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euro_santa · November 17, 2019, 9:21pm

Vox populi, vox Dei! You wanted it, you have it. It’s time for a new round of Secret Santa.

You know the rules already, but let’s make a quick recap:

- Send at least 3 liters of good, rateable beers from your country, which have not been rated by your recipient yet (and are not available in recipient’s country, when possible)*.*

- Some Santa likes to put snacks, beer mats, glasswares, magazines. Make it special!

- Post your haul and remember to mention/thank Santa when rating.

- Rate the received beers on Ratebeer.

- Don’t forget to leave a trade feedback when you have discovered who your Santa is.

- You have minimum 50 ratings and no negative trade feedback. If you have no trade experience, send me a BM. We are always happy to welcome new people.

Subscription ends on Monday, Nov the 25th. I will then set pairings asap and you need to send your parcel in two weeks.

To apply, send me a BM with:

address, email, mobile (for contact reasons)
likes and dislikes
If you wish to send to EU only or EU+Norway&Switzerland.

Don’t spoil your participation here!

Hope to see a lot of BMs. Last time we were 19 participants from 9 countries; can we make better ? *

*Given the high amount of users from Germany and The Netherlands, I hope to see a lot of BMs coming from other countries as well

euro_santa · November 18, 2019, 3:56pm

Deutschland never sleeps. 80% of the subscriptions are from Germany, so need to close it for a while.

If you are from Germany and want to take part, please send me a BM and as soon as we have enough users from other countries, we can let you in. But at the moment I cannot promise anything, We don’t want to make it a German only Secret Santa.

Thanks for your understanding!

Santa

Grzesiek79 · November 19, 2019, 7:41pm

Definitly right!

euro_santa · November 21, 2019, 4:01pm

So far 11 Santas applied.

Tagging some of you just to make you aware of this topic. If you want to partecipate, please send me a BM

@beardedavenger @simontomlinson @taboada @MonsterMagnet @Benzai @Sebilinz @herrklemann @japppp @VastActiv @surething_ii

I probably forgot a lot of usual swappers, please forgive me

euro_santa · November 23, 2019, 10:57am

Atm 15 Santas applied. 8 countries represented with a couple of nice surprises!

Some of you forgot to give me address + likes/dislikes. Please check your inbox and reply to my msg

Still 3 days to go. Will we get new Santas and new countries?

Santa

euro_santa · November 25, 2019, 11:26am

Last 24 hours to apply. Pairings have already been set and will communicate it to you tomorrow between 12:00 and 13:00.

There’s still one pending application. If I do not get address/likes/dislikes by tomorrow we need to start anyway without that person. So please check your inbox for unanswered messages from myself.

Thank you!

euro_santa · November 26, 2019, 12:34pm

Pairings set. Message sent to all of you.

Please remember the rules

Send at least 3 liters of local, good beer
Share with me the tracking link, but NOT with your recipient
Post the picture of the haul once box has been received
Rate the beers on Ratebeer mentioning your sender and Secret Santa
Last but not least, leave a trade feedback to your sender (once you have guessed who he/she is)

Deadline for sending beers is Tuesday, the 10th of December. If you are encountering issues please let me know in advance.

Let the fun begin!

DJ-Santa

We are 17 users from 10 different countries. Lots of surprises this time. It’s gonna be a nice round

euro_santa · November 28, 2019, 3:16pm

Quick update just to remind the rules.

Secret Santa means secret Don’t get in touch with your recipient. If you have any doubt you can write to me.

Let’s not spoil the fun

euro_santa · December 2, 2019, 10:24am

Dear Craftbeer Friends! Four boxes already sent, of which one expected by tomorrow.

If you haven’t checked your inbox yet, please do and start collecting nice beers for your recipient!

Benzai · December 2, 2019, 12:37pm

My apologies, I saw this too late and I have some unpleasant stuff going on in my private life so I’ve been “out” for quite some time. Hope to return soon. I wish all participants a pleasant swap!

euro_santa · December 5, 2019, 9:47am

Can’t wait to have you back. That would mean your issues are gone

BTW, six boxes are on the way, one will be delivered by EOD and another one should have been delivered already (not sure as the tracking link stopped working at the border).

Five days left to send, don’t forget to share the tracking link with me

Cheers,
Santa