This was my review on meetup.com of the "Easter Eggstravaganza!" event we attended on Saturday, which was advertised as having 1/4-million easter eggs.

"Wow. Overcrowded, poorly organized, with ridiculously unmarked and unsupervised parking. I suppose I should have expected it from a free event, but the lines for ANYTHING and EVERYTHING were amusement-park long with very little in the way of satisfactory payoff. The toddler egg hunts were fine, but the older kid ones were essentially rude, sanctioned stampedes where children and adults trampled each other mercilessly. Maybe my standards are too high, but I saw very little in the way of polite or charitable behavior from anyone of any age, including the organizers and volunteers."

Here's where I think they went wrong: brand-new bicycles as raffle prizes.  And the raffles were free!  Sorry, but if you need a mountain bike as a bribe in order to spread the Word, you're doing something wrong.