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What are the basic rules we should lay down for trades?
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Re: Rules of Etiquette
04/13If circumstances arise that prohibit you from participating, you must notify the organizer or you will be deleted from the tribe.
If you are going to be late in sending, also notify organizer or trade partner.
I am still going to make an extra item each time. If they are not used, I can always use them as CHRISTmas gifts.
Suzanne
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04/13I agree with all of those. For now, I'm going to write up a brief set of ground rules. If you break them (by not following through, etc.), then you'll be asked to leave. I'm hoping that by asking folks to check in before they join the tribe AND being clear about the expectations, it won't come to that. This is supposed to be FUN!!! -
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04/13I agree with the sense of the rules, too. Maybe "Don't sign up if you're not sure you can do it -- there will always be another one"
I don't like the idea of people being booted from the tribe, though. Maybe if you don't follow through then there is an intermediate action -- you can try another trade, but in this case your partner would send YOUR trade item to an intermediary (I'd volunteer) who would hold it. If your item didn't show up by X date, I'd mail the item you'd otherwise have received onto the person you should have sent yours to ... and if you already sent yours anyway, then your recipient gets two that time and you're not really encouraged to sign up for any others.
When I used to run a quilt square swap, I ended up having to do a centralized swap where everyone sent everything to me and I doled it back out and mailed it back. Since everyone had to include a return mailing envelope it doubled the postage, but seemed to be worth it (and we were talking 37 cent postage, maybe a $1 max). Might work to try a trade like this for people who are too wary to do it the other way.
LOVE THIS TRIBE! When's the next trade?
Kristine (who was late sending her last one but DID get it sent!!) -
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04/13I've also thought about the centralized trade. I want to try a plain old trade within this group, but I'm always open to suggestions and new ideas. I'm hoping to start small and successful and build the group as we have more and more kickass trades. -
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04/13Maybe we can do the plain ol' trade, but post who the trading partners are in a thread. That way, if there is some sort of breakdowm, the trading partners can work it out. I understand the need to keep addresses secret, but something like this:
Fred Munster <--> Lucille Ball
Marsha Brady <--> Joan Jett
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04/13that's interesting because you would know who had your name and that may put pressure on them to respond
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04/13I was thinking that if an organiser sets up a trade and posts it on CV then anybody can join-knowing they have to abide the rules. If they follow through on the trade then they can become members of Crafty Trade and engage in the 'Special' trades that we post here.
The trades on CV can be:
straight-trades..ie: Partnered so that you send an item to the same person who sends an item to you. If you have to bow out or be late you can send a message with a promise to send the item as soon as possible.
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Regular trades (But the organiser sends each trader their tradee's info and the name of the person who is supposed to send them a gift.
If your a part of a Crafty Trade trade and :
If you don't follow through on two trades in a row without a good excuse then you must suffer a HORRIBLE PUNISHMENT! ;-)
Like sitting on an anthill for a week......
Naw...I don't think we should be THAT mean. -
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Re: Rules of Etiquette
04/13count me in, i am all about crafty trades. let me know when the ground rules are posted and set.
:)
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04/14I think it is perfectly acceptable to boot people who don't follow through AND don't notify anyone that they cannot send something. Plain and simple, the trade doesn't work if people do this. Why should they stay in the trade tribe if they can't participate?
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04/13The crafty rule:
"give onto others as you would have them give onto you"
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"craft on to others as you would have them craft onto you"
Can we put that on group header?
I think if people sign up and don't follow through then we should throw shrubbery at them, gullotine, group spank them, make them give us each a dollar... ;) -
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04/13thank you anne for starting this tribe! you put so much love and effort into the trades and you are deserving of a lot of praise. i feel safe in saying that we all appreciate and honour you for what you've done. thank you to kaltes for inviting me.
this most recent trade was my first. i thought for some reason that our giftee wasn't to know who they were getting a gift from until they got it, but then i got a message from lea saying she was my gifter so i messaged my giftee and bookmarked her.
one thing i'd like to see in the house rules is that the recipient message the giver when she/he recieves the gift. that seemed to be a problem for some givers and given the postal system's tendencies, is a good idea.my giftee hasn't messaged me, but i was one of the late senders. i had tried something new and it didn't work, so i had to start from scratch and ended up sending late. hopefully, she'll get it this week. i did keep her up to date with my delay and let her know when i mailed it. that's probably a good thing to add. oops,sorry that's long! -
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04/14and I assume that we don't have to participate in each trade to stay in the tribe right? -
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04/14I feel strange asking this but here goes. I am only really good at one craft, well good enough that I would confidently share my stuff in a trade. Is this ok?? I feel like everyone else is so incredible at a bunch of different crafts. So I guess my question is can we specify what we have to trade and then partner up that way? -
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04/14I'm not all that good at lots of different things, so don't worry. If you ever get me for a trade partner you're likely to get something made of beads and wire, but I'll try to switch it up a bit. But your post made an idea occur to me. What if we were to include a simple set of instructions with our projects? That way your recipient could learn a new craft. I know some crafts like knitting and crocheting defy simple instructions to someone who dosen't even know how to start, but patterns could help in situations like those. Just an idea, lemme know what you all think. -
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04/14I like to try lots of different things - which means I'm not great at any of them. I often think my trade items seem a little 'amateurish' but hope that my giftee enjoys them anyway and maybe gets an idea or two from them. I really like the idea of including instructions or notes with the item - maybe a comment on what one of the materials is, or what tool worked for doing some particular part of the project. (But we're not suggesting a rule - just an idea that may appeal to some of us)
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04/14It doesn't matter what your craft is. As long as you have something to contribute, sign up! It is fun!
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