Secret Santa 2015

[Stoner]

I'm in again.  And I don't mind if we use Wishlists or not.  Might be a good idea for people to have a general wishlist made just in case, and then not be 100% committed to getting something off it.

[Knuckles]

why dont we just make a "wish list" here in 1 separate discussion thread and the moderator of this thing can give out addresses and go from there or is that a problem with people?

[Judge]

The reason we did Amazon wish lists was because you could keep your address private and Amazon would handle delivery without revealing it.  Some people have problems with giving out their address and I don't blame them.

[Judge]

Plus there is a big fraud issue if you pay for a product at one address and have it shipped to another address on another state. That gets flagged and could cause issues.  Not a problem with a wishlist since Amazon does the delivery.  And if you avoid that problem by shipping to your house then you have to pay to ship it out again.

[! JDM The Professional !]

Count me in!

[GM Franchise]

In

[Sgt. Josh Underpants]

I'm in again. Wish list is fine with me because of the ease of use

[Mike Powers]

Okay, for those proposing not using wish lists, how would you propose we handle this?  Everyone PM's me their address, then I distribute them based on who you draw?  Judge makes a point about some people not being okay with giving away their address.

Lets discuss how this might work.

[Knuckles]

i like that idea mike

[T-Bonizzle]

I think....so long as you use an official Amazon seller, you can gift whatever you want. You get into trouble if you try to ship something from outside the US though.

So the wishlists can be used as a base, and then you can go from there if you choose.

[Alex Smiley]

I'll go ahead and join the fun this year, but I have one request (especially if we're talking about not being exclusive to wish lists).

ill jump in but i too dont like the idea of being limited to wish lists. how am i supposed to get that person drunk? :p

Whoever has me to send something to, please DO NOT send any form of alcohol. I know the above was more a joke than anything, but I have my reasons (conveniently spoiler tagged so you don't have to read all about it if you don't want to haha):

[spoiler]I don't drink, I don't plan to drink, and we don't keep any alcohol in the house because my dad hasn't had a drop since recovering from a liver issue nearly two years ago.[/spoiler]

Sorry to be a slight downer, just needed to get that off my chest. This will be fun!

[T-Bonizzle]

Don't think you can mail alcohol anyway (at least not in my State....alcohol can't cross county lines)

I think it's reasonable for someone to make a list of 'don't get me this, this, or this' for free form gift givers. (or just general guidelines like no alcohol, keep it safe for work, etc. etc. etc.)

For record, in addition to thing I got for Midas off his wish-list I also sent him a pretty custom anklet.

[Mike Powers]

How about this. When you guys send me your info to distribute to your Santa, also writeup a short "profile" for me to pass along. Sort of a "here's some things I'm into, here's some things I'm definitely NOT into". Along with that, also set up the Amazon Wish List, that your Santa can use if they wish, or just use to get an even better idea of your taste.

[T-Bonizzle]

Sounds like a perfect solution.

[Knuckles]

love it...