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I'm in... nice historical tribute for Ford fans!
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Yeah, sadly real life has made me wary of direct links or even fancy websites from time to time. I went to the purported site they claim to represent, checked it out. They had all the required rules in place (like Michigan's law that requires a free method of entry, which I did and it worked) and it seemed legit to me. Of course I got taken in by Ford's reservation website and all the fancy promises they made back in the day as well. So there is that.Always Leary of this type of post. Went to the website for the organization he claims to represent. There is not a single mention of any charitable raffles. I would think they would be promoting their own raffle.
This to me is a serious red flag. I will not be participating.
Charitable website.
It's always nice when someone you are at least partially familiar with wins. But my experiences so far it's always the guy that happened upon the announcement from some place other than the forums and only enters once that wins instead of the guys that enter every day (for those other sweepstakes that are only 1 entry per day)In!!! Just hope somebody up in here wins!!!
Just fyi I tried the link for the free entry, put in my email, and... didn't receive anything. That was about 12 hours ago.@Internationalraptor, @Drex, @DaveInSA -
I appreciate the candor and the effort to protect the community, but I hope to ease some of your concerns. It's clear I should have done a better job of providing validation for this fundraiser and will keep that in mind going forward. Your feedback is immensely helpful and I really do appreciate you sharing so I can communicate this better in the future.
Here are some quick updates and additional information. I want to be as transparent as possible to continue earning this community's trust, so I apologize if this is TMI.
I really want to apologize to those that are concerned about this sweepstakes. If there's anything additional I can do to help ease concerns, please call them out here or message me directly.
- I updated the website's announcement banner to indicate that the sweepstakes is currently under way: https://www.henryfordfairlane.org/.
- This was poor planning on my part. My thought was that I would run early bird specials the first two weeks of the fundraiser and then officially announce it on the website immediately after. Hindsight is 20-20 and I should have had a News post and banner message from day 1.
- While it doesn't help now, I plan to officially announce the sweepstakes on our website and Facebook this Thursday, June 16. Again, this was dumb of me not to prepare earlier, but I'll do better in the future.
- Asking not to enter immediately after I introduced myself - this was because I hadn't prepared a promotion for the community yet. I didn't want a bunch of people buying into the sweepstakes then getting frustrated that they didn't get the bonus entries.
- Entering for free - since this is a sweepstakes, people can enter for free once per day. This is what allows us to differentiate the sweepstakes from a raffle, which would be considered gambling.
- Prior authorization - even before sharing on communities like this (Bronco Raptor Forums, Bronco Nation in the near future, etc.) I reach out to the owners/moderators to first request permission. This is done out of respect to the community while also allowing the owners/moderators to verify the authenticity with me via email/phone/etc.
- We're not marketing professionals - I apologize that my message created concern. I added that to stress that we're legitimately not marketing professionals and have room to learn/improve. Four of our nine full-time team members are working on this fundraiser: our President, Director of Operations, our Construction Project Manager, and myself, the Director of Finance and Administration. We work together to support these fundraisers, even if we don't have the designated responsibility to do so. Last year, the team didn't think to reach out to the Bronco community via forums which is why it didn't happen in the past. Since I've an avid forum user, elsewhere, I saw the value in sharing this opportunity with this community.
- Being new to it - this was in reference to me being newer to the team and having never assisted with a sweepstakes before. Again, poor wording on my part. As a Director with the team, I have access to financial and campaign information from prior years.
- My own personal concerns - I'm also an avid skeptic when it comes to sweepstakes and raffles like these. That's why I tried to make this a little more personal (e.g. sharing my experience, my personal information, and even personal photos). I asked myself what I'd like to see and didn't think what others would want to see.
- Do not hesitate to email me directly, [email protected], if you have any questions. If it helps, here's my LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/codytousignant/.
As a reminder to everyone in this community, this 40% promo expires tonight, midnight EST. You're more than welcome to buy after that, but the general public launch won't be getting a bonus 40%. We'll likely offer a general public early bird at 20-25% bonus entries, then transition to no bonuses for a while.
https://www.tapkat.org/fair-lane-home-of-clara-and-henry-ford/v5R3xE?promo=BRONCO6GEARLY
Thank you again to everyone here!
It usually doesn't come in until after midnight in my experience, I've received a few of the free entry tickets already since finding the raffle and this one always comes in around midnight, I've seen others come in at 1-5am also in the pastJust fyi I tried the link for the free entry, put in my email, and... didn't receive anything. That was about 12 hours ago.
Just fyi I tried the link for the free entry, put in my email, and... didn't receive anything. That was about 12 hours ago.
I'll chat with TapKat tomorrow morning to figure out how they push the free entry emails. While testing their service, I signed up for a bunch of free entries with other sweepstakes and I didn't receive an email until 12:00 AM EST. My guess is that their system sends them out once per day, around midnight EST, but I'll double-check with them tomorrow.It usually doesn't come in until after midnight in my experience, I've received a few of the free entry tickets already since finding the raffle and this one always comes in around midnight, I've seen others come in at 1-5am also in the past
My free entry showed up at 6 am the following day.Just fyi I tried the link for the free entry, put in my email, and... didn't receive anything. That was about 12 hours ago.
Same here, free one showed up the next day.My free entry showed up at 6 am the following day.
Glad to hear you finally received the free entry!Mine finally showed up at 11pm last night.
The tickets from donating were instant.