winner has been decided see other thread for results

[cablepair]

http://www.coinraffle.com

Enter this raffle for a chance to win a NEW Saphire Radeon HD 7970. 1 Bitcoin gets you a 1 in 300 chance of Winning and the best part is 20% of the proceeds go directly to the Bitcointalk.org forum to help fund development of new forum software.


Rules & Terms of This Raffle
Raffle Details:

    Raffle Prize : NEW Saphire Radeon HD 7970
    Raffle Start Date: 04/02/2012
    Raffle End Date: When the last ticket of 300 has been sold
    Raffle Ticket Price: Each ticket cost 1 Bitcoin
    Raffle Tickets can be purchased here
    Each Raffle Ticket can only be purchased once - after it has been purchased its corresponding Order Now button will be replaced with a red X.

 
Benefit Raffle Details:

    This Raffle is a partial Benefit Raffle with 20% of the proceeds (60 BTC) going directly to the forum at Bitcointalk.org to help fund the development of new forum software.

 
Choosing a Winner:

    Each raffle ticket has a unique number 7970001-7970300
    When all 300 Tickets have been sold we will make an announcement on our thread in the Bitcointalk.org forum as well as on our web site.
    After the announcement has been made we will use the next solved block to pick the winner using the Bitcoin Block Chain Raffle Picker (created by DeepCeleron) here: http://we.lovebitco.in/raffle.html
    The Bitcoin Block Chain Raffle Picker will use the block chain to pick a winner between 1-300
    The winner will be picked and announced the same day the raffle ends

Other Details:

    Prize will be shipped to the winner on the next business day via USPS priority mail or USPS priority mail international with a tracking number provided at that time to the winner and proof of the shipment provided to the community by request
    CoinRaffle.com and the 7970 Raffle are sponsored by BTCWebHost.com
    Owners/Employees of BTCWebHost.com or any of its sister Web Sites / Businesses are prohibited from entering the raffle.
    The 20% 60 BTC benefit will be paid directly to Thymos on behalf of the Bitcointalk forum on the day the raffle ends
    CoinRaffle.com seeks to provide a transparent raffle system and encourages feed back, development suggestions and is open to quality control checks by Bitcointalk.org staff members

http://www.coinraffle.com


EDIT: 05/07/2012

This is what I am willing to do. I am reluctant to change the terms of the raffle but on the other hand I am really busy with another project right now which is why I am not on the forum much lately so I will set a deadline.

I will give this a maximum of six more weeks.

If all the tickets do not sell by June 18th - I will use the first block solved after 12:01AM UTC on June 18th to Pick a Winner from tickets 1-300, if it picks a ticket number that is not sold we will go to the second solved block after 12:01 on June 18th and continue on in that fashion until the raffle ticket number picker picks a number of a ticket that has been sold, as soon as a winner is picked I will ship the prize to the winner that same day.

If the Tickets sell out before June 18th we will pick the winner as described in the beginning

and Either way no matter how many tickets I sell I will still donate 60 BTC to the Forum.

I am sorry this was not as much of a success as I thought it would of been, I will continue to advertise the best I can and I welcome you to do the same and send me any suggestions you might have on how we can sell more tickets.

Thanks for participating, and thanks to those who have showed patience and composure.

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[jamesg]

You might want to make your order buttons (http://www.coinraffle.com/index.php/buy-a-ticket) go over to bit-pay.

[cablepair]

You might want to make your order buttons (http://www.coinraffle.com/index.php/buy-a-ticket) go over to bit-pay.

thanks for pointing that out, they were working must be a closing </a> missing some place one sec

[DeaDTerra]

When I try to purchase a ticket, I just get redirected back to the page of where I can chose my ticket. is it just me or?
//DeaDTerra

[jamesg]

You might want to make your order buttons (http://www.coinraffle.com/index.php/buy-a-ticket) go over to bit-pay.

thanks for pointing that out, they were working must be a closing </a> missing some place one sec

Looks like they are wrapped in <form> without an action.

[cablepair]

http://www.coinraffle.com/index.php/buy-a-ticket
works now

thanks for pointing this out to me so quick, something must of happened when I was polishing the site up a little bit right before the launch

have to go finish straightening things up but you can buy tickets here http://www.coinraffle.com/index.php/buy-a-ticket

or by Clicking By A Ticket from the menu

thanks!

