Thats funny that you posted this today because today during my O Chem lab, my lab partner suggested I do the same for my convertible. We started discussing it trying to figure out the details ( mostly just cost per ticket, # sold to come out close to what I need, not the legalities ). I think that if you could lay out the terms of the raffle as specifically as possible, I don't see how it shouldn't be legal.
Something along the lines of:
250 tickets will be sold at $25 a pop ( $6250 total ). At the end of a 2 weeks ( or some other specific time period ). A ticket number will be chosen at random. ( or you can assign each person a specific number and have a random number generator pick a number.
I think you could have pretty good success selling tickets on here being that ( for the most part ) people trust one another on here. If you could hammer out the details of the raffle a lit bit better, so it doesn't sound like a scam, I'm sure you could also sell tickets locally and probably even on eBay.
I'm really interested to see what comes of this and may even do it as well for my convertible.
