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Post by svenman on Jan 23, 2012 13:44:51 GMT -8
it's really disappointing that a substantial number of people did not get their gifts this year.
pretty much everyone involved is an established member of the forum. it may be that some items got lost in the post, but from my experience this is quite a rare thing to actually happen, especially with multiple recipients in multiple countries.
thanks for all the suggestions above. it does take up quite a few hours of organising , and has worked effectively as a system over the last few years, so i see no real need to change the way it is run so long as people do what they are supposed to do. the artchival is a pretty good collection of people and i don't think that anyone who participated has bad intentions...
point taken about the time that i end entries. if i do it next year, then i'll definitely consider running it a bit early, but not too early as it's about the xmas spirit!
i did take ken's advice much earlier in the thread, and split the names into two groups for the drawing. 1 group for europe and 1 group for usa / canada / australia. i didn;t tell anyone this before, but thought it was a good suggestion that would generally speed up things. there was a large enough pool of names to do this.
if you have not yet sent your gift, then please do so as soon as possible. i've had a few messages from people who have not received gifts yet, so i'll go about tracking through the pms to see who was sending to who (i had pieces of paper used for the draw, since discarded), but to save me the effort, if you haven't yet sent your gift then please do let me know and i can at least let the other person know so they don't think the gift is lost.
conversely, if a person has posted here that they didn't receive the gift you sent, then let me know so i can tell them the bad news.
i'll keep names out of it, so all is in confidence.
finally, if you have received your gift and not posted here, then please do so at least to settle my mind a little!
x
sven
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Post by afroken on Jan 23, 2012 14:43:57 GMT -8
What a pain in the ASS.
What? Someone had to say it!
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Post by sleepboy on Jan 25, 2012 13:33:14 GMT -8
Finally, here are photos of the gift I received. Sorry for lagging. Knowing my love for Keyes, my SS selected images for each side of a customized Rubik's Cube. A couple pics next to my interlock piece. Thanks!   Oh, and I think the current format is fine. Maybe a little more advance time. This is assuming there weren't more than 1-2 people who got screwed over. I'd say take stock at the end of January and see. Anyone who hasn't received their gift yet should contact Sven. Perhaps it got lost in the mail, etc... |
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Post by svenman on Jan 25, 2012 16:11:43 GMT -8
that's excellent! what a great gift.
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Post by highbrow on Jan 25, 2012 19:25:50 GMT -8
It also pains me to see the amount of people who have not gotten their items yet, and I am sure my person I had is one of them ( which saddens me as my item was posted and shows delivered on Jan. 3rd ) this is by far my favorite post of the year and to see it take a turn like this makes me sad as I know the amount of work Sven goes into. I will say again I was contacted from a undisclosed PM informing me my gift in two parts was shipped one part to my Florida address and the other part they asked for my GA address as they have seen I have moved. I am hoping the one to Florida did not get returned due to my CRAPPY mail man, but come on people for the love of Valentines Day get your package out if you have not, and if you have gotten your package at least pop in and say so.
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Post by hellosir on Jan 26, 2012 10:00:06 GMT -8
I have to say that I will be getting my gift late and have no gripes. It was a simple postal mistake and nothing that can be faulted by my ASS or Sven or even the system we have set in place. I think the only suggestion, which is a repeat, would be to start earlier. And that should be easy since Highbrow usually starts posting about the ASS in August and we are all used to time released prints so if you want in you know to get in on Black Friday/opening of christmas markets and we close it the first week of December. Still doesn't eliminate the issue of slow or less than intelligent postal workers but it should help@ I also think that a kind notification of a delayed gift is far more appreciated than having your ASS remain a secret. So thanks Andy and am still anxiously awaiting to know what is coming
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Post by jujurocs on Jan 26, 2012 11:16:25 GMT -8
Unfortunately, I'm not your Secret Santa but enjoy the zine. Is that your zine? Guess I can definitively state that nothing arrived for me, either. Sheesh! Weezy Yes, sir. Currently working on the next issue. |
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Post by badcatgary on Jan 30, 2012 7:17:52 GMT -8
I have received my gift, and a big 'Thanks!' to my A.S.S., but as I was only home shortly between trips, I didn't have time to take pics. I'll put some up when I get back in about 6 weeks.
