Cheese4Everyone
Ambassador to our Sentient Dairy-Based Overlords
In true VF4 tradition, today officially starts the Vaultmas season! As such, here we go with our Secret Santa game time!!!
The basic concept of the Secret Santa game is simple. All of the participants’ names are placed into a hat, box, etc. and mixed up. Each person then chooses one name from the box, but doesn't tell anyone which name was picked. He/she is now responsible for buying a gift for the person selected.
When the Secret Santa wraps his/her gift, he/she should label it with the recipient's name but doesn't indicate whom the present is from. (Remember, most of the fun is in the secrecy.)
How it is going to work Vault-style
Everyone who is interested is going to post that they want to participate. The spending limit for your gift will be $20;however, if you want to spend more, do so at your own discretion. The point of the limit is to keep this fun (the event is not meant to be a burden). I will keep the list of all the people that are participating.
The gifts will be mostly Steam Games/Gifts to keep it simple. If you do not have a problem with receiving an actual physical gift, you can PM me your address and I will give that to your Secret Santa.
People have until December 12th to sign up for this great event! On December 14th, you will all be assigned your Secret Santa! It is now time to get those gifts! You can try and find out what to get your person (and risk exposure!) or just improvise and get them what you think they will like.
Everyone will have until December 21st to buy the gift you are going to give. On December 22nd, at 8:00PM Eastern the gifts will be given! Everyone will need to be on Mumble or Steam for the giving! Make sure that you have your Steam Account associated with your forum account.
[Admin Note: As a result of people not buying gifts and to prevent anyone from being left out of the holiday cheer, you MUST send cheese some sort of proof prior to the giving that shows you've purchased your gift. This can be a screenshot/forward of the "Thank you for your purchase" email from Steam, OR you can use the "send to an email address" and send the gift to cheese's email cheese4everyone[DOT]tf2[AT]gmail[DOT]com. (He won't redeem it, but that way it can either be forwarded to the intended recipient should you not be around, and/or you can re-send it to the real recipient at the time of giving.) Newly purchased gifts can't be sent via steam item trading for 30 days, hence the email method of doing so.
Furthermore, if you fail to buy a gift for your recipient, we will either withhold your santa's gift until such time as you do, and/or may ask your santa to instead pass it to the person you should have purchased a gift for.
TL;DR: If you don't give (and show us you intend to give), you don't get.
Thanks for your understanding. - The VF4 staff]
To participate please respond to this post with the following:
"I want to participate in the Vault F4 Secret Santa Gift Exchange!
I understand that by signing up for this event I am guaranteeing that I will buy a gift for whoever I am assigned.
If I wish to back out of this fun, then I have to let Cheese4Everyone know BEFORE December 21st.
I have associated my forum account with my steam account"
A Couple of Points:
1.Big Thank-You to Lava Red for Drafting this Message!!!
2. people should have steam wish-lists that are publicly viewable to aid the Santa in gift selection. This way you have something to consider/fall back on or use if you don't know the person at all, or so you can watch the Steam sales for something they might like.
3. Operators have a discussed the repercussions for people that fail to buy gifts and failure to do so will result in being publicly shamed. To be honest, for some people this may be the only gift they get this holiday, so keeping with the spirit of Christmas, let's make sure they get a gift.
The basic concept of the Secret Santa game is simple. All of the participants’ names are placed into a hat, box, etc. and mixed up. Each person then chooses one name from the box, but doesn't tell anyone which name was picked. He/she is now responsible for buying a gift for the person selected.
When the Secret Santa wraps his/her gift, he/she should label it with the recipient's name but doesn't indicate whom the present is from. (Remember, most of the fun is in the secrecy.)
How it is going to work Vault-style
Everyone who is interested is going to post that they want to participate. The spending limit for your gift will be $20;however, if you want to spend more, do so at your own discretion. The point of the limit is to keep this fun (the event is not meant to be a burden). I will keep the list of all the people that are participating.
The gifts will be mostly Steam Games/Gifts to keep it simple. If you do not have a problem with receiving an actual physical gift, you can PM me your address and I will give that to your Secret Santa.
People have until December 12th to sign up for this great event! On December 14th, you will all be assigned your Secret Santa! It is now time to get those gifts! You can try and find out what to get your person (and risk exposure!) or just improvise and get them what you think they will like.
Everyone will have until December 21st to buy the gift you are going to give. On December 22nd, at 8:00PM Eastern the gifts will be given! Everyone will need to be on Mumble or Steam for the giving! Make sure that you have your Steam Account associated with your forum account.
[Admin Note: As a result of people not buying gifts and to prevent anyone from being left out of the holiday cheer, you MUST send cheese some sort of proof prior to the giving that shows you've purchased your gift. This can be a screenshot/forward of the "Thank you for your purchase" email from Steam, OR you can use the "send to an email address" and send the gift to cheese's email cheese4everyone[DOT]tf2[AT]gmail[DOT]com. (He won't redeem it, but that way it can either be forwarded to the intended recipient should you not be around, and/or you can re-send it to the real recipient at the time of giving.) Newly purchased gifts can't be sent via steam item trading for 30 days, hence the email method of doing so.
Furthermore, if you fail to buy a gift for your recipient, we will either withhold your santa's gift until such time as you do, and/or may ask your santa to instead pass it to the person you should have purchased a gift for.
TL;DR: If you don't give (and show us you intend to give), you don't get.
Thanks for your understanding. - The VF4 staff]
To participate please respond to this post with the following:
"I want to participate in the Vault F4 Secret Santa Gift Exchange!
I understand that by signing up for this event I am guaranteeing that I will buy a gift for whoever I am assigned.
If I wish to back out of this fun, then I have to let Cheese4Everyone know BEFORE December 21st.
I have associated my forum account with my steam account"
A Couple of Points:
1.Big Thank-You to Lava Red for Drafting this Message!!!
2. people should have steam wish-lists that are publicly viewable to aid the Santa in gift selection. This way you have something to consider/fall back on or use if you don't know the person at all, or so you can watch the Steam sales for something they might like.
3. Operators have a discussed the repercussions for people that fail to buy gifts and failure to do so will result in being publicly shamed. To be honest, for some people this may be the only gift they get this holiday, so keeping with the spirit of Christmas, let's make sure they get a gift.
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