FIRST Fundraiser: Selling LED "Lightbulbs"

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Originally Posted by ericzundel

A box of Gurl Scout cookies is under $5 and I believe the Boy Scout popcorn sales have some kind of $10 option.

-Eric.

Being a Boy Scout myself, I can tell you that while GS cookies are the most successful thing an organization has ever sold, BSA popcorn has never done well, to the point where my Troop has decided to completely ditch using that as a fund-raiser.

This then brings my main concern about using this as a fundraiser. If selling slightly over-priced popcorn and not doing well, how am I going to sell $25 LED's? With all the government credits out there, and I'm sure within a year or two the price will come down and they'll end up on the deal rack at Home Depot who will buy them?

Maybe I'm wrong, and I very well could be, but if I was going to start using this as a fund-raiser, I would have to see another team do this and get successful results.

Don't get me wrong LED's are great way to go with lighting in the future, but as a fund-raiser for FRC, I don't think it could work.

My $0.02.