As to the gift I sent, I received no confirmations from the site that I ordered from, and am working through a PayPal dispute while I look for something else. I PM'd my recipient sometime ago with my apologies, though.
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Post by hellosir on Feb 1, 2012 5:26:29 GMT -8
After some postal obstacles, Swedish Post came through and I got a gift from my ASS and it's fantastic. Two books, a then and now as it were. Thanks so much Droow! Attachments:
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Post by droow2 on Feb 1, 2012 9:36:28 GMT -8
After some postal obstacles, Swedish Post came through and I got a gift from my ASS and it's fantastic. Two books, a then and now as it were. Thanks so much Droow! !!! At last!  |
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Post by highbrow on Mar 9, 2012 5:39:26 GMT -8
Sadly I still think there are a few people as we reach March who have not gotten their package, I have not seen an image of my package I sent as of yet, and I have still seen no package on my end yet either. Regardless if my package ever makes it to my door I will still be in next year as I love the idea of a group of internet friends doing this.
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Post by notyoursecretsanta on Mar 9, 2012 8:50:36 GMT -8
Sadly I still think there are a few people as we reach March who have not gotten their package, I have not seen an image of my package I sent as of yet, and I have still seen no package on my end yet either. Regardless if my package ever makes it to my door I will still be in next year as I love the idea of a group of internet friends doing this. Well crap, I'll look into that next week. |
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Post by grotesqueanimal on Mar 23, 2012 12:38:20 GMT -8
I love weird coincidences, or the weird tricks life is playing on you sometimes… So yesterday evening, just when I was getting ready to leave the house for finally delivering my A.S.S. present (I know, it's late March, but my guy knew the gift was coming from me, and we just could not find a date for more than 2 months, busy life, meetings, illnesses, being out of the country….and since he is local I had the fixed notion of delivering in person, plus I enjoy our talks about art and our latest acquisitions a lot), my mum called. She went on for 20 minutes about the new kitchen she is getting (rambling seems to run in my family, lol), and at the end of the conversation she said, "by the way, you got a tube in the mail today, it says Royal Mail on it". It was posted on Dec. 16 in the UK, so that MUST be my lost A.S.S. gift. How WEIRD is that? The same day I finally delivered my present, the gift to me arrived. It seems like karma waited until my own gift was ready to be given. I don't believe in stuff like that, but now I should. So I have not seen the gift yet, as I gave my parents' address in Innsbruck, where I spent my Christmas. And sadly my parents don't have any neat phones or webcams or stuff, so I'll have to wait until I get there around Easter. But it is cool, I have learnt to be patient now . THANKS SO MUCH to my A.S.S., I knew your gift would arrive some day.  I will post pictures when I have it in hand. |
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Post by sleepboy on Mar 24, 2012 9:32:51 GMT -8
I hope everyone got their gifts... Overall a positive experience for most I think, but no guarantees obviously as is the nature of the internet.
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Post by highbrow on Mar 24, 2012 11:26:11 GMT -8
My secret Santa is looking into it Sleep, but either way I loved finding a gift for my person this year and will be in next year
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Post by shine166 on Oct 23, 2012 6:43:48 GMT -8
Must be nearly that time of year for sven to sort his A.S.S out ?
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Post by highbrow on Oct 23, 2012 8:05:39 GMT -8
Yeah SVEN can we proceed please....
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Post by svenman on Nov 4, 2012 12:43:03 GMT -8
Yeah SVEN can we proceed please.... do you want to take the lead this year cory....  |
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Post by highbrow on Nov 4, 2012 14:13:05 GMT -8
Sven I would love to but two issues arise, first I do not have a holiday tuque and feel it would be stealing the joy your little one gets by pulling numbers out of the tuque.
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I will post pictures when I have it in hand. 