We sell our tickets for 25 cents so I just buy the 25 cent ticket rolls. We also break ours down in $5 increments but I just layer them in a shoe box and they come right out. (no rubberbands) One year a mom helped me tear tickets and she put paper clips on each bundle. What a mess!! I also make sure that I buy a different color each year.
For our tri-tip dinner we pre-sold meal tickets. We used the business card size as mentioned earlier. They could still use their 25 cent tickets for individual items.
We also used roll tickets for our basket raffle. I just bought double tickets and made sure that I bought a different color than the 25 cent tickets. This had worked great for us for several years.
Lisa,
Don't know if you had your event yet- we used 1 color and did the roll tickets ($2-$5 per 2000 roll) and stamped the reverse side of them. It worked well for us, we sold them at our event 4/$1.00 (Pre-sale orders we took the week prior we offered them at 4/$1.00, 24/$5.00, or 48/$10.00) This way we got a slight idea of how many we would need, as this was our first time doing a school Fun Day (carnival games & food)
It worked well for us, most games at 2 tickets, and in the end we went through 5 rolls!
Sorry to hear that your $5. ticket didn't work out for you. We have noticed that our students like to show off how many tickets they have, some even wrap them around there neck like a scarf.
My sister in IL tried your "BIG" Ticket idea also, i think she is still using. But it's not only for $5. If the student only spend 4 they punch the extra 4 or 5 holes out before the give to student. They might even just cross them out with a marker. I'm not sure. The company we use for our carnival gives us the tickets very cheap under $2.00 a roll, they are $3.00 at OfficeMAX.
The owner of the company says that he has had middle schools see the color of tickets from a younger sibling and went to buy tickets at a local store. As for marking the tickets, i'm not sure that would work. We are so covered up with people that I know our Volunteers couldn't possibly check every ticket the receive.
I took Crazy Tim's idea a step farther and created a $5 ticket that had our mascot all around the edges and were to be punched when used. It didn't go over well so I changed it to a 25 cent ticket. We will definetly have them in $5 increments on the day of so that it will be easier and faster to get them out. I may do different ammounts and use different colored rubber bands to distinguish them. It's trial and error with us. I have helped out in the past, but never on this level. We have all new people helping this year, so we are enjoying the fresh ideas.
Most tickets have numbers printed on them. this is for control as well as speeding up the process
Once you determine the value of a tickt i.e. $.25 or $.50 use the numbers.
ALWAYS START with tickets that end in 1.
For $5.00 dollar increments:
If your Tickets cost .25 go from 01 to
20 then 21 to 40 then 41 to 60. It takes less than 5 minutes to tear $500 worth of tickets.
Are presale is .20 each we still teat in 20 ticke increments and then add 5 tickets to the envelope.
For best results on any carnival, preselling will easily add 10 to 20% of income.
.50 cent tickets tear at every 10: 1 to 10 11 to 20 21 to 30
At carnivals when they start to get the mad rush we have an addition 1 to 2 officers standing at the front selling ONLY $5 increments. No $1 sales at these locations. $5, $10, $15, $20 start the person out with a few $5 and $10.
and there set to go. Don't let your money spenders get frustrated in the 1st 5 minutes of the carnival.
If you are talking about using the rolls of tickets (usually 2000 each) definitely give some good thought as to how you will package them and if you will have pre-sales.
We try to make the tickets 50cents each and then everything that's sold is priced in 50 cent increments. So we only use one type of ticket - they just hand over two if it's a $1 item, 4 for something that costs $2, etc.
We've sold them straight off the roll where the cashier counted them out as she went - which created a huge bottleneck and we've packaged them in baggies - which was okay. The most efficient for us has been to fold up $5 worth of tickets and secure with those tiny rubber bands used for braids. Less than $5, the cashier tears off the roll as needed. $5 increments, she just grabs out of the box.
What do the rest of you do (with the roll tickets)?
