Raffle Miscalculation

Category: Zone BBS Suggestions and Feedback

Post 1 by OceanDream (An Ocean of Thoughts) on Saturday, 05-Nov-2011 11:17:27

Hello all. I went to purchass some tickets today for the 1,000,000,000 point raffle, and I noticed something wrong. Under the raffle information, it said:
Tickets you've purchased: 8
Total tickets sold: 3086
Maximum tickets per person: 1000
It then goes on to say the following:
You may currently purchase up to 780 tickets for this raffle.

Hold on. If you can purchass up to 1000 tickets, and I've only purchassed 8 so far, how is it that I have 780 left? I should have 992 left, should I not?

Post 2 by Blue Velvet (I've got the platinum golden silver bronze poster award.) on Saturday, 05-Nov-2011 11:53:40

Yes you should. Awhile back I purchased the maximum number of tickets allowed for a raffle and was told I had exceeded the limit. So there are clearly some problems with the raffles.

Post 3 by OceanDream (An Ocean of Thoughts) on Tuesday, 08-Nov-2011 7:48:02

OK. this morning, without purchassing anymore tickets, I went into the same raffle, and it then said I could purchass up to 803 tickets. OK. Getting better, but still not the 992 I was looking for. that's strange.

By the way, I then purchassed 3 more tickets. 3 tickets were accurately deducted from the number of tickets I could then purchass, so I would venture the guess that whatever is going wrong is happening either before or during the initial purchass.

Post 4 by sugarbaby (The voice of reason) on Tuesday, 08-Nov-2011 16:07:20

ok I'll flag this to the admins.

If anyone else is having similar issues please feel free to post them here..

Post 5 by tHc (Newborn Zoner) on Wednesday, 09-Nov-2011 5:13:29

It is totally normal. The number of tickets you can purchase depends on the points you actually have in your acount. Perhaps between the two trys you had won a bit of points, there for you could purchase first 780, then 800. You just can't purchase 992 because you don't have enough points to do so.