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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2017 0:19:03 GMT -5
If possible, could a mod sticky this thread until the gift exchange and reveals are completed?
Last year, we had a small Secret Santa event and interest has been expressed in doing so again, so this is a thread for people to sign up if interested.
We will have a window to sign up extending until next Friday December 1st at midnight. If you are interested, post here (some have said they are interested in the Meanwhile thread but I asl you to post here so it's all in one place and no one gets missed), and send a PM to the coordinator (me for now unless someone else wants to jump in and do it or if pinkfloydsound wants to run it again he has dibs since he did it last year) with the mailing address you want the gift sent to.
On Saturday December 2, I will use a randomizer to match entrants with the recipient of the gift, and e-mail folks with who they are getting a gift for and their address.
Gifts should be comic or geek culture related (unless you know the recipient has other interests from their posts here) and have a max limit of $15.
You should send out the gift in time for the recipient to get it by Christmas.
When you receive your gift, post it here fo others to see.
Be aware, you must provide a mailing address to participate (along with a name attached to the address), but I will only provide the info to whomever is sending your gift via provate message. It will not be posted in the forums.
If anyone has questions or further suggestions, let me know.
-M
2017 Participants MRP hondobrode icctrombone The Captain thwhtguardian
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2017 0:20:25 GMT -5
I'm in.
-M
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Post by hondobrode on Nov 25, 2017 2:46:44 GMT -5
If possible, could a mod sticky this thread until the gift exchange and reveals are completed? -M Done ! I'm definitely in. This was fun last year !
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 25, 2017 4:31:23 GMT -5
I'm in.
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Post by The Captain on Nov 25, 2017 7:53:18 GMT -5
Add me to the list.
Follow-up: I know last year when we did this, folks were encouraged to make suggestions for things they might be interested in receiving, or they could just leave it open to the giver to decide. I'm not sure if we want to do that again this year, but for me, it would be helpful on both ends.
As a giver, I could go a lot of different ways with things, so it would be helpful to have some kind of idea as to what my receiver would like. As a receiver, the issue (no pun intended...ok, kind of intended) is that I have a lot of comics, primarily Marvel, and while I am appreciative of anything I get, if someone were to send me Marvel books, it's highly likely that I already have them.
I look at this as an opportunity for someone to say "hey, I've never tried X, Y, or Z, so I would be cool with something in that genre, series, company, etc.", and then the giver can say "I know some great things that would fit into X, Y, or Z that I would love to send."
Just a thought.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2017 12:53:41 GMT -5
hondobrode You might want to delete the address and send it via PM so it's not out in the open for anyone to get. If you're ok with it being public knowledge, that's cool, but others may want to keep their address private. The Captain if people want to provide wishlists that's cool. They can either post them in the thread or send them to me via PM with their address and I will pass them on to whomever is getting their gift. -M
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Post by hondobrode on Nov 25, 2017 13:20:04 GMT -5
@mrp
You're right
I took it down and will PM whoever needs it
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Post by thwhtguardian on Nov 25, 2017 17:49:47 GMT -5
I'm down for this and I like the Captain's idea about preferences.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2017 19:44:05 GMT -5
We've only got 5 people signed up so far, so not sure it's going to fly. We probably need 8-10 minimum for it to work. Sign up is open until Saturday Dec 2, if we push it past that, it becomes troublesome for folks to shop and ship in time to reach people for the holiday, so we'll see where we are at as the week progresses.
-M
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 30, 2017 5:50:17 GMT -5
Hey shaxper, I thought you were interested in this ?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2017 19:57:07 GMT -5
Just two (2) days left to sign up. I can extend the sign up period if people want, but it will cut down on shopping and shipping time, and to be honest, if people haven't seen this or signed up by now, I doubt extending it will get any more participants. I am not sure 5 is enough to make it work, but if folks still want to make a go of it, we can.
-M
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Post by hondobrode on Dec 2, 2017 2:19:20 GMT -5
From the looks of it everyone that participated last year is here again.
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Post by hondobrode on Dec 4, 2017 15:38:11 GMT -5
Let's find out what preferences we can work with here.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2017 16:07:48 GMT -5
I have randomized who's buying for whom, and will send PMs here in a few minutes. I haven't gotten addresses or preferences for anyone (except myself), so I will need that info to pass along to folks, assuming we want to keep it a secret santa for now and people don;t want to contact each other directly with info.
-M
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2017 16:18:12 GMT -5
PMs sent to inform participants who they are buying for. I sent along addresses I had (i.e. mine and icc's which I had as a return address on a package he sent me previously-if anything has changed on that let me know icc), but I still need mailing addresses to pass along from hondobrode, thwhtguardian and the Captain.
If you have preferences, list them here in the thread. Remember the max limit is $15.
-M
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