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General and Gaming => General => Topic started by: soera on September 27, 2022, 11:58:43 am
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Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages ... VGCollect proudly brings to you its SECRET SANTA of the world!
***Copying and pasting last years rules***
If you want to participate this year, please post your name on this thread. I want people to have been members of these forums for at least 3 months prior to this and some sort of activity here. We have had 9 years so far of 100% success and we are not going to fail this year! Sign ups will be up through 10/11. Once its done, you have a week to send me your wish list, address info, and what not. Also include if you are willing to send out of your own country cause every year we get non US participants.
When you reply on this thread, post what you think the spending limit should be. I will take the most popular option and that's what we will go with. And since I'm mentioning it ... if the limit is $100 (an example) please don't send someone $10 worth of crap. The limit is more of a guideline as to what to expect to spend. Almost everyone here the past few years has went over the limit for their participant. Within the time of sending in the wish lists, if the limit becomes more than you want to spend, let me know and I can remove you from the list. No hard feelings will be had.
Every year we have a reveal thread and IIRC, Kashell/Dash/Turf and a few others actually do theirs on their YouTube page. If you wish to wait to open your gift until Christmas, that is definitely your prerogative. However, I would like to ask that no one posts anything about their stuff until after Christmas.
Links to the last 9 years :
2013 - https://vgcollect.com/forum/index.php/topic,4178.0.html
2014 - https://vgcollect.com/forum/index.php/topic,5554.0.html
2015 - https://vgcollect.com/forum/index.php/topic,6559.0.html
2016 - https://vgcollect.com/forum/index.php/topic,7734.0.html
2017 - https://vgcollect.com/forum/index.php/topic,8571.0.html
2018 - https://vgcollect.com/forum/index.php/topic,9354.0.html
2019 - https://vgcollect.com/forum/index.php/topic,10417.0.html
2020 - https://vgcollect.com/forum/index.php/topic,11096.0.html
2021 - https://vgcollect.com/forum/index.php/topic,11567.0.html
Please mention one of 4 options for gift receiving. 1- Please only go off of wish list 2- Use wish list if can but willing to accept items not in collection 3- Wish list is just a suggestion. Any and all gifts welcome (as long as not duplicates, decent condition, meets spending minimum) 4- Will not mind anything!
If you are late sending me your wish list, expect to be lumped into the 3 or 4 category or going to be bumped off the list all together.
Year #10 baby! Lets make this one memorable.
1. Soera
2. Redblaze57 - Shipped - Received
3. Justin8301 - Shipped - Received
4. Telly - Shipped - Received
5. Cartagia - Shipped - Received
6. Kashell - Shipped - Received
7. NickAwesome - Shipped - Received
8. Koemo1 - Shipped - Received
9. Jason - Shipped - Received
10. Masamune - Shipped - Received
11.Puddingm - Shipped - Received
12. Ignition365 - Shipped - Received
And with that, we are closed! A dozen participants isn't too bad imo.
Okay, you have 1 week to send me your wishlist and shipping info (please include that ... It's a struggle to try to get it later). Re-read the bolded section when you are sending in your info. Lets get this party started.
Pairings are done! You have 3 weeks to get your gift and once mailed, update me with shipment info. Enjoy!!!
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It's been A while... I'm in
$60's okay
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Yea im in. $100 is fine with me but i think most years we went with 50?
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Incredible that this will mark the 10th year of VGC Secret Santa! Sign me up please! :) I think we did $60 last year, which I'm okay with.
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I'm in again. I think we went with $60 last year? But I might be misremembering.
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Yay! I'm definitely in again. $60 sounds good to me!
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European representation at 60$ is fine :)
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I'm in like sin. 60 is fine! Option 1.
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Let's do this!! I can't believe it's this time again already...
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Slowly coming along!
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Just finished pruning my wishlist and picked out some games :) Looking forward to kicking things off soon!
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I'm also putting on finishing touches to my wish list.
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I'm in this year again as well.
A $60 budget sounds good to me.
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Am in this year [after a long break] :D
Ok with the $60usd limit :D
International postal service has improved here ;D
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Welcome back!
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You know what. Throw me in. I regretted not taking part last year. Any price is good with me, just no glitter.
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Okay people, participants are set. You got 1 week for wish lists.
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Okay people, participants are set. You got 1 week for wish lists.
thanks! :)
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This is gonna be fun as always!
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Wishlist and address sent!
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Info sent, soera!
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Still curating!
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Okay people, participants are set. You got 1 week for wish lists.
Still missing some lists. 2 days to go!
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Okay people, participants are set. You got 1 week for wish lists.
Still missing some lists. 2 days to go!
My list has been sent.
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List has been sent sorry for the wait
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List sent! Apologies for the delay!
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List sent :)
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Okay! All lists are in!!!! Going to do the pairing in just a moment. Will update when done.
