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Draw Order
Submitted by Forum_Admin on 12 July, 2007 - 16:36.
My church had a raffle draw last week. some people are complaining as for some reason the draw was done backwards. so the first ticket out got the smaller prize, and the last out go the biggest prize. some comments inlude the fact that their name was pulled first so in fact they werent in it for the main prize. most people enter for the chance to win the main prize is this just ethically wrong or is it illegal??
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RE: Draw Order
Hi, Gemma
James is right, that any action would be foolish and likely to be treated as such.
The serious point is for the Lottery Organisers, who will now have learned the hard way that you have to tell people in advance if you want to vary normal procedures in these matters.
If the prize was (or might be seen to be) significant, then the order is important TO THE PEOPLE WHO BOUGHT THE TICKETS. Organisers often feel it might be fun to change the routine a bit, but our punters often don't share these feelings!
Cheers
Gerry
RE: Draw Order
Neither, as far as I can see. If they advertised the lottery as being in one order, and it was drawn in another, there might be something to scrape a civil claim together. But nothing that wouldn't be laughed out of court, I'd have thought. They won a prize - if the draw was by hand, then they'd have no great advantage if the order was reversed. So anyone fondly imagining that theirs would have been the first ticket out, regardless of all the other circumstances, is probably fooling themselves.