About the recent comments about the failure of online lotteries, I can give you two examples of INCREDIBLY successful lotteries: www.freelotto.com and www.fun-lotto.com There are of course many more. I think only the lotteries/raffles where you have to pay for your bet/ticket are the ones which fail. BTW, I recently read that is illegal in the U.S. to make a paid raffle or lottery. It can be maintained by advertising, but you can't charge for the ticket (I guess it depends on the state; I don't live in the US, but my sites are hosted there). When people exited GoldenRaffle.com, a pop-up window asked "If you didn't place your bet, please explain me why", and these are some of the answers I got: "Doesn't look to promising": I guess it's because of the amount of players and the uncertainty about when it was going to close. I hope it wasn't because of the site's appearance! "I don't want to gamble and loose my gold.": Seems few people like to spend money in something that is not sure to return any benefits. So, I'm thinking about relaunching my Golden Raffle site, with the following changes: (1) 100 players/bets instead of 1000. The prize would be lower, but the wait would also be lesser and the probability of winning would be 10 times higher. Anyone has suggestions about the prize amount? (2) Instead of paying for the bet, you would have to visit some sponsor sites. Anyone has suggestions about the number of sites that bettors would be willing to visit? (3) The raffle would close at the end of the month. If the 100 bets goal wasn't reached, the percentage corresponding to the prize would be donated to charity (To any charity accepting e-gold). The BIG problem is getting the sponsors. How do online lotteries get advertisers when they start up? Do they pay to get sponsors? Could someone in the gaming industry please answer this question? And finally: If there is the 1/100 possibility of winning some prize (For example, 40 AUG), how many of you would be willing to place a bet for free? I keep waiting for your suggestions, ideas, comments, etc. Thanks in advance... ----------------------------------------------------------- Alexis Golzman http://www.RestYourEyes.com --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did you know that the new e-gold Secure Random Keypad can help you to protect your passphrase from both keystroke & mouse- click "sniffing" trojan viruses? You can find out more about computer security at: http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/home_networks.html