I will
definitely post pictures and a written review; how could I not? No video review though. The idea is for you guys to actually be able to see the saber.
Question. Several parts of my order are on back-order, does anyone know if prizes are generally held and shipped with the rest of the order, or shipped separately in such cases? (I ask here because I know US is super busy and I
don't want to pester them about a saber they're giving me for free.
)
Although I have
no idea how the order numbers work, I
highly doubt there were 2,000+ people who entered,
Looking at the records for this raffle, most of the order numbers were in the upper 160,000's to the low 170,000's. In the first 2016 summer raffle, the order numbers were mostly in the upper 150,000's to the low 160,000's. And given that there were about 3 months between raffles, that suggests about 10,000 orders during that time. Or about 3,333 orders during the time of the raffle.
However I doubt that all of those orders actually entered, or at least entered successfully; since it's not a simple "spend $250 or more and you're automatically in" raffle. They had to join/already be a part of the forum, post the raffle code, and give their forum name. (The idea of which is to get more people interested and coming back for more US, instead of of just having a bunch of one-time buyers only interested in the raffle.) I bet the number of people who actually entered the raffle successfully was much,
much lower than 2,000+.
For further evidence, this was my first US order/raffle. And I won. My friend entered the last raffle, and won, first prize, I think? That was his third US order, and his first raffle. There's
no way that the chances of winning are more than 19/1 to potentially 32/1 with two entries and two wins like that.
