Personally, I dislike the raffle format and much prefer the GB format, even when the GB amount is limited.
FCFS sales are nice if they are announced a decent amount of time beforehand and the choices are known beforehand. If it's announced like... 30 minutes before than it's kind of annoying because someone like me who is usually busy with work all day probably won't even see the announcement. Even after that, I have to plan to set aside a bit of time to beforehand in order to even participate in all of fun of going, "Omg, I submitted! Yay! Did I make it on time?!
" And that's just because of how busy I am.
I hate the randomness of raffles. I know why they exist and how it's fair for everyone because people have time to submit tickets and someone's terrible internet service cutting out on them for 4 hours won't cause them to lose out on the chance for a cap and all that. But I just really don't like them. I prefer to be able to order an artisan cap and know that if I missed out on it then it's my fault. It isn't because I was unlucky. It's just because I missed the sale period or was too slow. But as I said, I get why it exists and I'm pretty happy everyone gets an equal chance at winning a cap even though I dislike the random nature of them.
I don't really care about "rarity" or "exclusivity" to the extent that some people seem to, so something like a limited GB is more preferable to me than a quick sale with fewer available caps. I don't care at all if 50 or 100 other people have the exact same cap I do. I don't desire Bros because they are rare or because I'll feel ...
something if I get one. If I want a Bro cap, it's usually just because I just love the look of it! In addition to that, the only other thing I care about is the quality of the cap! It's not an investment for me or anything. I buy artisan caps because I love the look of them and the work that went into them and because I want to use them. I'm sure that there's some point where the quality of the caps has to decrease in order to reach a certain quantity. That is why, in order to preserve the quality of the caps, I am totally okay with limits on the # of caps people can buy or on the total # sold.
Well, I feel like I kind of rambled, but those are my thoughts on the matter.