Any interest in a fundraising forum pedal tour?

monquixote

We've got another pedal to give away for a Christmas forum compo and the plan was to raffle the pedal as we did last time however the suggestion has been made that we could do a pedal tour like the Jooky guitar a while back. 

The idea being that anyone who wants to join in pays a nominal fee (£20?) and the pedal gets delivered to them. They then get to keep it for a period of time (up to a month?) before it goes on to the next person and then we could auction it off at the end.

Anyone with the pedal would be encouraged to take pictures and sound clips etc. 

Very interested to hear peoples thoughts on if that would be something you would be interested in and what an acceptable donation and duration would be?

Fretwired

Sounds like a good idea ...

littlegreenman

I'd be up for it. £20 sounds more than fair, although a month sounds a bit long. A week should be more than long enough to have a fiddle about and record a clip.

Drew_TNBD

I don't think asking people to pay £20 to demo a pedal for a week is at all cool.

EricTheWeary

The Jooky went around quicker than a month each ( varied a bit but roughly a week each)IIRC and contributions were a voluntary amount. It went hand to hand on a journey something like Bristol via London up to Inverness and the logistics were quite complicated. So, it's doable but someone needs to work it all out once the expressions of interest are gathered.

TTony

EricTheWeary said:

the logistics were quite complicated

Logistics should be a bit easier with a post-able pedal though.  Unless people *want* to meet in a service station cafe of course

£20 for a week seems a bit steep.  Maybe we make it £10 for a week, but with some sort of library (remember them) style additional contribution for anyone that doesn't move it on within the week.

Also, howasabouts we have some sort of competition to win ownership.  Everyone who has it for the week records & posts something (SoundCloud) and we have a forum vote for the winner?

We're trying to be a bit more creative (rather than just having another raffle) to raise a little bit of ££s towards the costs of this place.  Although that does mean that the poor puppy would be out of a job.

EricTheWeary

Service station cafes? My handovers were a library car park and a MacDonalds car park in the snow, actually going inside a cafe would have been luxury...

fretmeister

£20 to hire a pedal?

I presume £15 of that is a refundable security deposit?

chillidoggy

No-one's going to want to venture into Margate, so I'm out.

mudslide73

I'd be up for it. I remember a BYOC Tonebender going on a tour of Zeppelin.com forum members. I think the diary idea is great - some pics of it at gigs and on people's boards as well as any recordings. 

What about everyone signing/tagging or decorating it in some way to make it really unique? (ZVEX etc.). 

mudslide73

chillidoggy said:

No-one's going to want to venture into Margate, so I'm out.

Apart from Chas and Dave of course

randomhandclaps

Would a Behringer tuner take being posted more than the once?

guitarfishbay

The point isn't the price to hire the pedal, the point is to raise funds for the forum.  The pedal is just a reward/incentive for donating.  I don't think TFB is starting a pedal rental business here.  £20 might be a high suggested donation though, but that is a different issue to the one of the pedal idea IMO.

TTony

chillidoggy said:

No-one's going to want to venture into Margate, so I'm out.

Not even your postman @chillidoggy - this should be a pedal process, unless people actually want to meet up of course. 

TTony

randomhandclaps said:

Would a Behringer tuner take being posted more than the once?

We have something quite nice ... and possibly a little more robust

Gassage

I'm in as long as it's a digitech bad monkey

mellowsun

20 quid all in, or 20 plus postage?

If it's a Strymon Big Sky I'm in.

mike_l

Gassage said:

I'm in as long as it's a digitech bad monkey

In which case, I'm not lending mine out............

Next time I see Monq or Tony, I'll make a donation, but I don't want to join in the pedal pass-round (I have enough trouble using all of my own).

Hootsmon

randomhandclaps said:

Would a Behringer tuner take being posted more than the once?

make it a BAD MONKEY and it can walk to each of our houses

Grunfeld

TTony said:

We're trying to be a bit more creative (rather than just having another raffle) to raise a little bit of ££s towards the costs of this place.

I'm cool with a raffle.  You know where you are with a raffle:  chuck your cash in, cross your fingers; no faff.  Not keen on the pedal whirlygig idea meself (and can't run to £20 tbh). 

Slightly tangential (so ignore if necessary) but back in the day on Blue Peter they had a sort of "thermometer" thing to show how much had been raised and how much was to go.  (I think you had to send in beer bottle tops or something.)  And on Kickstarter you see where the target goal is.  Which is cool if it's met but probably not so cool if it's not.  Which is an incredibly long-winded way of saying are targets a good idea?

PolarityMan

The thing with the pedal tour is that collectively people would be giving an awful lot to royal mail (i guess a fiver on £20 entry fee that's a fifth of all money being taxed by the postman).

Mind you I still haven't donated (ahem) so who am I to complain about how you do it. 

I reckon the raffle is a better idea, set your price, allow one entry per person and then off you go.