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So exciting! Have fun everyone! :)
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The time has come!
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Here we go!
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My favorite part!
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Time grab those Tootsie Rolls
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Pairings are done. You have 3 weeks to secure a gift for your giftee. Once you do and it is mailed, update me with shipment info.
Lets get this party started!!!!
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I'm really excited about the stuff I've gathered for my SS so far. I hope they like it!
Right now I'm waiting on a few things to arrive in the mail.
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Let the scavage hunt start :)
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Are we going to try to gather online again this year?
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I would definitely be down! One of my favorite aspects of doing Secret Santa!
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As always I'm down to join as well.
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Nice. We'll hash out the details as it gets closer. It's not even November yet and I'm already excited.
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I'm nearly done for my person. I've got one thing in hand, another I need to go pick up (already paid), and decide if I want to go for a third or maybe tootsies?
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I'm also nearing the end. I'm going to wait a week or before shipping.
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Finished my local shopping today. Now to wait on things to arrive!
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Kashell and I met up yesterday and had a lovely dinner then we hit up a used game store here in Indy. :) Got everything picked out for my recipient!
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Damn, that would have been cool. I'm envious!
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Waiting on final item to arrive for my recipient.
Hopefully it will get here by the end of the week.
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Well then... my package came in from my Santa today. :o
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That was fast!
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Well then... my package came in from my Santa today. :o
Can you resist the urge?
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Well then... my package came in from my Santa today. :o
Can you resist the urge?
I almost took a peek but didn't xD Will have to wait until we open on stream!
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I have sent my package out!!
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I received a package today that has "Kashell" in the name. I'm guessing this is my SS package! Let the countdown to open it begin.
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Still waiting for one Item that just shipped today. Should have it out next weekend.
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I am waiting on one more item for my recipient and then I will be able to ship- planning to send by this weekend.
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I remember tpugmire always recommended sending stuff out as soon as possible because shipping times will start getting crazy soon.
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I do believe I have recieved mine. I personally don't know anyone from the State on the return address and It's got santa wrapping on it so I asume it's a safe bet.
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At last, after much hassle with the post office, and new regulations regarding sending packages to the United States, I have sent it out :)
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I have also sent mine out and I hope it arrives safely!
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I'll be out of town first week of December. In case folks are starting to think of a date for a livestream opening.
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Front page updated!!!! If you aren't marked as shipped, let me know what's up.
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Looking good so far!
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Just received a notice from the Dutch customs office that my package has arrived in the Netherlands. Just payed 20 euros import duties to have it released. Hope to receive it one of the upcoming days!
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Should we start discussing a time to hang out and open things? I know for me the only week in December that's going to work for me is the first week, maybe that can be our starting point?
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So the week of 12/4? I'm good for that. It would be great to see everyone.
Also, I'm surprised no one has opened up their stuff yet.
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The only thing that gives me pause is the delayed delivery of my last gift (almost a week past expected delivery date), but I could always pack up and send what I have and send the last thing whenever it arrives with a note.
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So the week of 12/4? I'm good for that. It would be great to see everyone.
Also, I'm surprised no one has opened up their stuff yet.
That sounds really early, tbh
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The holiday season has been in full-force as soon as Halloween ended. If anything, it's really late.
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The holiday season has been in full-force as soon as Halloween ended. If anything, it's really late.
Your holiday season starts after halloween?
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'Murica is stupid. Wal-mart and all these retail places are just anxious AF to get that Christmas stuff on the shelves.
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The holiday season has been in full-force as soon as Halloween ended. If anything, it's really late.
Your holiday season starts after halloween?
lmao holiday season started here well before halloween. I was looking for halloween stuff in early october, like first week and all halloween stuff was relegated to an end cap so they could put out christmas stuff.
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Yeah. Our circus of a country (at least this small section of it) wants to get as much out of Christmas as possible. Holiday decorations/shit were put every-freaking-where on November 1st.
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Well, I will be the first to admit that it's me being selfish for proposing an earlier time than usual. ;D Totally understand if we can't make that work.
Latest I could do is Sunday the 11th. After that no joke I will have choir rehearsals and concerts every day from 7-10pm until the 23rd :-[ So there really isn't another option for me. But given how limited that is, I'm totally fine if I have to sit out this year.
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I'd rather do it earlier anyway. Kick off the month the right way!
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I am waiting on one more item for my recipient and then I will be able to ship- planning to send by this weekend.
Any update on this?
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For us the Christmas period only starts on the 6th of December, when Sinterklaas returns to Spain.
However, I could sideline the tradition for a year :)
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I received a package in the mail :)
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Only one more person needs to ship.
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Only one more person needs to ship.
Two according to the first post.
My package arrived today.
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Curious if anyone has opened anything yet. Or is everyone waiting for/after the zoom call?
