What about two people running secret santa, but with the same amount of people last allowed to participate last year? I understand that all of us are good to a certain degree for policing ourselves and this isn’t any sort of criticism over Valaris’ ability to organize this (because man you are doing great), but with so many people perhaps it’ll be neat to divy it up between two people looking over one half of the participants each. Just me rambling a bit. If it was smooth last year then fuck my suggestion.
The other suggestion is to get people to find out about their postal services and shipping services. How reliable they are and what other alternatives could result in no “lost in the mail” presents or presents coming up in late Jan. I know it’s way off for SS, but at the same time perhaps some people are eager to do this but sometimes their holiday schedule makes it hard to make time for SRKSS even though they really want to do good. If possible, people who know what they are doing this year or know how crazy busy they can be, should consider if they can really participate.
As for the caps, perhaps item specific caps.
$50 max for most items.
If you want to buy a game for someone, go right ahead. However don’t go insane with like a collector’s set box (unless I guess the guy is a super enthusiast).
Only exceed the cap is it’s worth the upgrade to a better item and/or it isn’t ridiculously out of range of $50 value. I.e. why get this version for $45 when the next version up is only $68 and better?
One year I would love to see a DIY/custom Srk Secret Santa thing. No buying, all creation.
Orangecat; I won’t divide the entries up per se but I have people giving me a hand this year.
I’ll be honest I’m surprised about the Cap request. I mean do people feel that their package was lessened by someone else something bigger? I just don’t see why some people (such as myself) couldn’t splurge on someone because we enjoy it. But that’s just me.
That’s typically what I do, especially if my recipient is in the US. Buying from Amazon.com (or .ca if the recipient is Canadian) and having them ship it saves on shipping costs and gets your gift nicely wrapped by Amazon themselves. It’s great.
Dr. B ships worldwide, for free, but only to those of pure hearts and a reasonable level of Mad Sexiness.
I think anyone interested in ss is most likely mature enough to not get their feelings hurt just because they didn’t spend as much as someone I mean who really cares? if someone is willing to spend more then he has to why not let him/her?
I support the general interest idea forcing us to be creative:tup:
However is there is a cap instituted I think it should be $50 minimum $100 maximum. Better yet make a poll and let SRK decide what if any min/max should be:tup:
Well it goes both ways sometimes. I don’t think that people are jealous or feel bad about spending less for their recipient. But I think even the giftee might feel a bit guilty. I know some of my friends feel bad about accepting gifts from me around Xmas if they in turn didn’t get me anything, mainly because they have a habit of “agreeing to exchange gifts” with whoever. People might feel guilty because of a “Why do I deserve this special gift?”
Now considering this a Secret Santa on a board of video game enthusiasts and fighting game enthusiasts (with a lot of them being adults in their 30s now), a lot complete with their own custom sticks and make an annual fighting game pilgrimage to fighting game mecca; expense doesn’t seem that insane considering how expensive our united hobby is. However I can probably propose this as a “halfway meeting point”
Ideal max is $50. You can go over but use good judgement.
You can do $100 but $100 total for the entire exchange. That means shipping costs included into that $100 limit.
If you want to make it special, then no limit…but this isn’t splurge santa. It’s easy to overwhelm someone with tons of gifts but the emphasis is knowing your fellow SRK members and getting something special for them. If you want no limit, whatever you get them has to be “custom” made. Your own personal flare, your own talents, somebody else’s commissioned talents whatever. It could be a pasta sculpture of Megaman or a porcelain statuette of Chun-Li with diamond studded bra.
These are just suggestions but I’m just tossing out ideas that might or might not be the middle route for people who want or don’t want a price cap.
I guess for me it’s like if someone bought a $10 picture frame and painted some SF characters on it or something and stuck a picture of us from evo in it, I would appreciate that much more than the $65 latest Call of Duty or whatever that I could just buy myself if I wanted
I do think there needs to be a minimum, but $50 will probably too much since everyone isn’t baller and might keep good members out of the SS. $30 seems like a good min, you can find a decent present/reduced priced game for that amount so very few people will feel cheated, but still is a reasonable amount.
$50 is good for a max, but if there’s alot of people who want to spend(and recieve) better presents, then you can put them into their own bracket and there wouldn’t be any complaints.
Minimum sure, but a Max is dumb. I spent around 100 plus last year and i didn’t even get anything cause I missed sign ups. I just wanted to do something nice for someone i didn’t know.
I think the Min and Max may come from those SS’s who feel “cheated” for example one SS goes all out on gifts ($100 plus) to his recipient only to recieve a $30 dollar gift in return.
I think in the entry form should include as to what one can willing afford and matched up that way (max you willing to spend on a gift)
I don’t think there should be a max or a bracket for people wanting to spend different amounts. I think one of the awesome things about srk ss is the mystery of it all. and if people want to go above and beyond why should we stop them? thinking about others is what the season is about. i think SRKers should expect that some of the members here can only afford the min. so if you don’t want the possibilities of feelings getting hurt then don’t participate.
