[NSRCA-discussion] PayPal payment problem (raffle tickets sales)

[Bill's Email]

 My wife used to work for a hospital foundation. They got sideways 
selling "raffle tickets" with various government agencies and so on.

They learned there are two keys:

1 - DO NOT CALL IT A RAFFLE. It is an OPPORTUNITY DRAWING. I know, 
semantics, but it works for the IRS so I suspect PayPal will be OK.

2 -  you CANNOT require people to buy a ticket. If they want a ticket 
for free they can ask for and demand one. Now in nearly 10 years of 
doing several opportunity drawings per year they never once had someone 
demand a free ticket. But it is a key part of this.
 

May not help here, but this is what most all non-prfit groups around the 
country have learned to do in order to keep doing raffles.. oops, I mean 
opportunity drawings without getting government agencies unhappy with them.