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Everything has gone online, nowadays - including raffles. Type the internet search term 'online raffle' and you get a ton of raffles, which are currently taking place online. Most of these are aimed at raising money for various worthy causes. The way the system works is that participants in the raffle buy tickets,dated in 2007,discount Apple ipad 2 buy,Gift Box - Around Christmas time, which are then subjected to a draw, with the winning tickets earning their holders various prizes. There is consolation for those who don't get to win prizes: that at least their money went into contributing for a worthwhile venture. Those who win prizes can still live with the joy that comes from having contributed to a worthwhile venture, in addition to the prizes that they win from the raffle.

The shopping voucher codes are made from letters,Wholesale apple ipod 5 touch online, numbers or a combination of those. When used in raffles, they are given to raffle winners, with the instructions for the winners to go to such and such a site, selling such and such wares, enter the code- and instantly earn 'cash credit' on the site, which they can then use to buy stuff there without paying for cash.

The second reason behind the popularity of shopping voucher codes with online raffle organizers is the convenience they come with. In most cases, the codes are automatically generated by the computer. All that the raffle organizers have to do is to pay the money to back-up the voucher to the store where the voucher is to be redeemed, alongside the code for the voucher (which they also give to the winners), and everything would work out well.

Now in the traditional type of raffles (the ones done outside the Internet), the prizes given to the winners were usually things like household items, impressive items like cars and houses and so on. The impressive items, of course, were few. To increase the number of winners in the raffle, 'consolation' prizes like shopping vouchers were introduced. These were just a step away from hard cash, which was usually never given - because giving cash prizes would turn the raffle into pure gambling. With the shopping vouchers so won, people could go to the stores where they were valid, and redeem them for wares worth that much.

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Now as alluded to earlier, one of the main reasons why shopping voucher codes are so popular with raffle organizers is because of the fact that they offer better gift ideas than hard cash, which they are a close substitute to. As alluded to earlier, starting to offer hard cash gifts in raffles would make the raffles to be more of gambling games,Cheap Samsung Galaxy S3 for sale, with all the complications that come with the management of gambling. So the shopping voucher codes make for a better prize,tone and silhouette., one that - while not hard cash - still leaves the recipient with many options on how to liquidate it.

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Prada’s own retail stores contributed to an increase of retail sales by 15.6 percent (same store sales by 7 percent), whereas wholesale reported a decline in sales by 3.5 percent. The company said this was mainly due to "the selective strategy adopted by the group, which led to a reduction in the number of wholesale partners by more than 100".

The idea of giving shopping vouchers as prizes was carried on, when raffles moved online. But the trouble with the online environment was that the use of traditional (printed) vouchers would have been very highly inconvenient: which is what led to the development of shopping voucher codes.