I agree with some of Conor's thoughts, but I was more referring to what I thought was stores conducting raffles or lottery draws to get kids interested. I guess I don't know exactly how this works, but if you have to pay for a ticket for a chance to win a big card, I don't like that idea for kids.
I am a bit isolated from this aspect of the hobby, but I think this kind of thing is going on. Plus so-called "box breaks" where kids pitch in part of the money, but may walk away with pretty much nothing to show?
I might be misunderstanding how some of this works, but my point is that I think kids should be drawn in for collecting (accumulating things with some value), rather than true gambling (more often than not losing your money).
If, on the other hand, it was more like a customer appreciation draw (ie. spend $10 or more here today on whatever you want, and get a free ticket for a draw on an autograph card at 4PM), then I'm OK with that.
Cheers,
Blair
Last edited by Bosox Blair; 08-17-2013 at 04:46 PM.
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