Secret Santa 2013 Edition (updated 9/26)

[controlthebleeding]

Update Sept 28th:
 
Link Closed. Thanks for participating. i'll get your secret santa info out soon. 
 

 

 

Update Sept 26th:
 
If you are having problems with someone or dont' want to be associated with them at all for secret santa, please let me know asap. . 
 
 
 
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Ok people. This year, we're doing it earlier (due to everyone's procrastination over the years). don't bitch because anyone who's done this know a lot of us send last minute, this might help the matter a bit. 
 
New rule: POST A FUCKING TRADELIST!!!!! (IF YOU WANT) Tradelists are optional. But try hard to do so. it really helps those who are buying records for people not send off duplicates. if you get a duplicate, don't bitch about it, if you didn't send a tradelist. 
 
ANSWER ALL THE QUESTIONS ASKED OF YOUi
I hate having to ask numerous times for pieces of info on 3 separate occasions just to get all your info. so please do this. this year, it'll be filll in the blank sign up sheet, if you miss something that isn't optional, and i don't get it, your'e name won't be on the list and it's up to you to figure that out and get me the proper info that you missed via PM. Please understand i'm here to help, but i'm not here to coddle you.
 
Newbies: You need to send by November 1st. so your package arrives before the date everyone else needs to send. 

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and now the rules:
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VC Secret Santa 2013 Rules

Your Moderator will be Mike D. (controlthebleeding)
1. Everyone interested in participating must sign up via link:
• Full Name
• Address (please place on one line only and not on three.)
• Avatar name and original name registered under (your login name when logging into the board, this issue comes up every year because people switch names a lot and often, myself included, started my account with a different name…and when trying to track somebody down it can be impossible to find them)
• (if you participated last year) the person you had last time, if you remember (to give you somebody new to buy for!).
• The link to your trade list. (if it's a google spreadsheet, please make shareable) (this is optional)
• Size of shirt just in case they have clothing in mind
• If you’re willing to ship overseas/US to Canada, etc…(this will probably drastically increase your monetary involvement, no skimping on the gift value if you spending most of the agreed amount on postage, only agree to do this is you can afford to do it.)
Send this info by the end of the day (wherever you are) Sept 28, 2013. This will be the cut off date unless we have an odd person and from there we’ll accept requests to take the missing spot.
• Wait for confirmation (there will be a list underneath the rules and will be corrected daily)

below is the preferred format i would ask of you all as it's going into a excel sheet:

Name: Efrain Jordaci

Address: 2495 rockford lane, fleetwood mac, fl 95857 USA

Avatar/screen name/og screen name: riffrafff2 (aka slimeball 2)

tradelist: googleblahblahblah393848i$@@@@@

shirt size: L

Yes, i'm willing/No i'm not up to sending overseas

2. Buy a gift for the person you get spending no less than $20 and no more than ????. THere isn't a cap for gifts. These gifts can be vinyl, music related or just rad things you think they’ll like. It can be a few small things or one big thing, whatever. Don't send anything gross or crude (NO PORN, unless you know the person loves porn). If you don't know what your person likes, look up some of their posts and use what you've learned about them from this board as a guide. If you have questions ask around, or we'll ask for you. If you want to participate, you probably need to have a trade list; post the link in your signature so that your Secret Santa can get ideas of what to buy and what not to buy for you. 

4. Pack up and send out your gift no later than November 12th. Unless you specify that you’ll agree to send packages to other countries, we’ll try to keep people to mailing within their own country, as easy cheap delivery confirmations don’t work for the USPS’s international Mail…but there are more deluxe forms of tracking, but all of them raise the price considerably for international mail. Pick the type of shipping most appropriate or affordable(in the US please remember media mail can ONLY be used for audio recorded material, books, video recordings on whatever format, ie: this is media, breaking this rule could cause your box, should it be inspected to be deemed mail fraud and not delivered, and if you’re lucky returned to sender, but most likely will be thrown away!). This is assuming that all people outside the US will use their countries equivalent delivery confirmation tracking information.
• And this is very important: ALL PACKAGES ARE TO BE SENT WITH SOME SORT OF CONFIRMATION OR TRACKING.
Send the tracking information to your Secret Santa Moderator once your package has been sent, so we have a idea of who is sending what and when, also save your receipts just in case!!!! Everyone please use my address as the return address. Please be sure to put VC Secret Santa, ATT: Mike De Los Santos, 2310 Sweet Clover Dr., Austin, TX 78745.

5. This year is same as last year. This year please include 1 or several (you choose) cd mixes with music you think said person might like. Hell send them music they might not have even heard. You never know. they might be turned on to something totally new they never even thought of listening to. Also include with the gift a piece of paper with three hints about who you are. It can be anything you want, your hometown, your favorite band, something anyone familiar with the board could figure out. Or, be vague…this is part of the fun!

6. When you receive your gift:
• post what you got in this the main thread and guess who sent it to you.
• PM your Secret Santa Moderator that you received your gift so we can mark you off our list.
This is a must. I don't want to have to be PMing people daily to see if they received their gifts. Once its been noted, please, please say THANK YOU. There's nothing more thoughtless than not at least giving a “thank you.” It's rude to say the least!

