Haines City, FL
I just found this raffle and was looking over recent winners. Can someone put me in touch with Brian Webber? I need him to buy a lotto ticket for me. GL everyone. Can't wait til the next raffle to join in.
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Quoted from Tsskinne:All these sell outs they must be doing lots of stuff for those with special needs as this was the intended goal of the organization from what I recall. “We place pinball machines with families that have children with autism, and we're in the process of opening our first community center in Maryland. All of the money raised goes to the charity.”
This seems to be the second drawing in less than a month.
I’d love to see what Spinners, has accomplished. Is it no longer Pinball Edu? I’m so very confused about the whole business/charity aspect of what is going on here.
I also noticed this on the State of Maryland website today. Go here and search Pinball Edu and you will see it says they have never actually completed the paperwork to be a charity and can’t solicite donations.
http://sos.maryland.gov/Charity/Pages/SearchCharity.aspx
Pretty odd for an organization running this raffles on a regular basis raising thousands of dollars at a time.I also noticed that they seem to have raised over $100,000 yet their federal tax filling is the simple form which you only file if you have far less income. Just lots of little oddities. Maybe some of you may also like to check this out as it’s just not adding up to me at all when I look at it. Maryland does provide a convenient form
to report a charity you may have concerns about their legitimacy as well. http://sos.maryland.gov/Charity/Pages/Report-A-Charity.aspx
I’m sure Spinners has plenty of answers for all these issues though and again I’d love to see some of the events they have hosted and games they have placed in homes. Our hobby is so full of people doing great things it’s wodnerful to share them to encourage others to do the same or you know even buy a ticket for that next questionably legal raffle they host.
Thanks for the info @tsskinne. You gotta charge your phone though 
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Quoted from Nemesis:I have seen people on fb call this a scam, can anyone vouche for the legitimacy of this thing?
Depends on how legitimate you mean. In respect to does the person raffle off items including a pinball machine, He indeed does. I have not heard anyone say they did not get what the "won". In terms of the remaining profits going to help those in need in anyway, that is yet to be seen (unlike Project Pinball). In terms of randomness, it is in this pinsiders opinion that having a person grab a piece of paper out of the bucket or roller is fine but when pieces are clearly bent or different sized than others (no idea why my 5 year old nephew can cut rectangles of equal size) it makes me think that there is some kind of fixing going on. These are my opinions and all I have is what I see. When he looks like he is "concentrating" while picking names and shuffling around the entries for significant time it makes me think he is searching for something rather than shuffling more in a drum that was already turned. These again are just my observational opinions and full disclosure I do not enter his drawings anymore. I stick strictly with Project Pinball. I have not won any machines or items from either but I like what I see from Dan at Project Pinball more.
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