RE: Free Raffle Ticket Give away Notice 04/02/18
Our long term goal is to end up purchasing seeds from other homesteaders and making our own seed vaults. These will be sold on Amazon to make extra money to pay for shipping costs, plus it allows us to have Amazon do the shipping and make sure we have seeds available for anyone that needs them.
We are just getting started with this. Still working on getting the bugs out of the background systems. I am also looking for people in other countries that Amazon is in, so that we can begin to get them set up to do a similar raffle for their country. They would work with other people in their country to purchase seeds and make the vaults to sell, plus run the lottery. Eventually, we will have a world wide distribution system with everything feeding back into a circle that helps support everyone.
All of this is designed to keep putting money back into the system, while providing an income for those that have room to plant for seeds to sell and ensuring everyone that needs seeds to be self reliant, has them whether they can afford to pay for them or not.
All of this takes money. I have footed the bill for almost everything that has been done with Sotall so far. Every time we physically give away SBD, it takes money out of the system, reducing the amount we can keep working back to players, suppliers and Sotall.
If we ended up having a 1st place winner of 10 SBD, then the 2nd place decided to take SBD also, it would take double funds out of the system. It is in everyone's best interest to keep as much in the system as possible to sustain growth.
I am not leaving anyone out of the equation, but I just don't have money to foot the bill for making it happen around the entire world. But I am working on it.
Thank you for an open and very concise explanation. Seeds is certainly problematic when it comes to country borders. In Australia we don't have Amazon, so anything from them would have to be shipped in and border control is very strict, unless you're powerful and wealthy. Seeds, plants and produce are even restricted between the states.
Don't feel bad about not being able to expand worldwide. Starting local is the best step forward anyway and you need to look after your own first. When you elevate those around you, they then have the ability to pass it on. I was merely curious why you wanted to stick with keeping the SBD local when it can be so easily transferred anywhere.