7. If you don't receive your gift by December 7th, PM your moderator (me) AND post in the main thread (do not create a new thread) This means there has been a full month of allotted shipping time. We'll find a way to punish that person. If it arrives after that, we'll forgive them.

8. If you don't like what you got, feel free to swap with someone else, re-gift or sell the item. Please don't complain even if you didnt like the gift. it's the thought that counts. right?

9. On Jan. 1 (or shortly thereafter) we will reveal who everyone's Secret Santa was.

10. All new Boardies. Rather than completely disqualify you from participating, we need you to go through a few extra hoops in order to participate. All new board members (aka if you have less than 1000 posts, less than a year old, or have never participated in Secret Santa) are required, after all initial info is entered, to send first. and have a shipping date a little over a week shorter (NOV 1) than regular members. This is for good reason. We ask this so there's a less likely chance of anyone getting ripped off. Secondly, we ask this so your package arrives in a timely manner because once your package as been confirmed upon arrival (again, please send with confirm so we can track it) by your recipient, we will then allow your Secret Santa to send your gift. Hope you understand.
*= not including those who deleted their accounts and re-joined, were part of last years Secret Santa gift exchange, or are longtime members but don't post often (again, we know who you are).

**Note to any future Secret Santa’s from overseas. We must have a even # of Secret Santas across the pond or have people willing to send overseas. Please remember to note that in your initial email/PM so we put people together in this instance.

***I also ask, once this starts rolling to have everyone hide who their recipient is until after everyone has received their gifts and figured out their Secret Santa or till we announce the list... it makes it more confusing and fun

This list of rules is not set in stone, feel free to make more suggestions and we'll alter it accordingly. This can be really fun if everyone holds up their end of the bargain.

Thanks everyone.

Mike D.

 

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Confirmed:

 

Controlthebleeding

Tokimedo

Woe Division

jhook

thejesseb

marc32137

Noalarmplanet

miketswidowspeak

Ian Rees

3arl

henster311

victimofadriveby

jeffersonhowell

cesar11

buttbuttbutt

Smailtronic

brock309

themeconspiracy

ozfacter

Zacaroo21

Daegor

TheMoosen

thefavoriteplay

Spaghetti

onlettingjoe

BigSeth

BillyA

roadmonkey

scottheisel

seangj

JerseyDave77

gkersey

koljou

edgedestroys

Loveless Wrists

RyToast

sapst16

Beardacus

yocaseycasey

The Goddamn Bat-totoro

parkinglot

bkbrandonk[/size]

jhulud

museummouth

ronniegwilliams

human ton and handy

Marc

Tellallyourfriends

jdtg

jtcohenour

Youinreverse

Kevin !

slinch

zpusher

hudsoncomplex

[billya]

I'd be down to do it again.

[David The Gnome]

This certainly interests me. Ho Ho Ho. 

[jerseydave77]

Open it up to people without trade lists and I'm in. I'm never going to make one. 

[chefchino]

I'd love to be in on this.

[GradedOnACurve]

I post here enough. I enjoy mailing things. Why not?

[BuzzersonKillwell]

I didn't have a tradelist Dave. What you taking about?

On another note, you can fuck right off with this thread until at least Halloween. Right?

[henster311]

i missed last years. i am down.

[jerseydave77]

Pretty sure in years past you needed a tradelist in order to participate. The cats that run this do a good job so they know what works and what doesn't. 

[GradedOnACurve]

Oh and this is why selfreliable stopped posting? That sucks.

[Brock N Roll]

I would definitely like to be in this year

[BuzzersonKillwell]

I can't wait to do it again. My favorite thing that happens here.

[fourfourtwo]

As much as I'd love to do this and get in the spirit, the last 3-4 years I've done SS's (through multiple sites), I've gotten boned. 2 out of the 4 years I didn't get anything (through this board and another) and I just don't want to take the risk again. Surely I can't be paired with a shit person again if I DO do this...

[onlettingjoe]

I'd be down to do it again.

[henster311]

do the SS operators know what people didnt send anything? 

[batman]

i've never participated in this--would really like to this year.

[jtcohenour]

Sounds cool

[steviex2shoes]

For as long as I've been on this board I've never done this, I could be into it this year.

[billya]

do the SS operators know what people didnt send anything? 

 

Yes. Last year we posted when we got our stuff and there was a list of who had who that only controlthebleeding had.

[Youinreverse]

Can you give the details for those of us that weren't around last year?

[billya]

Can you give the details for those of us that weren't around last year?

 

http://boards.vinylcollective.com/topic/80723-vc-secret-santa-version-50-final-update-02072013/

[cesar11]

you know I'm down again Mike!

[David The Gnome]

http://boards.vinylcollective.com/topic/80723-vc-secret-santa-version-50-final-update-02072013/

 

Thanks! 

[billya]

Thanks! 

 

No problem. Overall I think this was a good experience last year. For me, at least. Some hilarity ensued. Some bad stuff happened, but I think only one person got boned and people sent him stuff. 

[BuzzersonKillwell]

If I recall 2 or 3 people got shit late. Only one person got hosed.