How do you handle when a co-worker asks you to buy raffle tickets for his fund raiser? Sometimes it is Knights of Columbus or to raise money for the swim team or boy scouts. What is the max you will spend on tickets? There is one guy that hits me up for these $20 tickets a couple times a year. I know I am never going to win but I have purchased them to help him out. Now I feel I gave enough money to his "funds" and just don't want to buy them anymore. Am I just too cheap? I work with the guy everyday so I need to be civil. What do you do?
I just say, "No thanks". If he persists, tell him you are saving for a tractor. If that don't work, walk away and pretend you didn't hear him.
People have made comments about that I purchased a place up north so I must have the money. Bunch of hog wash. They also have just let the tickets lay on my desk. So I would actually have to return it and say no. Kind of a crappy, pushy way to sell tickets IMO.
They collected for a wedding fund for a co-worker, I refused I did not like that lady. When she came by to thank me, I told the truth, I did not give diddle to the fund. People need to learn, it's not their money
I can get you tickets to win a 100 New York Strip Steaks for a $ 1.00 donation to support our scout troop .
I pretty much always buy raffle tickets! 9 times out of 10 they are for a good cause and i don't mind winning stuff!
I have to sell that crap and I refuse to pressure guys. Just tell them no. They will understand. There are a few of us that have kids involved with sports and we will usually buy each others stuff but I am just like everyone else. I don't want to buy the crap either. I got in trouble for selling girl scout cookies 1 day before the official time to sell. (I had no idea we were supposed to wait)Had a regional scout master or whatever call my daughter's troop leader and threatened her and us. All this because they have made it a competition between troops and we had a troop leader of another troop as a secretary at work. She "reported " me. To this day I refuse to buy or sell those damn things. Talk about loosing sight of what you are in it for sent from my samsung note 2
I stopped buying Girl Scout cookies about 10 years ago. I prepaid for about 8 boxes and never received the first one. I got scammed or the girl lost my order. I paid the bucks and got no cookies. I now just tell them... NO FRIGGING WAY. LOL Little girls run and scream. LOL I buy some raffle tickets if it's something I may want. I don't need a new gun, or bow, or house or whatever... I don't buy. I know I need no magazines or books or food or haircuts. LOL I buy all the raffle tickets I'm suppose to sell for the fish club. I buy the Tickets I'm suppose to sell for the Rod and Gun Club raffle(at $25 a piece)... but that's it. NOPE, never won the gun club raffles. I have won the fish club top prize... a fly rod outfit. I usually buy $150 or so a year of tickets from the Spey Nation in raffle tickets... but they usually give our fish club a few thousand in proceeds from the event. I did win a Spey rod one year and a bunch of fly tying stuff another year. Besides that, they're a great outfit and I consider it a worthy donation.
I usually buy them if it's something I want or from people I like. I'm sure one day my little one will be selling them too. I hope the same ppl buy from me.
I don't really care for the people that do it at work. I've had people that I haven't seen in over a year at my office ask me to buy tickets. I won't buy from them, because they don't take the time to keep in touch. There are a few people I buy from at the office when they're selling, because they actively tell me how their kids are doing in said sport, so I feel like I'm helping a good friend, but if I feel I've donated enough, I just say that I don't have the money. If they say something about your cabin (which is amazing by the way), just tell them that if they controlled their money wiser, they too could have something that awesome.
