If the PTA was donated a higher end Chromebook, would you buy a raffle ticket for it?

[Ionut]

Chromebook is around £600, an Acer Chromebook Spin. So, flipping, touch screen and stylus etc. it was donated, so zero cost to a primary school PTA.

Would you want to win this, and how much would you think tickets should be? We're thinking £5? Is that too much?

School roll is 360

We're just wondering if it's worth pursuing.

Are you being gifted it to raffle or buying?
I wouldn't personally pay 5 pounds for one ticket. 5 pounds for a row I would.

Sorry just saw it is donated. In that case all entries are profit so I wouldn't charge a fiver a ticket.

Completely depends on the demographic, surely? The school I used to work at would have struggled with £2 tickets, my current school would probably manage £5-£10. My nieces’ school would probably get £20 with parents viewing it as a donation with a chance of a laptop, rather than entering specifically to win the laptop.

Which is relatively illogical, but I agree seems to be psychologically true based on my experience of selling PTA raffle tickets over the years!

@QueenOfWeeds Assuming we get the ticket prices correct, would you enter? Is it an "enticing" prize.

I probably wouldn’t as don’t really need one. I’d phone around other businesses for prizes and have that as the main prize in a raffle. When we’ve done this we’ve been donated loads of freebies - vouchers for local pubs, cinemas, ten pin bowling etc. All children are given a book of 5 raffle tickets to sell at £1 each/ £5 per pack. Most packs get sold with some requesting extras

Completely depends on the demographic, surely?

This ^^. It's one of those how long is a piece of string questions that unfortunately none of us can answer.

At some of the schools I've worked at you'd be lucky to get even half the parents buying a ticket at £5.

To answer your question though no I probably wouldn't buy a ticket.

PTA committee here. We do £5 for a row of six tickets or £1 a ticket standard for all raffles. Gives everyone a chance to participate. I think pricing at £5 per ticket would naturally exclude some.

Nice prize but £5 much too much, £1 better IMO

@Ionut I would, but we are in the fortunate position of being able to donate £5-10 without too much hardship.

If finances were different, it would have to be a prize I really wanted/needed. And then I wouldn’t be sure because the chances of winning are so low. I would never enter a raffle purely because of one of the prizes, but I would enter to support the charity if it was one I wanted to support.

Fair enough

I think the £1 per ticket or 6 for £5, that kind of thing would work really well, thanks!

It's a decent prize although not something I actually need; would pay £1 assuming I believed the PTA would make good use of money raised.

Unless you are putting a limit of the number of tickets you are selling, I would go for £1 ticket - in my experience people will still spend £5 or £10 if they want to/can afford it, and the people who can afford less can still take part.

I’d check how much you’d get for it on ebay, you may find that you get more that way? I’m an ex co-chair of private school PTA and found only about 30% of parents bought raffle tickets, but they bought in multiples, tickets were always £1.

Yes and I would probably pay £5 for a ticket, I’d assume other prizes available as well though

The prize it’self wouldn’t entice me but then raffle prizes rarely do.

What would be a prize that would entice you?

We might be able to swing an iPad for example instead.

I wouldn't because in my experience, one of the PTA or their friends/ family always win this sort of prize.

Well, we'd just hold it as a bog standard raffle, mixing up the tickets in a bucket type thing and public draw.

I can't get worked up about who wins if it's done like this, We have 12 people on the PTA, so it's likely between them there's 50-70+ friends in the school community, out of maybe 200 people entering? it isn't beyond the realms of possibilities that one of them might win?

Quite possibly.
Because they may well buy the majority of the tickets.

I would prefer an iPad to a Chromebook.

Agree with this.

Even valuable prizes tend to be unattractive to me because, if I want a new laptop, I will want to choose it (and prefer a different operating system), if I want a spa day I'll want to choose where and what, if I want a bottle of wine it's unlikely I'll find the one on offer really meets my preferences, etc. Basically I'm fussy, can afford to buy the things I like and don't get a thrill out of gambling.

I always buy school raffle tickets, though, as I see it as a donation.

Probably because the members of the PTA and their friends/family buy the majority of tickets.

Ive normally bought raffle tickets because I was donating to the cause, or supporting whoever was selling the tickets. I don't think I've ever entered a raffle specifically because I was after a particular prize.