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Swap organizing frustrations.	Jul. 25th, 2007 @ 11:04 am

So. It's the LAST DAY to ship for the "Swap for our Mom's" swap on Craftster. I had a small group, and I thought this would be good for me as a first-time organizer, but it's proved to only give me headaches!

1. Sign-ups started while I was out in MI and crossed over my coming home. In the middle of all that, SA and I had to deal with TWO "floods". I'd constantly post updates to where I was so people knew when I was unavailable and why they weren't signed up yet, and still people complained that I wasn't adding people to the list fast enough.

2. The end date for sign-ups was June 30th. I told people they'd have their partners by the morning of July 1. Apparently, this also wasn't good enough an someone complained that they wanted their partner on June 30. I know NO swap that has that fast of a turn around for issuing partners.

3. Someone shipped early, because they needed the feedback to do another swap, and it just so happened that I was also shutting down my website viewings to read HP. She complained that I "needed to be around". I spoke to a mod, who told me that it was fine I was gone since I told the group and there's no rule that says feedback has to be listed right away. THEN, this girl tries to get her feedback out of me based on DC saying "delivered", and that's not how we do things unless it's been like a week of nothing out of their partner. Their partner HAS to tell the organizer when they get thier package.

4. Several of my members live in countries whose POSTAL SYSTEM has gone on strike! (Israel and UK). However, I cannot find information to verify either strike online.

5. Shipping is today and I haven't heard ANYTHING out of at least half my swapees.

Oi!

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