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:

Appreciated though you took so long to react that i missed an GA which i couldn't join - because it had an SGtools restriction which needed a whitelist GA... just 1 hour quicker and i still could have joined it.

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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Doesn't sound like he was taking it out on you too badly, just venting about a situation he had been anxious about. But I'll take notes in case I'm ever in the impatient giveaway creator's position: if it ever happens that one of my winners takes a bit longer than I hope and I miss a giveaway because of it then I'll keep quiet about it to avoid guilt-tripping anyone. Space cat is meant to bring happiness, not guilt.

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you took so long to react that i missed an GA which i couldn't join

omg he missed a ga!

a reply from a true impatient and stupid leech :3
just hope he blacklisted you so you don't have to interact with him again. sometimes blacklists are a blessing on sg...

seems a lot of people don't even read the faq/guidelines, they want everything instantly.

8 years ago
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Unfortunatly, you are right. It happens way too often people don't read the faq... : /

8 years ago
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A little something for the ninjas:
Gone

Please let me know if it's been used.

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8 years ago
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Congrats! It seems like randomly hiding a key in the comments helps from keeping away the people that just read threads for keys. This way only people that are interested in the topic and read through the comments will see it (well mostly only those people). Never thought it would take 3 hours though.

8 years ago
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Bump and meow. Thanks!

8 years ago
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I've seen some people doing flash ga's in order to reach certain limit so they can join a ga... I do not think it is bad per se as long as the creator don't stalk/pressure the winner into marking it as received... I think if the creator needs that cv as badly he/she should allow "enough" time for any person to mark it as received...

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Well, if you do that, you know that there is a risk it won't get marked in time. You'll be better off making more GA's then, just to make sure (plus, it'll help you for the next lvl, if you're so desperate about levels)

8 years ago
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yep.. that's also a good strategy to avoid being left out... otherwise just sit back and wait for the next ga of the same game... in the meantime, just keep creating ga's and leveling up till reaching heaven... er, I mean... lvl 10 :P

8 years ago
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Thanks for the train.

8 years ago
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thanks :D

8 years ago
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burp

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It's weird to see such behaviour here, I thought SG was about giving (therefore being nice to other people) at least as much as about receiving. Just ignore them, some people are rude, and there is nothing you can do about it. Thanks for the train!

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Well, there are a lot of people that think this place is for receiving and never giving unfortunatly, but for a big part of the forum community, it seems like giving is pretty big. I also considered this community as one of the nicest I've been part of. That's why I was a bit surprised by this behaviour.

8 years ago
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I haven't had the pleasure yet but I do hope I'll never experience such things..

8 years ago
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thx

8 years ago
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Damn!
It took me so long to go through the train.
Hope I didn't miss any email.

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Bump

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Bump. I have to say all the gifters were very patient, sometimes I take some days to mark it as received as well.

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Yeah, usually gifters are very patient and nice (at least the ones I usually deal with), but sometimes you meet somebody a bit less patient...

8 years ago
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A fast bump for you! :)

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Stop hassling me. :X
So rude.
OW! No poking!
MOMMMMMM!!! Jim's touching me!

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I find it a little ridiculous that people make a GA, because they saw a GA they want to enter and need that extra level or GA. I mean really
you shoudn't giveaway games only to win some more, I understand a lot of people see it that way. I wouldn't feel guilty because he missed a GA, you have 7 days to mark received so GA creator should be prepare to way those 7 days. It's nice when people marked it fast, but life happens and weirdly enough there are some things that take precedence over marking a GA received... Thank you for the ride:)

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I agree with you. I giveaway games because it feels good to do. I rarely even enter GA's now (only some group ones and wishlisted games).

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Luckily, I've never had such an experience. Also, there are two things about the OP's behavior that I thought were interesting. First of all, I find it a bit ironic that the giveaway creator left a message like that to someone on their whitelist. And second, if they were really that impatient to have their GA end and get received so that they would be able to meet the requirements for entering the GA they were interested in, then they should have created a flash GA instead of one that lasts a week. :P Oh, and thanks for the train!

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Exactly. That's kind of why I was surprised as well. I was on his whitelist (although I think it was because of some recruitment thread) and I just added him to mine as well (also removed him right after).

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Must've been for a game they really wanted. The tone sounds OK to my ears, though, so...

8 years ago
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Well, I don't really have a problem with what he said, but it's kind of annoying to see a mail saying that I should mark it before a certain time.

8 years ago
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Bump

8 years ago
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I haven't had any situation like that from what I remember but yeah - even worse things happen in this bad world.
Thanks for the train! :)

8 years ago
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Bumpo~

8 years ago
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Sometimes if I need 0.0x CV to level up, I did flash GA and I hope winner can mark as received ASAP.
And sometimes the winner just get entry and offline, I know, I do the same thing often.
I only create another flash GA and complain in the description, just a complain, because winner have 7 days to mark as received.

Well, but I know some people even make ITH to request people mark as received in 24hr.
I think that is bad because he let newbie get the rule wrong.

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Well I normally active wins the same day but this one time I was on board of a vessel it took me about a week I think (internet connection was really shitty) right after I activated the key and when I wanted to thank the ga creator I was already blacklisted -.-

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Closed 8 years ago by Dnomyar96.