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Hey, If you were one that won one of my hand-made hats, DM me... I want to send those on to you... Thanks.
-Mrs.EE
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Keeper of TASBot
Quote from HellaBored:
I'm curious as to how this is progressing as well. Apparently I won the Tasbot, and have been itching to show it off, but have yet to get an email.
I apologize if this creates any unnecessary pressure, I could only imagine how much work is involved in shipping out around 200 prizes.
I apologize if this creates any unnecessary pressure, I could only imagine how much work is involved in shipping out around 200 prizes.
I have your prize but I haven't heard a thing from Mike either. Let me know if you hear anything. I hope Mike is OK - I know he was *really* busy and then *really* sick...
Exoray
My initial assumption was that it would be done the way doicm describes this time as well but it seems Mike took it upon himself to contact everyone this time around. Knowing in retrospect how busy he has been these past few months we should probably have assigned a few other people to help out with that task.
We will need to fix this process for SGDQ as 4 months is really not an acceptable wait for anyone involved.
We will need to fix this process for SGDQ as 4 months is really not an acceptable wait for anyone involved.
Keeper of TASBot
I still haven't heard anything. Is there anything I can do to help the process along? I've directly PM'd HellaBored who won the TASBot because he posted in this thread but I haven't yet researched who the winner of the beanie and gauntlets is to find out if they have an account on the forums. As an aside, my prizes are a bit unique in that I really do want to cater what I'm giving away to the needs of the winner (i.e. throw in extra USB cables and the like for the TASBot as needed, get measurements for the gauntlets / gloves so my wife can tailor them, etc.).
My feelings on The Demon Rush
Yeah sorry, I've been busy with other things in my life, and one of the things that was put to the wayside was prizes. I have no excuse for this and I'll try to think of a better system (a database and likely someone to take over the prize contacting role) for the next AGDQ, but for now I'm just catching up by following up with the prize winners and collecting their addresses. I'll have the contact information by next week and I should have everyone contacted by then too (both prize winners and people shipping prizes).
Franklin: The prizes were already rerolled. They needed to be rerolled because there was initially a glitch on our system during AGDQ that only let new donors win prizes. If you were a former prize winner before the reroll, I'm sorry, but we had to reroll the prizes so everyone could get a fair chance to win one.
Franklin: The prizes were already rerolled. They needed to be rerolled because there was initially a glitch on our system during AGDQ that only let new donors win prizes. If you were a former prize winner before the reroll, I'm sorry, but we had to reroll the prizes so everyone could get a fair chance to win one.
Exoray
Quote from Meagan Roach:
I have a couple prizes to contribute for SGDQ 2014, I just need a contact and instructions. Please get a hold of me at meaganroachis@gmail.com 
You can find the prize thread for SGDQ 2014 here: https://forum.speeddemosarchive.com/post/sgdq_2014_prizes.html and it contains all the instructions you need to submit prizes.
I've been talking with other prize donators, who have also indicated that they haven't been contacted either with winner details. As far as I'm concerned, this reflects very poorly on SDA organizers as far as the prize department is concerned, and I'm very hesitant about donating to future marathons as a result (as much as I've loved donating to marathons in the past).
I just don't know how the ownership works with my perlers as it is, whether I can claim ownership once again of my perlers, whether they were given ownership to SDA once I submitted them, etc. I don't know how those sort of rules work or were even set to begin with. I mainly want to know because I don't know what to do with my prizes if they're still in limbo or if they're going to eternally be in limbo.
I just don't know how the ownership works with my perlers as it is, whether I can claim ownership once again of my perlers, whether they were given ownership to SDA once I submitted them, etc. I don't know how those sort of rules work or were even set to begin with. I mainly want to know because I don't know what to do with my prizes if they're still in limbo or if they're going to eternally be in limbo.
Exoray
I'll ask mike for a status update on this, to see what's up and make sure some emails just weren't lost on the way.
It is completely unacceptable that you've had to wait this long and even though I've only been involved in pre-marathon organizing the prizes and not anything revolving the shipping, I still feel really bad that you guys have ended up in this position.
I don't know what went wrong this year compared to previous years. It was even supposed to be easier this year with the prize donors handling the shipping instead of mike having to do all the packaging and postage himself.
I completely understand your reluctancy to donating prizes to future marathons. It's not fun having your stuff end up in limbo.
The events are only getting bigger and bigger so there's bound to be some growing pains.
The best I can do right now is to locate the growing pains and come up with the proper prescriptions.
I will work towards finding out what can be done to countermeasure this kind of huge delay and see to it so that we have a system in place preventing the same thing from ever happening again.
It is completely unacceptable that you've had to wait this long and even though I've only been involved in pre-marathon organizing the prizes and not anything revolving the shipping, I still feel really bad that you guys have ended up in this position.
I don't know what went wrong this year compared to previous years. It was even supposed to be easier this year with the prize donors handling the shipping instead of mike having to do all the packaging and postage himself.
I completely understand your reluctancy to donating prizes to future marathons. It's not fun having your stuff end up in limbo.
The events are only getting bigger and bigger so there's bound to be some growing pains.
The best I can do right now is to locate the growing pains and come up with the proper prescriptions.
I will work towards finding out what can be done to countermeasure this kind of huge delay and see to it so that we have a system in place preventing the same thing from ever happening again.
Keeper of TASBot
Good news - Mike contacted me yesterday with an E-Mail from the person who won the Triforce gauntlets and beanie, but I still haven't received HellaBored's information yet, which implies that Mike is slowly working his way through the list. I suspect that this is something that can and should be handled by someone else so Mike can focus on organizing marathons.
Exoray
To my knowledge you are being reimbursed for the shipping costs if you save the receipt, so that shouldn't be an issue. (At least shipping costs were reimbursed last year. Haven't seen anything about that having changed).
200 dollars however sounds like a ripoff unless you are actually sending something really heavy and cumbersome. I would look for alternatives to UPS if I were you.
200 dollars however sounds like a ripoff unless you are actually sending something really heavy and cumbersome. I would look for alternatives to UPS if I were you.
Any confirmation on shipping reimbursement?
I obviously will try to find a cheaper way to ship the game. I want to make sure it gets there in one piece and doesn't get banged up. There is a lamp in there after all.
I was expecting maybe 50 dollars to ship it, which would be reasonable. Let me look around and I'll get back to all with an update.
I obviously will try to find a cheaper way to ship the game. I want to make sure it gets there in one piece and doesn't get banged up. There is a lamp in there after all.
I was expecting maybe 50 dollars to ship it, which would be reasonable. Let me look around and I'll get back to all with an update.