problem with the charity idea is say we raise $1,500 and build a $1,500 guitar. What's it going to bring on ebay? $900? $1,000? Plus, somebody's gotta build it for nothing. May as well just put out a call for donations to a particular charity. They'd get more money that way, and be able to pay more salaries since that's what most of them do with the money. Only a fraction goes to whatever their pet cause is. Then, who decides which charity is deserving of our support? No matter who you pick, somebody's not going to like it. If we vote on which charity should get blessed, then those who don't agree simply won't contribute. You could pick the charity after the money is collected, but the confusion about where the money's going will also put a major damper on contributions.

Anybody can donate to the charity of their choice anytime they wish. I don't see how we can leverage the community here to improve on that situation. For my part, charity begins at home. I have family and friends who are always in need of something, so when I have disposable income, that's where it goes.
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I agree with most of these points. In short: It's all well and good to want to support charity, but there's really no logical reason to go about it through a guitar build.
 
I'm also throwing in my vote that i would probably spend $50 twice a year if i could afford it.
I don't think people are going to be any less interested in potentially winning a guitar if it was twice a year than they would be if it was only once a year.
 
dNA said:
I'm also throwing in my vote that i would probably spend $50 twice a year if i could afford it.
I don't think people are going to be any less interested in potentially winning a guitar if it was twice a year than they would be if it was only once a year.
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Exactly  :icon_thumright:
 
Super Turbo Deluxe Custom said:
There's no shortage of charities to give to....anywhere.  There is a shortage of Warmoth raffles.  Let's just do a raffle. There's no need to trick it up. 

BTW, I think raffle is the magic word for making this a legal issue.  =CB= remembers what to call it.
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That would be "drawing"

Let's hold a drawing!
 
I just bought a case of Huggies at Costco yesterday, I should be good through the weekend. 

On top of this awesome raffle build, I might be picking up a sweet 5 string project on the cheap that's pretty freaking cool.  Checking it out tonight to see if it lives up to the hype.

-Mark
 
AprioriMark said:
Back on topic, Spyke just told me that it's being shipped today or tomorrow.  I just peed a little.

-Mark
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I hope you got a great deal on that UPS 26-day shipping special.

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knucklehead G said:
I hope you got a great deal on that UPS 26-day shipping special.
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No kidding.

<rant>
What is it with UPS and Puyallup? I can count on 7 to 9 days transit from there with UPS and I'm in a major metropolitan area. The last order I put in was for a bunch of little parts, so I decided to try regular old snail mail - the US Postal Service. Same price, which was weird, too, but the stuff showed up 3 days later. WTF?

For as much as Warmoth charges for their products, and for as anxious as their customers are to get their orders, you'd think Warmoth would use FedEx or another tier up in the UPS service hierarchy, even if they had to subsidize shipping by a couple/few bucks. Between my roommate and I, we probably spend $20K online annually - we rarely go to brick & mortars for anything - so UPS is stopping here just about every other day and nobody takes that kind of time to ship. Unless it straddles a weekend or is coming from another country, it's extremely rare for anything to take more than 3 days to get here no matter where it's coming from.

I'm not saying they need to ship Next Day Air, but when they're selling a little 2 to 7 pound hunk of wood for $500+, you'd think they could unclench the extra $2 to $4 it would cost to upgrade everybody to express shipping. I mean, I could drive from Michigan to Puyallup and back in the time it takes UPS to get a part here one-way. Amazon only wants you to spend $25 to get free shipping. Newegg gives you free shipping on nearly anything.  Stuff gets here in 3 days or less from as far away as California. McMaster-Carr and PartsExpress charge for shipping, but at least here if I order it by about 3-4pm, it's on my doorstep the next day. From another state! How are all these guys doing it?
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Cagey said:
What is it with UPS and Puyallup? I can count on 7 to 9 days transit from there with UPS and I'm in a major metropolitan area.
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I've never had any issues with UPS packages that have been shipped from Puyallup, and I've ordered more than a few in the past year or so.  They have consistently arrived within 2-3 days of receiving the "Quantum View" e-mail in my inbox.

Then again, I only live about 3 hours to the south.  :)

Cagey said:
Amazon only wants you to spend $25 to get free shipping. Newegg gives you free shipping on nearly anything.  Stuff gets here in 3 days or less from as far away as California. McMaster-Carr and PartsExpress charge for shipping, but at least here if I order it by about 3-4pm, it's on my doorstep the next day. From another state! How are all these guys doing it?
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These other companies have probably negotiated better rates with UPS due to high volume sales.  Amazon is a big player.  Warmoth is nowhere near that size.
 
Those companies certainly do a substantial volume, so I'm sure they're getting some special consideration on pricing. But, UPS isn't running separate delivery systems for them. It's the same system everybody else is using. That's what's so confusing to me. We're not getting any deals on shipping from Warmoth. If anything, we're paying a bit of a premium. So, what's the holdup? When the US Postal Service can outperform you, you know something is wrong.
 
UPS has had a reputation for the longest time... for obvious reasons.

Only reason they're still in business is because they have a captive audience (people still use 'em).
 
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