I try to be patient, but it's a little frustrating when the winner of a one hour GA decides to take a four day break from the site...
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Well, yeah it's frustrating, but they have every right to do that. It's not their problem it only lasted an hour.
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It's not a big deal and I know it's within their rights, I just think it's weird to be entering GAs and then all of a sudden not check the site for days. But maybe they had a perfectly good excuse; I didn't bother to ask.
I'm not really trying to start an argument on GA etiquette or anything. I just bumped with whatever came to mind.
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I waited for a 1 hour long giveaway to reroll at 7 days yeah it's a bit annoying. Especially when it is going to give you a level.
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I try to be available and timely when it comes to receiving gifts. I don't like to keep people waiting unnecessarily, so any delays are on the person doing the giving, not on me.
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Well, usually I also mark it within12 hours, but sometimes you just can't get online for whatever reason.
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thankfully i have not had to deal with a situation like that yet ^_^
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I've two kinda cases, really. Not so much along the same lines though.
In one scenario had one game. Posted on, and later edited, about a 12 hour delay in delivering the key (I'd gone to sleep early, forgetting about it, and didn't get back on until much later). They'd activated it a couple hours later, noted having checked before & after. Marked as received, no biggie. Week later, game still on their account, changed to not received. Post had been edited by then, and attempts to contact yielded nothing. Reported, and waited. Nearly two months later, or maybe more, I got bored of waiting, ticket still open, but magically it was marked as received again. No sign of suspension on their end or anything, so no idea there. Kinda, rudeness without even being able to contact them.
In another scenario, one winner was away for a week entering GA's on phone. When they found out they'd won, they'd left a message informing me of that, and since it was a gift, they didn't mind if I selected a new winner, and that they wouldn't be around for about a week to be able to receive it. No problem, waited the week and sent them their game. A happy ending where politeness actually did pay off kinda, not even a single "wait until I'm back" -esque style thing.
Never really had any problems otherwise. Maybe I'm just lucky in that regard, or maybe its because I am online most days, even if sick. I get "sick" often in different ways, not just the atypical cold or such, but still find some way to actually get online, helps that computer is barely two meters away from bed during those sick days.
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What I find irritating is that people do not click received when they are online
Happens to me a few times that people wait a few days but are online during that time on SG
For me it means sometimes that I cant create a new giveaway
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Yeah, that's kind of annoying as well. I for one just mark it as soon as I have the key (so the first time I come online after the key is send).
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but what can you do about it for example one person got online 5 times today but didnt click received :( Very frustrating
And the worst thing some winners activated the game they won already
I completly understand people dont have time cause of work or sickness
But if you got the time to activate the game you also have the time to click received
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Thanks for the train and thank sg that I haven't had what happened to you... yet ><
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Well, I think this stuff is pretty rare (even rarer that someone actually apologizes), so I hope you won't have to deal with it.
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I have had only few such cases and I let them wait until the end of the seventh day to send their gift. As per SG rules I have seven days to send the gift and the funny thing is that the few that tried to push me around to send their gifts ASAP are some that are finger pointing on the SG discussions to other SG users about petty and minor things like calling out and trading outside the trade forums.
I find this very funny indeed that on the one hand they are nagging/finger pointing about minor SG rules breaking while when they win a giveaway that they forget that the giveaway creator has 7 days to send the gift to the winner. ^ ^
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Pointing out that someone is doing something that is against the rule is not really finger pointing. I think it's good to warn people if they do something that is not allowed, since not everyone may be aware in certain cases.
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You don't get my point in my case; those that send out these warnings are the same that don't know or forgot that I have by SG rules 7 days to deliver the gifts.
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A couple of days ago I was pretty sick, so I didn't check my pc. When I got back I saw I won two games. Obviously I activated both and left a thank you on both GA's. So a bit later I saw that I got a reaction to one of my thanks messages. I thought, cool someone bothered to congratulate me. But he wrote this:
Now, it's not that bad on it's own, but then I checked my email and saw a mail from a while after the GA ended, saying that I should mark it as received before a certain time (I was sick, so I missed it), not even stating a timezone or whatever.
I was kind of surprised by this behaviour to be honest. Anyone else had a similar experience?
I only wrote this of course since I wanted to make a little train, so here you go (LVL 2+):
Hop on!
EDIT:
The GA creator appologized for his reaction to me and also cleared up that he send the email after 32 hours (while my mail said it was earlier, so somewhere that fucked up). I'm glad it was resolved this way.
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