Sounds good!
One negative I can think of is giving all our contact info to this company (Elfster), but it's not like Google etc. don't have them anyway from when Google survey was used lol.
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Sounds good!
One negative I can think of is giving all our contact info to this company (Elfster), but it's not like Google etc. don't have them anyway from when Google survey was used lol.
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Yeah. It is what it is. It's either Google or some other group, ha.
Any tips you have for the setup, please feel free to message me with. I'll read through them before I set up a dummy to test!
Have you considered using survey monkey? It can create pools based off answers from the survey. They expanded their free offerings recently and it's a bit more robust than prior offerings in my experience.
Looking forward to participating this year!
Safe travels Nicoga
Looking forward to participating this year!
Safe travels Nicoga
YAY!!!!! I've been searching every week for a new post on this year's secret santa. I've been itching to be a part of it again.
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Hey guys!
Please join this FAKE exchange. I'm running some tests before I make the official thread this week.
Test ERA Exchange. NOT THE REAL THING.
Please join this FAKE exchange. I'm running some tests before I make the official thread this week.
Test ERA Exchange. NOT THE REAL THING.
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OK....So it looks like I have a few options. The easiest is probably to create a few different Secret Santas that you can join. Looking at restricting matches and stuff seems like it will be MUCH more of a hassle. So I will do:
- Full International
- USA
- North, South, and Central America
- Europe
- Asia
- Australia
I wish for easier life with the shipping costs, but in the same time I worry about splitting the pool too much. So I don't know what is best here.
I agree that doing it by hand for each participant is too too much work.
That's my worry as well :/
I'll be going full international no matter what.
Signed up to the test exchange.
I think it seems doable, but some of the pools (Asia in particular) might be very small.
sounds complicated :D
no-go with just "global secret santa" but you can toggle a checkbox with "if possible, match me with another local" and just matchmake those who used the checkbox?
With Elfster, the organiser would have to manually select, for each non-international person, who they aren't eligible to match with.
ugh, ok. Was hoping for a database with id's that a query could auto-match them :/
This is my thought as well. I'll participate regardless, but to bucket up Europe is a very different shipping prospect to doing, say, just the UK as a group. Will go with the flow, whatever is decided.
I always go full international, because I love the idea of getting a gift from someplace far away.
Done!
Done!
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I'm more than happy to break EU down a bit, but I need feedback on how to do so.
Do you have information on European participation last year? That might help with deciding which individual countries are worth having a separate pool for.
Considering that the SS was started only a couple/few weeks after Era was established, that may not yield very accurate results for this year with the membership being a lot larger now
I can only speak about shipping from Finland, but I suspect it is much the same in the rest of Europe.
Shipping inside Europe generally is the same no matter the country. As such I don't see the reason to split Europe. Ofcourse shipping inside countries is cheaper, like UK only etc., but I'm not sure having such small pools is a good idea. I know having only Finns or Scandinavians in my pool would be a bummer.
Shipping to other continents, or Russia or Asia is where the costs rise. The smallest possible packet to USA for example is 41,90 € and I'm not sure that even has tracking. I'd love to be able to send a good box full of nice stuff, but with that shipping it's not possible for me.
All that being said, there are many sides to this and I'm going to join anyway, whatever nicoga3000 chooses. :)
Edit: one thing to note if/when using Elfster to make the the separate pools. They are separate, period. If you pick Uranus only, you will also be recieving from someone who also is in the pool Uranus only.
Shipping inside Europe generally is the same no matter the country. As such I don't see the reason to split Europe. Ofcourse shipping inside countries is cheaper, like UK only etc., but I'm not sure having such small pools is a good idea. I know having only Finns or Scandinavians in my pool would be a bummer.
Shipping to other continents, or Russia or Asia is where the costs rise. The smallest possible packet to USA for example is 41,90 € and I'm not sure that even has tracking. I'd love to be able to send a good box full of nice stuff, but with that shipping it's not possible for me.
All that being said, there are many sides to this and I'm going to join anyway, whatever nicoga3000 chooses. :)
Edit: one thing to note if/when using Elfster to make the the separate pools. They are separate, period. If you pick Uranus only, you will also be recieving from someone who also is in the pool Uranus only.
While less personalized you can buy stuff in the home country try and ship from there thus removing shipping costs. Then to have a personalized touch, send a card.