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I opened the package just to check to see if things were wrapped, and check gift shape (3DS, Switch, etc) because there were some lightning deals I wanted to pick up, but that's it.
There are some loose goodies, but I only saw one thing and immediately closed my eyes lol
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What do y'all think about streaming an opening on next Friday, the 9th?
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That 9th works for me!
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If I can I'll join in on that.
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Works for me, too!
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Let's pencil it in, folks. Will Telly be setting it up again??
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I'm down to join as always.
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Will try to join as well, but it depends on the time :)
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Last year we did 9 EST. Does that work for everyone?
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So 8:00 central time. Yeah, that works for me.
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I should be able to make it!!!!
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Also - 100% shipped notifications!
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Also - 100% shipped notifications!
Nice!!
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Excellent!!
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package received!
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Got mine too!
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W00t.
Who's gonna be there this Friday?
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Speaking of Friday, I can't remember - did someone stream Zoom to Twitch? I know very little about how to use Twitch personally :-[
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I unfortunately wont be available this Friday, but I look forward to watching the stream later this weekend! Hope you guys have lots of fun!
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I can stream to Twitch again.
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Okay great. :) If anyone else wants to join let me know and I will message everyone a zoom link on Friday!
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I'll try my best to be there on Friday!
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Can't wait!
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Well, turns out the GF made crazy plans for us this weekend (she is having surgery next week and this is our last weekend to do anything fun for 2 months) so I will not be online for this. I hope I get a chance to watch it eventually though!
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Understandable - have fun and wishing her a swift recovery!
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Sent you all a message with the Zoom information. Let me know if you didn't receive it or have any questions and I will see you all tonight! Get excited! :)
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Sent you all a message with the Zoom information. Let me know if you didn't receive it or have any questions and I will see you all tonight! Get excited! :)
Excited to do this!
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Will be streaming around 8pm CT (in about ten minutes) at www.twitch.tv/ignition365
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! That was super fun, as always. It was great to see everyone.
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Just watched the stream - great to see all the unwrapping 8)
@koemo1 - re the SS parcel from you has arrived - just in US instead of NZ directly :P - my second message about the shipping was accidentally missed by soera & didn't know you are my SS until I received the tracking from soera a few days ago - so I will "officially" receive the SS parcel at a later date with my other packages in US ::). Hope you liked the package from my side - tried to have a variety in there :). Sorry to hear the "customs hit" though for the package - did mark it as "gift" but assumed it went over the threshold (whatever that was?) :-[.
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Had a really nice time with everyone yesterday. :) My Santa gifted me with truly a menagerie of goodies! I was given a really cute boo plush, the nicest set of playing cards I've ever had, a handmade Smash TV arcade cab, some awesome GameInformer magazines to browse through, a bunch of movies to watch with my wife (she said Catching Fire is incredible!). A really interesting CD from a harpist duo (I read some of the insert on stream not knowing it was from Twilight) xD
But of course we have to talk about the games! I was gifted Donkey Kong Country 1 + 2 and a Spider Man game on the SNES. I haven't booted up my SNES in so long since I don't have a lot of games for it so I'm really excited to try these :) I also received Live A Live and Metroid Dread on the Switch, two games that I've wanted to play for a long time. Lastly was Mass Effect Legendary edition, another set of games I've never played but have always wanted to try!
Santa, thank you thank you thank you! :D
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If you didn't watch the stream, then I'll let folks know here: my SS did a fan-friggin'-tastic job. My signature shows the new games I got: Astria Ascending, Tales of Arise, Doki Doki Literature Club, and The Diofield Chronicle. All for my PlayStation 5.
On top of that, I got really adorable Kirby plushie and a book about Earthbound that I can't wait to read through.
Thanks again, SS. I'm thrilled with all of these new goodies and options.
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Glad everyone had a good time. Hopefully someone recorded it and can let me watch it.
In other words - 100% completed!
10 years of 100% success. This has been a great time for me ... but it may be my last one to host. Lots of life changes going on and (depending on how everything goes from here on out) I may be stepping out of the game collecting life. Will continue to support the few series I like but other than that, I am considering seriously backing off everything else. :)
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Thanks again for everything, soera! :) Hoping we can change your mind next year!
Sorry I missed out on the stream... glad that it went well though!
Thanks so much to my SS for the wonderful gifts! It was the perfect collection of Kirby stuff, retro games, retro strategy guide with poster, and with an unexpected soundtrack as well. Lots to keep me busy in the year again!
Thanks again everybody! :) Hoping 2023 treats everyone well!
Edit: appended gift list
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Just watched the stream - great to see all the unwrapping 8)
@koemo1 - re the SS parcel from you has arrived - just in US instead of NZ directly :P - my second message about the shipping was accidentally missed by soera & didn't know you are my SS until I received the tracking from soera a few days ago - so I will "officially" receive the SS parcel at a later date with my other packages in US ::). Hope you liked the package from my side - tried to have a variety in there :). Sorry to hear the "customs hit" though for the package - did mark it as "gift" but assumed it went over the threshold (whatever that was?) :-[.
