i'm innest

Wow, that's great... $1000+ so far! Great job brother!

My chances are slim to none, but it's worth it

Wow, over $1,000. That is simply amazing. Hell of a job everyone..

Just a quick bit of information, we are at $1095 !!!!!!!

Remember the 21st is the last day, so if you haven't entered, now's your chance!!

Thanks again for all the generosity!!

I've got two updates...

1) We broke through the $1100 barrier and now sit at $1125 !!

2) I thought it was a little nuts to keep Hope for Paws waiting, so I sent over the first $1000. I'll send the remainder on the 22nd.



Everyone has been so generous, thanks again!

Thanks for doing this John, I'm finally settling into my normal routine after an extended Las Vegas vacation...

$10 sent.

Payment sent DB

Better late than never, but you can count me in !

Okay everyone, it's the 21st !!

At 8 pm EST Ill get numbers drawn and send them out. After that I'll draw winners!

If your number(or numbers) come up you just pm your preferred prize order to me and your address!

I'm new but i hope i can get into the draw too. Payment sent. Great idea for a great cause! Thanks.

eljawa wrote:

I'm new but i hope i can get into the draw too. Payment sent. Great idea for a great cause! Thanks.

Lee I can't see anyone minding at all. You're in!

DarthBerizing wrote:

Lee I can't see anyone minding at all. You're in!

Thanks. Feeling new here and didn't know if rookies were allowed to play. Happy to donate either way.
PS thanks everyone for making me feel welcome.

I had a good day (LETS GO RANGERS!!!!) so a few more bucks sent....

I'm starting to send out numbers to everyone. I'm sending a generic message to everyone, it'll look like this:

____________________________________________________________

Thanks for participating in the HopeforPaws fundraiser.

Your number(s) will be listed below, good luck!!

(your numbers here)

Drawing will be later tonight.

____________________________________________________________


I'm going to try and get this out over the next hour or so. If i can , I can draw winners by 8 !!

just squeaked in !

Okay everyone, we have our final numbers.

51 People donated a total of $1280!!

We have 256 entries into the giveaway and I have sent out your numbers to you. To keep anyone for having any issues, I am doing these four things.

1) Since I am a participant, I am publicly going to disclose my numbers before the drawing. In addition to my three prizes, I donated $60 which entitled me to 12 entries. I have number 239,240,241,242,243,244,245,246,247,248,249,250. This pattern of consective numbers is what most of you got, like buying a raffle ticket at fair.

2)I have sent Bill McBride the complete spreadsheet of entries. He has the names, amount donated, subsequent number of entries and the numbers themselves for everyone. I think Bill's reputation is beyond reproach so he will verify any information in case an issue arose.

3)I have already sent the balance to Hope for Paws. I sent $1000 and now have sent the remaining $280



4) To show there was no redrawing, I am going to film the random pics of numbers from www.random.org. I am going to start rolling the video from my hitting enter on this post. This way there is no issue of continuity. The post will show my clicking enter, going to the site, inputing the numbers 1-256 and clicking for a random number 7 times. There will no sound, the kids are asleep LOL


Good Luck to everyone!!

Alrighty, we have our winning numbers!!



In order of winner

175

200

211

5

123

86

10


So check your PM , or Email , or smoke signal!! If you've won, please make sure you announce it below. Then send me a PM with you choice of prize. Obviously you need to have a backup (unless you're in first) so if you're in 2nd place send me your first preference and a second place. If you're in seventh, rank all seven. Make sure you include your shipping address!!

Really this is a proud moment for us all. What an amazing event this turned out to be. Again my thanks to Jason, JT, James and Bill for donating prizes and to everyone who contributed.

I did not win, but the anticipation was worth it. So glad I participated in a well planned event and a great cause. Thanks to all involved! A special excellent job to DarthBerizing!

Yay. Won something 204,205,206,207,208,209,210,211,212,213 Were my numbers...Woot Woot.

Another great raffle and a great cause the money went towards. Thanks to John and all the other people who donated prizes, and thanks to everyone else for getting involved. Was good to see

First let me issue a big thank you to John for organizing and running the raffle as well as donating both prizes and money. The cause Hope for Paws looks like a great cause and i'm sure they appreciate the help.

Next I'd like to thank Bill McBride, ESSWCC, Ourchickenshack and Jason West for their donations and making this raffle even more enticing.

I think the community here should be proud of coming together and raising some serious cash. $1280 is not an amount to sneeze at. Every contribution, no matter how big or how small, matters.

I didn't contribute expecting to win, I just wanted to help a good cause. Of course I'm not going to turn it down though. I will be sure to pay this forward in the future.

#175

Mike

Great fun folks! Awesome thing to be a part of!
I am a winner with numbers 84,85,86,87... 86 being the winning digits!

Well done to the 'winners', John & all those involved. Such a worthy cause I'm very proud of the community for supporting this

Congratulations

DB awesome set up and follow through and thanks for the donations guys to spiff this up a little more. That was definitely fun and Always good to help the pups

Thanks John for organizing this gteat raffle for the good cause, thanks for those donating prices, and thanks to the community making this a success.

And off course congrats to the winners.

So close, I was off by 1 digit!

Thanks so much for running this great raffle John, the funds are certainly going to a very good cause.

And congrats to all the winners!