5th Birthday, April 1 – GIVE prizes & WIN great prizes HERE!

Iggy · **Posted:** Wed Apr 04, 2012 20:33:52 pm

fromdownunder wrote:

Thanks Peter. Correction made, and now

7490 krizzdeburgh

is your winner.

Norm

oops! I've just emailed krizzdeburgh with my gift,
I'll email him back and correct the error.

Lakatoi 4 · **Posted:** Wed Apr 04, 2012 20:34:27 pm

Norm, you are worth your weight in stamps (and I'm not talking Aust. decimal rubbish, more a mixture of Tre Skilling Banco, British Guiana 1c. black on magenta, 1847 Mauritius 1d. & 2d. and a few GB 1d. reds plate 77 and to make up the bulk add a whole lot of first w/mark big value Roo's :!:

).

fromdownunder · **Posted:** Wed Apr 04, 2012 20:46:20 pm

Iggy wrote:

oops! I've just emailed krizzdeburgh with my gift, I'll email him back and correct the error.

Sorry mate, my fault. Let him know that is still on the list, and will definately get an offer. Blame me.

Norm

KevinHedley · **Posted:** Wed Apr 04, 2012 20:48:57 pm

Email sent to LarryD for gift 26.

norvic · **Posted:** Wed Apr 04, 2012 21:30:27 pm

Second email sent to Slayer with better subject line, for gift no 30. He/she was online Monday, but I didn't get back in circulation until Tuesday. His area is due for some snow today and some areas are without power - anybody would think it was winter!

PeterS · **Posted:** Wed Apr 04, 2012 22:02:04 pm

Norm, email sent.

nightwatchman · **Posted:** Wed Apr 04, 2012 22:08:23 pm

Gift 4

Rai in Spain has just contacted me.
I will be sending his gift out in the next couple of days.

LarryD · **Posted:** Thu Apr 05, 2012 00:24:08 am

Many thanks to Kevin Hedley for his e-mail and gift #26!

Kainnikanada · **Posted:** Thu Apr 05, 2012 02:15:41 am

Have sent a query to Clive. Awaiting a reply.

tooler · **Posted:** Thu Apr 05, 2012 02:20:53 am

Norm,
I have sent 4 emails for gift #53 to Kerema, with no response.

AMark · **Posted:** Thu Apr 05, 2012 04:09:56 am

Norm,

Two e-mails have been sent to leon_sellos, regarding gift #41, without any response.

KevinHedley · **Posted:** Thu Apr 05, 2012 05:54:33 am

LarryD wrote:

Many thanks to Kevin Hedley for his e-mail and gift #26!

Will be in the mail this Tuesday, after the Easter weekend.

fromdownunder · **Posted:** Thu Apr 05, 2012 08:25:21 am

1975 gandly Gift 6 fromdownunder

Still no response. To misquote Seifeld, "No more eMails for you"

Norm

Iggy · **Posted:** Thu Apr 05, 2012 17:07:55 pm

1770 Bazzstamps emailed re gift #25. (awaiting reply)

aethelwulf · **Posted:** Thu Apr 05, 2012 18:50:08 pm

Been 'away from the Board' for the most part this week, so just emailed bazzstamps regarding the gift I offered. Bit confused now seeing this message,

Iggy wrote:

1770 Bazzstamps emailed re gift #25. (awaiting reply)

I see #25 in the list was

Quote:

7698 greak Gift 25 Iggy

Global Administrator · **Posted:** Thu Apr 05, 2012 20:23:04 pm

Global Administrator wrote:

Emails sent to my winners -

LAUREN
Franking

Zero responses after 4 days. :roll:

tonyclayton · **Posted:** Thu Apr 05, 2012 21:16:54 pm

email sent to bazzstamps for gift 31

tonyclayton · **Posted:** Thu Apr 05, 2012 21:20:09 pm

I notice with interest that bazzstamps has been fortunate enough to win two prizes.

Not that I'm worried, but I won none!!

Delays in my own quotes as I have been coping with grandchildren in the run up to Easter...

dporter-stamps · **Posted:** Thu Apr 05, 2012 21:34:35 pm

Still no response from Auzzie Learner or johnanne :!:

Time to go to plan B, C, D, ............Z.

