Sale Of Raffle Tickets.

[hellywelly4]

If I buy a strip of 5 raffle tickets I think I am buying 5 goes in the raffle. However, in the area where I live, people seldom separate the individual tickets and the whole strip is drawn out so there is only one chance to win,
Is this legal? Surely they should just sell one ticket at a time as I am only getting one go?

[zebo]

The Headteacher of a school I worked in was preparing for an event and raffle tickets had been sold. She got one of the pupils into her office and gave her the book of counterfoils, telling her to 'Tear these into five'. When she came back a large number of individual tickets had been torn into 5 pieces, we had a massive jigsaw in the staffroom for a few days before the event.

[Caran]

We organise the raffle at our U3A every month. We sell the tickets for 10p each and a strip of five for 50p. We strip the tickets down to individual ones.
Most people will say redraw if their number comes up again but we have one member who took three prizes in one draw and not for the first time. She didn't seem embarrassed at all on each time.
I couldn't do it.

[EDDIE51]

For the record I now agree it is illegal something I have never known before .But I very much doubt the rule would be enforced in an ordinary raffle. The one in the pub is all profits to a cancer charity by the way not to the pub. Just imagine the headlines in the Daily Wail if the old bill turned up and arrested the pub manager for holding a cancer charity raffle !
Caran, My MIL was always amazingly lucky in raffles , on one occasion she won 5 prizes and yes, she took all 5 and selected the most expensive items. It was one where the first winner gets to choose from all the prizes on offer. I was so embarrassed I had to leave the room .

[THECORBYLOON]

Pubs and clubs have accounts and any money raised from raffles form part of those accounts. When it comes to an audit, unless there are names on every stub, how does an auditor know if 500 tickets have been bought at 25p each raising £125 or 100 strips at £1 raising £100? Of course there are numerous combinations giving different totals between £100-£125 but having a fixed price per ticket, regardless of the number bought, fixes that problem.

[EDDIE51]

^ I don't know. But when I helped run a social club we just put down the total raised in a raffle and it was never questioned.

[THECORBYLOON]

I'm sure you'd not have done so but there would have nothing to stop you

[THECORBYLOON]

Useless 'phone! There would have been nothing to stop you pocketing some of the money and claiming folk bought strips rather than individual tickets.

[Purplegirl09]

If you buy a strip of 5 tickets and they don’t get separated, then you may as well just buy 1 ticket ! It becomes 1 chance of winning versus 5 chances of winning ! This way, the raffle organizer will also save money by not going through as many tickets ( usually cloakroom style tickets ) ! ( especially if your country of residence doesn’t produce/sell them and you rely on people bring to you!)
Apart from saving time separating ( takes no time when you have a group of volunteers ) what are the other advantages of not splitting ? (Buying a strip of 5 opposed to single tickets used to mean you’d get a ticket free but research shows me that’s not legal/fair, as all tickets should be same price . Also raffle organisers must be mindful that some people can’t afford as many tickets as others, so selling singly has an advantage that way too )