Hey PuddingM, thank you so much for the SS gifts! It was really surprising and carried :)
Ooh, my country has policy of charging 21% on the value, regardless in which category you mark it or value it has.
I'm happy you have received my gifts as well. A shame you couldn't join the stream because of the slight delay :(
It seems you have many packages coming from the US to New Zealand. It is really cool to meet a Pal collector on the other side of the world.
With kind regards,
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Oh and btw, I did open and receive my gift. It was very well thought out and appreciated!!! Also the candy included was perfect and it turned me on to one flavor I did not know existed and quickly has now become my favorite!
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The stream is up on VOD on Twitch for the next 60ish days and I've mirrored it to youtube indefinitely (https://youtu.be/MIRctMVnv40) unfortunately there were some audio issues with it capturing everyone else up until about halfway through. Essentially audio is broken until 37:25.
I got some candy, a neat Mega Man pin, some silly metal wall hangers, and Earth Defense Force 2025 and Insect Armageddon and Far Cry Compilation... and an Ein keychain that has mysteriously disappeared.
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Thanks everyone for participating this year! Thanks again Telly for your awesome gifts! The Castlevania magnet went on my fridge right after the stream.
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Is there going to be a separate haul thread, or should we just post here this year
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Edit: So I wrote this a week+ ago and never hit post...Oops
I'm still in disbelief about what I got this year from Secret Santa.
-bookmark(my guess) of Castlevania: Curse of Darkness
- Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia Soundtrack
- Blinx 2: Masters of Time and Space (Xbox)
- Legacy of Kain Defiance (Xbox)
- Total Overdose: A Gunslinger's Tale in Mexico
- Wonderful 101 (switch)
- Deadly Premonition Origins (Switch)
And then there was one more Item.
Castlevania 3 Dracula's Curse on the NES...BOXED
(https://media0.giphy.com/media/6vrvkgOB6mJ32/giphy.webp?cid=6c09b9523c427902a4d6a91c6ea312f11a607bdbc411dd63&rid=giphy.webp&ct=g)
Seriously I'm absolutely floored by this. Thank you so much
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Is there going to be a separate haul thread, or should we just post here this year
I say post what you got in this thread.
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I didn't participate in Secret Santa, but wanted to say Merry Christmas to everyone here. :)
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Merry Christmas!
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Edit: So I wrote this a week+ ago and never hit post...Oops
I'm still in disbelief about what I got this year from Secret Santa.
-bookmark(my guess) of Castlevania: Curse of Darkness
- Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia Soundtrack
- Blinx 2: Masters of Time and Space (Xbox)
- Legacy of Kain Defiance (Xbox)
- Total Overdose: A Gunslinger's Tale in Mexico
- Wonderful 101 (switch)
- Deadly Premonition Origins (Switch)
And then there was one more Item.
Castlevania 3 Dracula's Curse on the NES...BOXED
(https://media0.giphy.com/media/6vrvkgOB6mJ32/giphy.webp?cid=6c09b9523c427902a4d6a91c6ea312f11a607bdbc411dd63&rid=giphy.webp&ct=g)
Seriously I'm absolutely floored by this. Thank you so much
I'm pleased you enjoyed it. I also liked watching the reveal video.
Take care.
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Ended up getting sick so I'm just getting around to posting this now; but I just wanted to give a big Thank You to my Santa this year! I'm pretty sure I know who my Santa was as I had him a while ago and recognized the name.
(https://i.imgur.com/9AbbUyUl.jpg)
Lots of really good stuff in here and I'm really excited about Tiny Toons, I've heard great things about it and have been wanting to give it a shot for a while now! Thank you so much!!!
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Btw, since it was mentioned, I apologize if people have ended up with the same Santa/Giftee as from previous years. The one thing I don't really ever post is who is who's Santa and when pairing people up, I'm sure I screw up occasionally!
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Btw, since it was mentioned, I apologize if people have ended up with the same Santa/Giftee as from previous years. The one thing I don't really ever post is who is who's Santa and when pairing people up, I'm sure I screw up occasionally!
There's only so many that participate, its bound to happen. Selection should be totally random anyway so its not your fault at all! in fact it's nothing to be be sorry about at all, just part of how this works!
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Closing the books on another year and another wonderful Secret Santa.
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Y'all got some awesome stuff! Hope everyone had a good holiday and has a great New Year's Eve! :)
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Here's my package that had a "world tour" ::)
(https://i.imgur.com/rRtlrbcm.jpg) (https://i.imgur.com/F1mzzBUm.jpg)
A big thank you to my SS (koemo1) for the nice selection of games - especially that random sports game on my NS list :P.