I was a complete idiot and I forgot to hold the drawing yesterday...I am so sorry to everyone who entered. BTC0.15 has been sent to n00ber, the winner of the paid raffle, and once einacio replies with his/her address, I will send BTC0.21 to them, I am very sorry about this
I hope that the community will forgive me for this

I am so sorry, I completely forgot to hold the drawing yesterday, I was out. I am making the prize BTC0.21 because of it

I am now glad to announce the winner. Congratulations to einacio, you win BTC0.21, please post your address and I will send you your winnings

Once again, I am very sorry for being late with this

I am so, so sorry, I forgot to hold the drawing yesterday, that was very stupid of me. The final prize was BTC0.14 except I added 0.01 for being late.

Congrats to n00ber, you win BTC0.15!!! Please conform when you receive your riches

Thanks to everyone who entered and I sincerely apologize for my lateness

Less than 24 hrs left? Anyone else in?

Glad you chose to buy some. The total prize amount is now BTC0.11 (BTC0.035 total received) with 8 tickets sold
Thanks!

Oops... I was gonna do it on Friday but then before posting I changed my mind and I guess I only changed the day. Sorry about that, all fixed now, it will be held on Saturday, June 1st

I'm sorry, the free ticket was only to the first to respond, otherwise it costs BTC0.005. Did you send a transaction and not have it confirm yet? If so, what was your transaction ID?
I do have you entered into the free raffle, though

Yes, I understand

Great, that brings the total prize up to BTC0.12 (received 0.025 total) with 6 tickets sold.
EDIT: Oops, I did my math wrong before, now its at BTC0.095 with 6 tickets sold

Great, thanks for trusting me not to run away

Sure, you're entered in my spreadsheet. This brings the prize to 0.0575 with one ticket 'sold'

Since there hasn't been a single response, I'll give one free ticket to the next person to respond

---Ticket price: BTC0.005---Current prize: BTC0.11---Tickets sold: 8---


Hello,
Since my free raffle (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=219632.0) has started to gain some traction, I have decided to redo my 150% payout raffle, hopefully some people will actually enter this time.

I would like to gain trust before trading with other users for obvious reasons, so I am holding a Bitcoin raffle where I will pay out 50% more than the total amount from bidders, plus a 0.05 btc starting prize. I simply ask that the winner leave a good review on the trust thing below my username.
For example, if 10 people buy a raffle ticket (0.005 btc), I will send 0.075 to the winner. I am, however, going to limit my contribution to 0.2 btc plus the 0.05 to start. If I sell less than 5 tickets, I will send every entrant twice what they sent.

To enter, send at least 0.005 btc to 124YPLs72BiMgHkBqkL3G3Ag3TCWvWmgss (an easywallet just for this raffle) and post your address so that I can prove that the winnings went out to an actual person in the thread and I know who to congratulate. If you send more, you will be buying multiple raffle tickets.

The drawing will be held at 5pm EST (9:00 UTC) on Saturday, June 1st. I will assign each ticket a number and then use a random number generator to find out who is the winner


I will try to update this thread with the current prize amount and the number of tickets sold and to answer any questions.
Thanks

Sorry your raffle didn't go that well, I would have entered had I been at my computer before it ended. You used a pretty interesting method of determining the winner

Just decided to make it so you don't need the address unless you win, you're entered

It's to build trust, so I can trade in the marketplace section and the many google-doc exchanges

My last post (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=218165.msg2292896#msg2292896) to build trust seems to have sort of back-fired, with being called a scammer without evidence, so this time I'm having a free raffle instead of my last one which had 0.0005BTC tickets and above-100% payout.

To enter, just post your address below and I will use a random number generator to find out who is the winner. I'll announce the winner at 5pm EST on Saturday, June 1st.

If aren't too cynical and you want to donate to increase the pot, you can use the address 13UPQMouHPJbpAc7GURjfzyaChJj5ZeSP1 (I'll try to match all reasonably-sized donations, not that I think I'll get any)

EDIT: I think I'll change it a bit, if you don't want to post your address, just reply and say you want to enter, then I'll announce the winner and get the address from him/her afterwards

EDIT 2: I've reopened my paid raffle at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=219729

EDIT 3: The raffle it closed (a bit late). Congrats to enacio, please post your address
Thanks

That seems to me a much more obvious scam, I'm only contributing 0.20BTC at most, not claiming to double what anyone sends me (unless the total amount of tickets sold is under 5, 0.02BTC or about 2 dollars fifty)  This would be a pretty elaborate scam for $2.50

Its hard to build reputation when nobody trusts you enough to let you prove that you're trustworthy
Its sort of a never ending circle
I don't know riaro but you probably don't believe me, can you think of a way for me to prove it?

Send 0.005 btc to 13UPQMouHPJbpAc7GURjfzyaChJj5ZeSP1 (or more for multiple tickets) and then post your address in this thread and I can confirm on the blockchain