[DeaDTerra]

http://www.coinraffle.com/index.php/buy-a-ticket
works now

thanks for pointing this out to me so quick, something must of happened when I was polishing the site up a little bit right before the launch

have to go finish straightening things up but you can buy tickets here http://www.coinraffle.com/index.php/buy-a-ticket

or by Clicking By A Ticket from the menu

thanks!

No problems, I will purchase a ticket
//DeaDTerra

[rjk]

http://www.coinraffle.com/index.php/buy-a-ticket
works now

thanks for pointing this out to me so quick, something must of happened when I was polishing the site up a little bit right before the launch

have to go finish straightening things up but you can buy tickets here http://www.coinraffle.com/index.php/buy-a-ticket

or by Clicking By A Ticket from the menu

thanks!

Did you mean to have it in a frame? (It wasn't before)
In a frame, I can't see the Bit-pay SSL stuff to be sure that it it secure. Of course, I can load the page outside of the frame, and that shows that all is well.

[cablepair]

http://www.coinraffle.com/index.php/buy-a-ticket
works now

thanks for pointing this out to me so quick, something must of happened when I was polishing the site up a little bit right before the launch

have to go finish straightening things up but you can buy tickets here http://www.coinraffle.com/index.php/buy-a-ticket

or by Clicking By A Ticket from the menu

thanks!

Did you mean to have it in a frame? (It wasn't before)
In a frame, I can't see the Bit-pay SSL stuff to be sure that it it secure. Of course, I can load the page outside of the frame, and that shows that all is well.

this was just a temporary fix so tickets can be ordered - trying to figure out why the form code was being stripped from that page now

[rjk]

Also, I bought ticket #42, but it doesn't show as an X and allows others to enter on the same ticket number.

[Littleshop]

The site also (still) fails for me.  I am running noscript though.

[cablepair]

The site also (still) fails for me.  I am running noscript though.

reload the site, it appears to be working for everyone else. If you are blocking iframe you wont be able to buy tickets at the moment but the rest of the site is pretty standard stuff and should not be blocked.

[cablepair]

http://www.coinraffle.com

The site should be working fine for everyone now

To view the ticket purchase page outside of the iframe simply visit

http://www.coinraffle.com/buyaticket.html


Good Luck !

[tarrant_01]

235 has a /b> on it.

[Matthew N. Wright]

I'm happy to see someone making raffles automated!

[rjk]

I'm happy to see someone making raffles automated!

Yay, Matthew is out of b& jail! The forums are whole again.

[tynt]

I think 300 bitcoins for 100bitcoin prize is too large cut.

[World]

nice idea website looks great

[jamesg]

I think 300 bitcoins for 100bitcoin prize is too large cut.

Let's do some math.

300 BTC - 20% donation (60 BTC) - cost of prize (112 BTC) == 128 BTC profit (42%)

This does not include his time to make the site, setup bit-pay, deal with this thread, pick a winner, etc. So let's say that's 30 hours.

128BTC / 30 hours of work == 4.267 BTC per hour (~$20 / hr)

If you think it is wrong for someone to make $20/hr in BTC to let forum members have a fun and a chance of winning a pretty cool prize, maybe you should try to do better while taking a smaller cut.

[cablepair]

I think 300 bitcoins for 100bitcoin prize is too large cut.

Let's do some math.

300 BTC - 20% donation (60 BTC) - cost of prize (112 BTC) == 128 BTC profit (42%)

This does not include his time to make the site, setup bit-pay, deal with this thread, pick a winner, etc. So let's say that's 30 hours.

128BTC / 30 hours of work == 4.267 BTC per hour (~$20 / hr)

If you think it is wrong for someone to make $20/hr in BTC to let forum members have a fun and a chance of winning a pretty cool prize, maybe you should try to do better while taking a smaller cut.

Thank you James

and thank you everyone for being patient for these little bugs that had to be worked out, I kind of rushed this site today because I told Theymos I would be ready to launch on Saturday so he could start advertising it and was already two days behind.

Right now I think everything is working well the way it is supposed to, I will be refining things a little bit as we go and overall I think its going to be a fun raffle. 1 in 300 Chance are really pretty decent odds to win a really nice GPU while contributing to the forum at the same time!

Thanks to everyone who is participating and who has helped me so far

and thank you Matt for giving me the idea if you ever want to team up on a raffle let me know!

I would like to continue to do Bitcoin Benefit Raffles on CoinRaffle.com and this 7970 raffle is really my way of getting it all started I would love to do benefit raffles for bitcoin accepting groups and organizations to help them with fund raising.

-Tom