Raffling off tickets..how much?

Oh no, look out, I am asking my first ?. lol

My father is a member to the masons. The masons are having a spaghetti dinner come June. They are raffling off baskets of sorts. I ask my father if I could raffle off a couple of my photos. He said sure. He has frames he is letting me use. (4x6 mat, with 5x7 frame) So the picture will be 4x6, it is small, but I don't want to spend the money on frames and not get much back from it. As, I agreed with my father the % of the total tickets sold will be 50/50.

So, it is up to me on how much I want the raffling tickets to sell for. I'm not sure. 50 cents? $1?

I've never done this before. Never been involved in raffling anything off.

In the Uk when we do this sort of thing tickets are usually around the £1.00 area, dont know what that equates too in dollars, on occasions I have seen them as high as £5.00 but the prize is usually a high value one, its a difficult one Crystal cos you dont want to go to high and you dont want to undersell yourself, a dollar sounds ok to me, hope this helps in some small way.

That's exactly it, I don't want to under sell myself, seeing that my framed 8x10s are selling for $50, but I don't want to go to high either. Too high, no one will even bother.

crystal wrote: That's exactly it, I don't want to under sell myself, seeing that my framed 8x10s are selling for $50, but I don't want to go to high either. Too high, no one will even bother.

your work is good there will be plenty of interest so I am sure plenty of people will buy, pick your figure and go for it.

I'd say $1 each sounds about right... and consider a 6 for $5 deal too - people tend to buy bigger if they think they're getting a bonus...
$5 for a nice piece of shelf or wall art is a bargain!

DestinDave wrote: I'd say $1 each sounds about right... and consider a 6 for $5 deal too - people tend to buy bigger if they think they're getting a bonus...
$5 for a nice piece of shelf or wall art is a bargain!

Is this fund raising for the org?

DestinDave wrote: I'd say $1 each sounds about right... and consider a 6 for $5 deal too - people tend to buy bigger if they think they're getting a bonus...
$5 for a nice piece of shelf or wall art is a bargain!

This sounds like a very good idea. How many are you planning on selling? That is what will decide on the price.

Baydream wrote:

DestinDave wrote: I'd say $1 each sounds about right... and consider a 6 for $5 deal too - people tend to buy bigger if they think they're getting a bonus...
$5 for a nice piece of shelf or wall art is a bargain!

Is this fund raising for the org?

Yes, it's for the mason lodge.

Joves wrote:

DestinDave wrote: I'd say $1 each sounds about right... and consider a 6 for $5 deal too - people tend to buy bigger if they think they're getting a bonus...
$5 for a nice piece of shelf or wall art is a bargain!

This sounds like a very good idea. How many are you planning on selling? That is what will decide on the price.

5 framed photos.

How many tickets are you having printed or sold? Also you might consider doing it even if you dont get your usual price, just for the exposure and the potential of getting new customers. You can set a value and then if it doesnt pay that the rest is considered a donation and therefore a tax write off.

Joves wrote: How many tickets are you having printed or sold? Also you might consider doing it even if you dont get your usual price, just for the exposure and the potential of getting new customers. You can set a value and then if it doesnt pay that the rest is considered a donation and therefore a tax write off.

Well I originally brought it up to my father on the sole purpose to get the exposure. Then I thought about the cost of the frames (at the time I was going to print 8x10), but my father mention he had the 4x6 frames. So all I have to worry about it ink/paper, which I already have since I will be printing the photos.

I have no idea how many tickets I will be having. I didn't think about that. I figure the tickets they are using to raffle off a basket of cheer, and another basket, I could use those raffle tickets. I have no idea how many people are showing up at this dinner.