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Idea for our upcoming Fundraiser - Volunteer Stuff for Donators

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mouser:
We were talking on the donationcoder chat channel and came up with a possible idea.

The idea is for people to pledge things they will give to donors during the fundraiser.
So people could pledge an item or even better a service, and an amount of donation needed to qualify.
Once an item was claimed it would not be available for others, so it would be first come first serve.
Things on the list might be like:
$50 donation = i volunteer to paint you a picture
$100 donation = one hour therapy session from KenR
etc.

I wonder if anyone knows any web service that can manage such offers and claims?

Or is this a bad idea?

kartal:
I personally think that it is a good idea. It could promote other things that standard commercial models cannot.

This sounds little more like local currency-time money concept.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-based_currency
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_currency

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_community_currencies_in_the_United_States

mouser:
Nice links kartal  :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup:

kartal:
I have always interested in time money and similar community based efforts. So I personally would like to support such ideas as much as possible.

cranioscopical:
Or is this a bad idea?
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I don't think it's a bad idea at all.  Time will tell.
The only real way to predict the motivational value of promotions is by some kind of testing.

Unfortunately I can't think of anything that I can offer in order to contribute to the cause.
I don't think 'for a donation of $25 I'll insult your intelligence' will really cut it.

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