Global Administrator · **Posted:** Thu Apr 05, 2012 21:52:17 pm

GlenStephens wrote:

Seeing we have started a new page -

Important Notes folks –

1 - Please post HERE as others have started to do that you HAVE made contact with your gift receiver - we know then that you have done YOUR part. :idea:

2 - When emailing your gift receiver, common sense dictates you MUST add a link to this thread in your email -

http://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=35395

Why? 95% of Winners have zero clue this thread exists, and will assume someone emailing them for their address is a scammer or conman of some kind - and ignore you, and/or delete your email!

And use a heading they will notice, that does NOT appear to be spam!

Sending as heading “Free Gift for You” will be deleted unopened by most folks these days!

I donated prize #1 and the winner was "Lauren" of Nova Scotia Canada, who has 3 posts.

So my email said to her and my other giftee - feel free to copy my wording if you wish -

Heading -

“Lauren - you have won a stamp prize from Stampboards and me - true!”

Text –

Hi Lauren - you may not realise it but you won a stamp prize I donated - prize #1 - in the recent stampboards 5th Birthday competition.

Full details of your prize and the competition is found here -

http://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=35395

Please let me have your best mailing address within 48 hours of this email, and I will mail the prize to you post free.

If I do not hear from you in that 48 hour timeframe, the rules say you are ineligible, so please respond as soon as you can.

Congratulations – and by all means add a note to thread here to indicate you got this email –

http://www.stampboards.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=35395

Thanks, and enjoy your prize for Stampboards Birthday number 5 –

Glen Stephens

This message above was posted several times to assist all members with suitable wording to use.

Clearly not everyone read it or used it.

I was sent an email from one member today who got a hasty 2 line message from someone re his prize, and he literally assumed it was a Nigerian Scammer asking for his address.

Despite the good advice above the heading was simply "Gift xx" - that would be totally meaningless to most members who were not following this thread.

PRECISELY as I predicted above would occur in some instances, if some care was not taken with wording and heading.

C'est la vie.

Glen

norvic · **Posted:** Thu Apr 05, 2012 21:59:53 pm

I can't believe how many people put in bids for prizes and have not responded, whether or not the giver used the suggested wording. Of course there could be many reasons for non-attendance on Stampboards recently, but this is causing far more problems for Norm etc than might have been expected.

I've sent Slayer a 3rd message, this time using the suggested format (although my previous message titles were much more specific than 'Gift xx').

I don't really see why anybody would think the message was a scam, since they all come from Stampboards Admin and not from the giver :?:

fromdownunder · **Posted:** Thu Apr 05, 2012 22:14:19 pm

norvic wrote:

I can't believe how many people put in bids for prizes and have not responded, whether or not the giver used the suggested wording.

Ian, nobody put in bids for Gifts. As was clearly stated at the beginning, the Gifts were being distributed on the basis of random generated numbers provided to me by Gary Brown and went to anybody who has posted on the Board in 2012. The RGN determined who would be a potential winner. Nobody bid for Gifts.

Norm

fromdownunder · **Posted:** Thu Apr 05, 2012 22:26:07 pm

Plan B Part 2 will be posted in the morning, when I am feeling a bit more refreshed. Sorry for the delays. This might finish up longer than Gone With the Wind.

Norm

norvic · **Posted:** Thu Apr 05, 2012 22:26:30 pm

Oh yes, this was the one that we didn't have to put numbers in a number thread for. Thanks for correcting me - a lot has happened since last week

I have sent 3 emails to Slayer but will await official determination as to what I do next.

fromdownunder · **Posted:** Thu Apr 05, 2012 22:31:02 pm

norvic wrote:

I have sent 3 emails to Slayer but will await official determination as to what I do next.

I will do everything tomorrow morning (my time). I have had a helluva week.

Norm

Iggy · **Posted:** Fri Apr 06, 2012 01:33:27 am

1770 bazzstamps - Gift 25 Iggy

bazzstamps has replied to my email and the gift will be posted out on Saturday

(Norm, you've been a star

)

Iggy

janssepa · **Posted:** Fri Apr 06, 2012 06:25:14 am

Being a new member of Stampboard for only a fortnight,I got the message from Stampboard , that I was to receive gift 49 from Wolfgang. I just received the nice German stamp sheets.

