International Secret Santa

you have a known flaker in your swaps @tazwoman .. she has flaked on multiple children and adults.. some from 6 months ago that she has yet to make up for and 1 recent 1 where the host was kind enough to give her a chance and got flaked on by @tazwoman She keeps deleting her profile comments and every time she signs up for swaps and gets banned and told to make up her swaps first, she simply signs up for a bunch more. So I thought you and your participants should know who has signed up for this swap in case it was missed in the participants list.

no have already banned her shes well known flaker

@sosiejude do you mind letting me know if I am too newbie to sign up for your swap? Thanks in advance.

This sounds fab, looking forward to it :)

@thegypsie ...no your fine to join the swap thanks for asking

Would love to join-this soun d SuperbQ. I'm a newbie, but I have 3 swaps completed with 3 hearts-I havew sent my last two in-one to Hong Kong and the other to New York. I Am NOT a Flaker, and I always go way beyond what is expected of me. I have received special notes from the people I have sent to telling me how delighted they were with packages received. Please let me know if you would let me join this swap. Thanks, Nancy K

I can vouch for Nancy K ...she is my mom~! My sister and I have been swapping for a couple of years now and we both have excellent profiles and we just got mom to join ius in our happy swapping. If you will make an exception for her, I can guarantee that the receiver will be well pleased with what she sends~!

I just joined this one as well. I love international swaps...can't wait to see who my patner is so I can get going on it~!

oops I accidentally joined before realizing I haven't a rating as of yet...I have already mailed two swaps out and about to mail my third...i promise not to be a flaker and will mail gift out as soon as I am assigned a partner...I have swapped on other sites for years with no negative ratings...just new to this site...let me know...many thanks

I too signed up this past weekend, not realizing I wasn't qualified! I hope I can do this swap. I am new, I have already mailed out 2 swaps this week, I have been doing swaps for 8 years now, on other groups, mainly scrapbooking where I had to make things, this one is easy, it involves shopping, something I am very good at! I promise whomever I am lucky enough to send to, wont be disappointed! International is great! Please consider allowing me to remain on this swap!

I am happy to be assigned a newer member as my swap partner if you are concerned with the lack of ratings where they are new. I am sure there will be no flaking in this swap as it is such a nice one. I am equally sure that those who have made comments above are very genuine.

Kind regards Helen (bluedaisy1)

Thanks Helen! I can't imagine anyone flaking on this swap, it is going to be so fun! Have a great day, Esther

This is an awesome idea! I would like to join, please. C:

idea is good, but as far as I know, customs open everything INSIDE parcel.. but if this idea is for not opening PARCEL - it's ok ...

ja sam prvi put ucesnik pa vas molim za razumevanje .volim da ucestvujem na swap i da sticem nove prijatelje. I am a first time participant and ask you to understand. I like to participate in

But 5 pounds is only = 8USD.

Hi, I am new--I'd love to take part in this swap but after reading the above comments, don't want to cause anyone a problem because I am new! Let me know what you'd like me to do...

Please note that the swap requirements are set by the hostess and it is polite to abide by them and not join if you do not qualify. Just a heads up!! ;) Pat

Please note that the swap requirements are set by the hostess and it is polite to abide by them and not join if you do not qualify. Just a heads up!! ;) Pat

WOW - I will watch for awhile after reading all the newbie notes. I get flaked on more at Christmas than any other time of the year. And, yes, I have been flaked on in a Secret Santa swap, a filled stocking swap, and a 24 days of Christmas swap. It seems there is always a thief who wants something for nothing.

Okay - No. 1. I did not mean for that to sound like all newbies were flakers. I know better.

And, No. 2 - I do consider flakers to be thieves.

Also, No.3 - I adore coordinators who have strict rules and stick to them.

Hi I am happy to join to this swap pleas if you can, sum countries dose not have relation with my country, I will be happy to have partner that can sent to Israel.

Phew, so many comments to read! For anyone that does NOT meet the requirement, I would watch it for now-- You have a few weeks to meet the requirement! And @ahuva partners are assigned randomly by the computers, just so you know :)

If you send something wrapped in order for your partner to put it away for Christmas....how does one rate? Do you rate just based on receiving it? Just curious.

@tintenn you would rate a at least five when swap is received then after opening your gift you can go back and rerate if needed.

Hi, i've the same question as @tintenn too.. how do you rate for this one ?

In looking at the participants I notice quite a few people with recent ones or threes. I really want to do this swap but I'm hesitant of being flaked on especially when the description says no recent 1's or 3's.

Hey everyone, I just signed up; I'm now getting back to swapping in Swap-Bot after a couple of years break, and I'm not sure what is your take on this. I hope I can play! I did take part in bigger swaps when I was active in 2008, and always sent my packages even though I was partnered with a couple of flakers.. :/ I have one 1 from the same year, which was a misunderstanding.

I'm now in the process of updating my profile, 99% of it is up-to-date already.

Now yes any newbies that have not followed the guide lines to the swap better either unjoin the swap as you wont qualify . Also i am not accepting any swappers who have recent 1's or 3's in last 6months . This is a expensive swap for some people and they sure dont want to be flaked ,i wouldnt woul;d you.... I will be doing another in November so those newbies who want to join but dont qualify then maybe get your swapping done beofre then! Feel free to ask questions but guidelines i have put in are to be followed thanks judex

Excellent Jude thank you for clarifying that! Count me in!!!

@sosiejude I have one question. Gift wrappings might be damaged by customs. Packages are checked randomly but mine was checked a few times as I been told by my partners. Should my partner rate me 3 in this cause?

When customs open packets they have to by law leave as they found ie seal back up .so this shouldnt be a problem

@sosiejude thank you :)

You are having more than one secret santa swap before the holidays?

Why on earth did you drop me for having insufficient type 3 ratings when I have 67 of them. That is way over the requirement and I have no recent poor ratings either.

i'm on same page as Net :(

sorry @Net3811 @ChantalB your not on same page as net the rules for swap say 15 type 3

YOU MUST HAVE TYPE3 15 swaps ...UN-cat doesnt count sorry but this year toughened up as lots lost out last year to flakers .Before you all go off on one we dont know whos gonna flake thats why ive increased the rules this year. Net have un bannned you my mistake hunni sorry

Thanks Jude! I really enjoyed this swap last year so delighted to be back in.

I have been banned for not having 15x type 3 as well. I thought that only applied to newbies - I have been swapping here for years with good feedback, all five and mostly with hearts. Hope you can check my profile and add me back in! This could be a mistake as you have so many profiles to check! Thanks.

thanx for dropping me i am clearing all things out and never flake but§ oh well there will be other swaps i guess

People like Evitake have actually done lots of Type 3 swaps - its just that 'types' were only introduced relatively recently, so long-term swappers have lots of 'uncategorised' swaps instead. But you can still tell from the ratings that they are actually from 'package' type swaps, which would now be classed as 'Type 3'....

oops sorry, I didn't mean Evitake, I meant debferguson...

Thanks Kessie. I really want to take part in this but am having no luck. As you said, I've been swapping for years and parcels were not categorised but 98% of my swaps have been parcels as my ratings state. Thanks for the support!