Kilt raffle!

**M. A. C. Newsome** · 5th August 10, 12:53 PM

Attention ladies and gentlemen! The first kilt raffle for the Scottish Tartans Museum was such a success we are doing it again. This time, the winner's kilt will be made by XMTS's own Barb Tewksbury (who really needs no introduction on this forum). It will be for an eight yard knife pleated kilt in any stock tartan of your choosing (stock tartan here means a tartan stock supported by Lochcarron, House of Edgar, D. C. Dalgliesh, or Strathmore).

As before, tickets are $5 per chance, and you can enter as many times as you wish.

We are going to draw the winning ticket on Dec. 23, the last day the museum is open before our Christmas holiday.

What a wonderful Christmas present to get a phone call telling you that you are the winner of a custom made, hand tailored Tewksbury masterpiece!

You can buy tickets at the museum or enter on line here:
http://raffle.scottishtartans.org

Thanks for your support of the museum!

**artificer** · 5th August 10, 01:02 PM

SWEET! 23DEC is my birthday, that's gotta be a good sign, right

I'm definitely in again for this raffle. Thanks to both Barb and you Matt.

**sydnie7** · 5th August 10, 01:07 PM

We're in.

It would be nice if there were a way to purchase multiple tickets in one transaction -- I didn't see any way to change quantity from 1.

But we're still in!

**Monkey@Arms** · 5th August 10, 01:44 PM

Okay, I'm in. May the best monkey win.

Best regards,

Jake

**damhnade** · 5th August 10, 01:59 PM

This would be a fabulous anniversary present for the husband!

**tulloch** · 5th August 10, 02:49 PM

I agree with Syd; last time I was able to buy three with one transaction. Well, I just have to come back often. Great way to support the museum which I still hope to see one day. Cudos to Barb for her part in this.

**M. A. C. Newsome** · 5th August 10, 07:58 PM

Originally Posted by tulloch

I agree with Syd; last time I was able to buy three with one transaction. Well, I just have to come back often. Great way to support the museum which I still hope to see one day. Cudos to Barb for her part in this.

Are you saying you can't change the quantity when you check out? You should be able to buy as many raffle tickets as you want.

If not, maybe I did something wrong with the code. I'll have to look at that....

**fluter** · 6th August 10, 04:05 PM

Originally Posted by M. A. C. Newsome

Are you saying you can't change the quantity when you check out? You should be able to buy as many raffle tickets as you want.

If not, maybe I did something wrong with the code. I'll have to look at that....

I think you've fixed it, but yes.

I added a ticket with two pairs of socks in the basket. Now I see quantity boxes for all items.

**Downunder Kilt** · 6th August 10, 04:13 PM

I ordered a multiple quantity yesterday and all was working at the checkout as it should. Thanks to Matt, the STM and Barb for the opportunity to own what would be a fantastic kilt.

**M. A. C. Newsome** · 12th August 10, 10:30 AM

An update on the kilt raffle....

I received an email from PayPal a few days ago informing us that we were in violation of PayPal's Fair Use Policy by selling raffle tickets via PayPal on our web site. They sent a copy of their Fair Use Policy to us, which when you boil down all the legalese, basically says you can't use PayPal to accept any type of payments for gambling, and raffles were considered gambling.

So I wrote back thanking them for contacting us (as opposed to just suspending our account) and reminding them that were were a non-profit organization and were operating our raffle in compliance with NC state laws regarding raffles and non-profits. I basically begged clemency to see if they would not be willing to make an exception in our case.

We do sell some raffle tickets at the museum, and quite a few when we set up at Highland Games, but the majority of the tickets sold are online, and PayPal is the easiest way for us to accept funds online, so I would hate to jeopardize that.

PayPal promised to review the situation. Well, I finally heard back from them this morning, and unfortunately, even though we are in full compliance with our state laws in this matter, we still are in violation of PayPal's own terms of service, which I fully understand. But, rather than suspend our account, which would be a Very Bad Thing for us, they are just giving us a gentle reminder and asking us to remove the PayPal link from our raffle sale page.

We definitely want to be in compliance with our PayPal terms of service agreement, so we have removed the option to pay via PayPal. Yet we still want to be able to accept raffle ticket payments online.

Our solution has been to create a form page where you can fill out your contact info and how many tickets you want to buy. We will then contact you (either by phone or email, by your preference) about payment information. We can accept credit card information by phone. Or you can mail a check. Or, if you do want to pay online, we can email you an invoice for a "donation" amount.

So in the end, you can still purchase your raffle tickets online. There is just one additional step we'll need to go through. I apologize for any inconvenience and I hope people still choose to support the museum through this raffle.

I want to make it perfectly clear that this does not affect in any way tickets purchased previously through PayPal.

In order to set up the submission form for the raffle tickets, I've moved the raffle page to a new address at:
http://raffle.scottishtartans.org

Thanks!