A great surprise in a world where everything has its price !
I wish Stampboard all the success for the future.

Paul

jimdotwalker · **Posted:** Fri Apr 06, 2012 06:47:34 am

Hope to see you on Stampboards more often janseppa.

AMark · **Posted:** Fri Apr 06, 2012 07:14:01 am

Gift #40 has been mailed to starling.

Also, a third e-mail has gone out to leon_sellos after not receiving a response to the first two e-mails.

vikingeck · **Posted:** Fri Apr 06, 2012 08:25:43 am

Been away from my desk for 2 weeks on holiday in Spain . Just got back last night and activated my internet again .

I have emailed Stallzer for his address re gift 8 from VIKINGECK

fromdownunder · **Posted:** Fri Apr 06, 2012 11:28:53 am

aethelwulf wrote:

Been 'away from the Board' for the most part this week, so just emailed bazzstamps regarding the gift I offered. Bit confused now seeing this message,

Iggy wrote:

1770 Bazzstamps emailed re gift #25. (awaiting reply)

I see #25 in the list was

Quote:

7698 greak Gift 25 Iggy

Since greak never responded to Iggy in the required timeframe, that gift was reasigned.

Norm

fromdownunder · **Posted:** Fri Apr 06, 2012 11:55:19 am

Thanks for your patience everybody.

Here is the current state of play, with new giftees having been selected from Gary's RNG numbers previously supplied. As far as I know, these are the only outstanding items, but please advise if otherwise.

Could the Donor (all items not in Bold or Bolded Red please contact your NEW winner within 24 hours, and acknowledge same on the Board.

Again, from the left, Membership Number, Winner, Gift Number, Donor.

189 clairwj Gift 1 Glen Stephens
6441 sanjaysub - Gift 4 nightwatchman
6279 ritoras - Gift 6 fromdownunder
541 Clive Willingham - Gift 12 Kainnikanada
1770 bazzstamps - Gift 13 Feebletodix
7490 krizzdeburgh - Gift 22 Peter S
1770 bazzstamps - Gift 25 Iggy
2576 LarryD - Gift 26 KevinHedley
Gift 8 vikingeck (deferred as eMail only sent recently)
1982 DK - Gift 27 KevinHedley
1235 Trent - Gift 29 dporter-stamps
7288 letuspray - Gift 30 norvic
169 RolyRJ - Gift 35 Machaggis52
1708 Nick777VVV - Gift 36 alexproskurin
5496 guitare1 - Gift 41 AMark
Gift 44 simply-goodies (deferred - only eMailed recently)
6144 clydet - Gift 45 stampy12
Gift 47 Blackpepper (deferred - only eMailed recently)
6507 bluegrass - Gift 50 dporter-stamps
7747 Robert1 - Gift 51 Glen Stephens
1867 Gonzo45 - Gift 53 tooler
190 demetrios - Gift 55 jennys
1675 beardmore10 - Gift 60 1stStamp
7530 maxtra09 - Gift 63 Brummie

Let me know if this does not make sense.

Norm

tooler · **Posted:** Fri Apr 06, 2012 13:21:40 pm

Email sent to Gonzo45

Global Administrator · **Posted:** Fri Apr 06, 2012 13:49:51 pm

189 clairwj Gift 1 - Glen Stephens - (email sent)
7747 Robert1 - Gift 51 - Glen Stephens - (he responded)

fromdownunder · **Posted:** Fri Apr 06, 2012 13:59:51 pm

eMail to Ritoras for Gift 6 sent, using Glen's template.

Norm

Brummie · **Posted:** Fri Apr 06, 2012 14:25:39 pm

Email sent to maxtra09 (fingers crossed).

KevinHedley · **Posted:** Fri Apr 06, 2012 15:34:56 pm

Message sent to DK

fromdownunder · **Posted:** Fri Apr 06, 2012 15:49:55 pm

Thanks people. Lets finish this and let me get back to the Footy.

Norm

Feebletodix · **Posted:** Fri Apr 06, 2012 17:49:11 pm

Hey Norm

Get a good nights sleep and come back refreshed.

For the third time, kgV nut has been emailed, and the gift has been sent. I am just asking him to contact this thread and confirm.

