I've been toying with the idea of offering a raffle on futures.io (formerly BMT). This is just for fun.
The idea of a raffle is that a lot of people pay a small amount of money for the chance to win a big prize. Let's say the raffle item was a $1,000 computer. If the raffle was for 100 people @ $10 per raffle ticket, your chances are 1/100 but it only cost you $10 bucks and one person in that group is going to come out with a $1,000 computer.
futures.io (formerly BMT) would act as intermediary for the PayPal transactions (the raffle tickets) and would take care of distributing the prize to the winner.
Is this something that you guys are interested in? It's only worth it if there is a large enough interest, so please reply back with your feedback and if you like the idea please also include some ideas for what the prizes could be. This could be an on-going thing that we just do as a group, and every 'x' weeks or months when the raffle sells out, we pick a winner and then pick a new item to raffle off next time.
Also, I'm only interested in making this available to Elite Members.