Today I present a new site to me and a new site overall.  It’s called Raffstar It’s still in Beta, but from what I’ve seen and used – everything seems to be working fine.  To summarize it I will quote what the title bar says on the home page “Win prizes. Support charities. How cool is that?”

You register for a free account.  Then after you sign in you can get tickets for various prizes from gift cards to resteraunts to a Ninentdo Wii to a Blu-Ray player.  These tickets are free.  Each drawing happens after so many tickets are issued or after so many days.  The only catch is after the drawing ends – if you win the prize you have one hour to claim it, otherwise it goes to the next person on the list.  Some raffles you can get a ticket each hour, while others you can only get one per day.

Each raffle item has a charity associated with it.  The raffle page has information about the charity, a link to the charity’s website, and a link to make a completely optional and voluntary donation.  Eventually after the site gains popularity the charities will get some of the advertising revenue as well. This site is free because the prizes are donated or paid for by an advertiser and through the advertising revenue.

So go ahead and check out Raffstar and let me know if you win something!