Err, if I did as you suggest in your latest plan, that would have been three gifts for bazzstamps. :shock:

Feebletodix

stampy12 · **Posted:** Fri Apr 06, 2012 18:23:47 pm

Email sent to clydet (last visit 29th of March 2012, so looks a bit more promising)

I just want to personally say that you all really put your time and effort in trying to make these things happen and as a member of stamp boards i really appreciate it. You do A great Job, Thankyou

-Bradley Fechner

ritoras · **Posted:** Fri Apr 06, 2012 18:35:50 pm

Hello!

Apparently I have won prize #1 (the 4 Gandhi covers)!!!!

What a lovely surprise to wake up to this morning. Thank you Norm for your gift. It will go straight into the collection!

Happy Birthday stampboards and congratulations to all for making it such an invaluable source. I have to humbly admit that, all I have ever done is post a few posts on the 'Please help me' section, so I may not be the most deserving of winners...

Nonetheless, I am very grateful!

Thank you!

Adrian

fromdownunder · **Posted:** Fri Apr 06, 2012 18:52:54 pm

Feebletodix wrote:

Err, if I did as you suggest in your latest plan, that would have been three gifts for bazzstamps. :shock:

Feebletodix

Possibly. I'm not perfect.

Norm

fromdownunder · **Posted:** Fri Apr 06, 2012 19:02:24 pm

ritoras wrote:

Hello!

Apparently I have won prize #1 (the 4 Gandhi covers)!!!!

What a lovely surprise to wake up to this morning. Thank you Norm for your gift. It will go straight into the collection!

Happy Birthday stampboards and congratulations to all for making it such an invaluable source. I have to humbly admit that, all I have ever done is post a few posts on the 'Please help me' section, so I may not be the most deserving of winners...

Nonetheless, I am very grateful!

Thank you!

Adrian

Sorry Adrian, actually you won prize #6, which was my Gift. Mea Culpa. I used Glen's template and obviously missed one edit. I hope you enjoy your prize, I have your mailing address and will post straight after Easter.

Norm

Feebletodix · **Posted:** Fri Apr 06, 2012 19:04:59 pm

Norm,

For the sterling work you have done here I would like to say thankyou.

I believe you are a whole world collector, do you have a cut off date or are modern GB of interest?

So if they are, let me have your postal address I will pop into the PO and get some commemoratives for you, otherwise post up a list of your GB wants and I will see if I can find something to fill a gap.

Regards

Feebletodix

vikingeck · **Posted:** Fri Apr 06, 2012 19:23:55 pm

Message from VIKINGECK re gift 8.

Contact established with Stallzer, who has replied with address. gift winging its way from me to him today . All OK ! ( postal services permitting !)

Vikingeck

PeterS · **Posted:** Fri Apr 06, 2012 19:25:11 pm

Iggy wrote:

fromdownunder wrote:

Thanks Peter. Correction made, and now

7490 krizzdeburgh

is your winner.

Norm

oops! I've just emailed krizzdeburgh with my gift,
I'll email him back and correct the error.

Iggy, did you get any response? I sent my email at around 10pm on Wednesday. It is now 6:20pm Friday.

I think krizzdeburgh is a bust, Norm. Why don't we just make it 2 sets for Round 3 in the footy tipping and leave it at that?

Iggy · **Posted:** Fri Apr 06, 2012 20:03:34 pm

PeterS wrote:

Iggy, did you get any response? I sent my email at around 10pm on Wednesday. It is now 6:20pm Friday.

Peter, no response from krizzdeburgh. But I didn't expect one as I emailed straight away to let him know about my error, so to forget about my "winning" email and await one from PeterS,

Iggy

dporter-stamps · **Posted:** Fri Apr 06, 2012 21:20:41 pm

emails sent to both Trent & bluegrass.

I will be away for Easter from this evening, Friday 6th until Sunday 8th (UK time)

AMark · **Posted:** Fri Apr 06, 2012 23:18:57 pm

E-mail sent to guitare1.

tonyclayton · **Posted:** Fri Apr 06, 2012 23:26:32 pm

tonyclayton wrote:

I notice with interest that bazzstamps has been fortunate enough to win two prizes.

Not that I'm worried, but I won none!!

Delays in my own quotes as I have been coping with grandchildren in the run up to Easter...

I see that total has risen to three! Congratulations bazzstamps :mrgreen:


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