Guidelines for Making a Give-a-way/Lotto
* Think through first before creating a lotto/contest -A lotto takes time and effort to manage. Just because you create a lottery/contest this does not mean you will earn a profit and it's not your way to gaining riches on gaia. It is all relative to whether or not people buy your tickets.
* Spend time to organize your lotto -It's worth it to spend the time to create a lotto that's well organized. Put some effort into creating the lotto/contest. The main reason is because this helps your lotto look well established and gives the buyers a good impression.
* Refund if participants quits? -You need to let the buyers know if you refund to the participants in case they want to quit. If they want to withdraw from the lottery/contest, will you refund 100%? Or will you not refund at all and let them stay? This is very important to include as users often like to know what they are getting themselves into.
* Setting up your own rules Please remember to set up your rules for the contest. If you don't put up your rules, a user might have the right to i.e. demand you to refund, since it doesn't state that you will not refund if a participant quits. However, please keep in mind that your rules are not to violate our own. As well, if you have set up a rule for your thread that is not covered by Gaia ToS or the forum rules it is your responsibility to enforce those rules. (ex. User spams your thread, since spamming in general is not a violation of the Lotto forum rules you should handle this yourself such as refunding the user and removing them from your contest.) Please keep in mind this does not mean you can violate the rules by handling these, but it is not the responsibility of moderators to enforce your own created rules.
* Using price values when accepting items as payment -For the lotteries who accept items as payment for tickets, please make sure that the value of items you accept are being treated at the same value the items can be purchased as.
(ex. Tickets being sold for 100g each. User offers Sealed letter which is generally 6-7k, the user should recieve roughly 60-70 tickets in return respectfully.)
* Method of picking a winner in lotteries -It is now a requirement to use the "Roll Dice" or "Random number" featured in Gaia's posting system. This ensures a completely 100% effective way of picking a random user and reduces the chance of scams.
* Earning a lot is not good for business -It's not prohibited to earn more than 50% of the sales, but be smart. If the odds to win is low, ticket price is high compared to how much you will win, people won't buy tickets to your lottery.
* 50 million Lotto!! -Realistically these types of lottos are not possible. Even users who are well respected and very active generally cannot run a successful lotto of this size. This is because it usually requires hundreds of thousands of participants, or participants who are willing to dish out hundreds of thousands of gold. Very unlikely. To run a successful lotto you should think of one that could realistically be done within only a month or two. There are some that run a lot longer, and are successful. However when starting out, you should start small. Suitable lottos for people starting out are 5k, 10k, 50k, and 100k. This does not mean that larger lottos are scam. This is merely a suggestion for a succesful lotto.
Note: Do not report a lotto just because it is larger and the creator is new. A users join date and size of a lotto does not determine if it is a scam or not.
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