Yup. I of course understand anyone who can't afford / doesn't want to pay those high shipping costs, but they'd also lose out on the fun of receiving a gift from another continent.
Also, don't split up Europe any further. That's almost incestuous. The fun of doing Secret Santa in an online community is getting gifts from an international userbase.
As some of you may know, my SS bailed on me last year unfortunately (I think I was the only case). A few weeks ago battousai contacted me asking for some basic information about my hobbies/things I like, as he really wanted to get something for me taking into account my actual SS didn't send me anything. I told him I really appreciated his interest but it wasn't necessary, but he kept insisting! So I had no other choice to give him some info about me, and today the postman delivered this :D I'm totally amazed
Christmas has come quite early this year :) Thank you so much battousai, you really went above and beyond with the gifts: Super Graphic; Blood, Sweat and Pixels; and How to build a car, (3 books I've been meaning to get for a really long time and will be devoured over the next few weeks), and Wolfenstein 2, which I'm pretty sure I'll love taking into account the first one is one of my GOTGs.
I really have no words to show you my gratitude, you're amazing!
PS: sorry for the crappy picture, package came as I was about to leave to catch a train lol
Christmas has come quite early this year :) Thank you so much battousai, you really went above and beyond with the gifts: Super Graphic; Blood, Sweat and Pixels; and How to build a car, (3 books I've been meaning to get for a really long time and will be devoured over the next few weeks), and Wolfenstein 2, which I'm pretty sure I'll love taking into account the first one is one of my GOTGs.
I really have no words to show you my gratitude, you're amazing!
PS: sorry for the crappy picture, package came as I was about to leave to catch a train lol
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This was my thought.
I can't please everyone. I might stick to my previous planned bullets and run with it.
As some of you may know, my SS bailed on me last year unfortunately (I think I was the only case). A few weeks ago battousai contacted me asking for some basic information about my hobbies/things I like, as he really wanted to get something for me taking into account my actual SS didn't send me anything. I told him I really appreciated his interest but it wasn't necessary, but he kept insisting! So I had no other choice to give him some info about me, and today the postman delivered this :D I'm totally amazed
Christmas has come quite early this year :) Thank you so much battousai, you really went above and beyond with the gifts: Super Graphic; Blood, Sweat and Pixels; and How to build a car, (3 books I've been meaning to get for a really long time and will be devoured over the next few weeks), and Wolfenstein 2, which I'm pretty sure I'll love taking into account the first one is one of my GOTGs.
I really have no words to show you my gratitude, you're amazing!
PS: sorry for the crappy picture, package came as I was about to leave to catch a train lol
that's incredible
As some of you may know, my SS bailed on me last year unfortunately (I think I was the only case). A few weeks ago battousai contacted me asking for some basic information about my hobbies/things I like, as he really wanted to get something for me taking into account my actual SS didn't send me anything. I told him I really appreciated his interest but it wasn't necessary, but he kept insisting! So I had no other choice to give him some info about me, and today the postman delivered this :D I'm totally amazed
Christmas has come quite early this year :) Thank you so much battousai, you really went above and beyond with the gifts: Super Graphic; Blood, Sweat and Pixels; and How to build a car, (3 books I've been meaning to get for a really long time and will be devoured over the next few weeks), and Wolfenstein 2, which I'm pretty sure I'll love taking into account the first one is one of my GOTGs.
I really have no words to show you my gratitude, you're amazing!
PS: sorry for the crappy picture, package came as I was about to leave to catch a train lol
Wow, it got to you a couple of days earlier than what amazon quoted. I'm so glad the gifts are to your liking! I wish I could've gotten this squared away sooner, but work has been so hectic recently. I do hope you join this year's Secret Santa, even though last year didn't go as planned.
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2018 thread is up to start raising awareness.
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https://www.resetera.com/threads/2018-era-secret-santa.79500/
Sorry, Era is acting REALLY weird for me right now. Super slow, laggy, multiple clicks to do anything...DDOS? No idea. But here you go!
Yup, you were spot on with the gifts, they're all amazing! And yeah, I was already planning on joining again this year but after this my Christmas spirit is through the roof, bring it on! :)
Wrong year.......unless it took a year to get to you then that's some bad postmen
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