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I was thinking about starting a lottery/casino guild and decided to take notes.

# Think through first before creating a lotto/contest
A lotto takes time to manage. Creating a lottery/contest doesn't guarantee you'll earn a profit and it's not your way to a fortune. It all depends on if people buy your tickets, and that depends on if your lottery is good and attractive.

# 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 =/= 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.

NEW! Major Change Present the method of picking the winner
All lotteries/games/contests/etc which require a 'random' winner must use one of Gaia's two random generator post options to present the winners. The dice roll option or the random number generator are both allowed as long as the highest number and lowest number of entrants are represented.
Example; If you have 500 participants in a lotto, the random number generater would be easiest as you can easily generate a random number between 1 and 500; however, with a dice roll you cannot unless you use a multiple of 5 - 100 sided dice. But if you did that, then participants 1-4 would not be able to win. Please make sure that your choice of random use equally represents all participants.

~ Scams Be careful when entering lottos as occassionaly these are used for scamming. Please make sure to read the post in regards to lotto/games participants to keep yourself safe from these types of lottos. All games and lottos in this forum are a gamble and not a way of making quick money; try to avoid putting all of your gold into one lotto.

If you are a user attempting to use the lottos/money games as a get rich quick scheme please be aware that scamming will result in the permabanning of your account. There are no warnings first for scammers.



~ Wrapped Presents These are legitimate games, but please be aware that it is easily to be scammed by doing so. With user-wrapped gifts you have no way of knowing for sure of what you are buying. Often times users lie about the value of an item to get more out of them. Please be very careful when purchasing wrapped presents.

Please also note that because the point of selling wrapped presents is the surprise of what you get, sellers are not required to prove what is in the box. WRAPPED PRESENTS ARE BUY AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Users selling wrapped presents; if you say the value of an item is 10-15k but really is only 2k this is classified as a scam and is bannable. As well, lying about the actual items in the wrapped gift are bannable as well.