BAD BAD BAD!!!!!

First things first! I wanna post the names of those that did NOT ever send a package out to their swap partner for the Polkadotsandrickrack swap.  It has been three months since they were to be sent out.  No excuse!!!!!  If you ever have a swap I would hope that you would keep these names in mind. It's just not right.  I'm amazed that someone could accept their gift then NOT send a thing to their partner. And in some cases the partner you had was the one sending to you. You just didn't know it.  So to make things worse Donna sent her pkg out to Simonetta who NEVER sent her one back.  So not only did she receive something from Donna she SCREWED Donna over by not sending one back. WRONG I tell ya!!!!  Just wrong!!!!  Donna would never do that to anyone. 

Next up on our list is Nikki Collins.  No blog of course.  Even easier to get away with not sending out your gift. Not to mention that makes it harder on those who do not have a blog but wish to play along with us.  We have no way of getting to you.  There are lots of great non bloggers out there that do the right thing. But this gal...................need I say more??  Again if you have a swap please write down that name!!!!!   Joyce Greenfield who also does not have a blog, ( I don't think so anyway if so Joyce I'm sorry) but she did the right thing and sent to her partner.   But she received NOTHING!!!  I will say that Kathie Ivie has stepped up to the plate and been very good to Joyce. So thank you Kathie!!!  I also must tell you that Joyce took the time to specially pick out things for her partner that she knew her partner would love. Then she got nothing from her secret swapper.  Again it just blows my mind how someone can do this.

Ok so here are the THREE names to beware of!!!!  I would hope they will still do the right thing and follow through with your obligation. Or return your gifts!!!!!  It's only fair.

SIMONETTA MOGENTALE , NIKKI COLLINS, and MONIQUE DONS 

UPDATE we've got another one.   It seems that Monique Dons also did not follow thru and send Joy her swap package.  Again not right!!!  Come on.............anyone else that didn't receive please let me know.

I'll be back with another post tomorrow. I want to give these two the whole post to themselves.  And it's not like I never emailed them or tried to give them a chance to do right.  I can't let it go and say nothing.  It wouldn't be fair to Joyce and Donna. 

 

 

Comments

[Elaine]

I understand how you and they fell. Last summer I entered a Halloween in July Apron Swap. It was to be mailed out the first week of Aug. My partner emailed what she liked and didn't like and I replied my dislikes/likes...I said a pocket was nice...nothing too gorry. She did't want anything gorry...black cats/pumkins fine. I did a bib that I pieced and quilted of a
black cat the skirt part was a beautiful pumpking pring. I enclosed some note cards, sticky notes shaped like her first name initial, some Hallowen ribbons. It was my first swap and I was SO EXCITED....well it's Feb. and I am yet to receive my apron from her. She emailed it had arrived and she loved it and so forth and so on...her machine had problems and she was going to borrow her mother's machine and get it off the next week. Posted on my blog and the picture I had posted didn't do it justice, etc. A month or two later I emailed that I had not received it yet and she should file a claim if she insured it. I thought that was a good hint...well...no reply...I went to her blog a time or two and she has sewn this and that so forth so on but no apron for her swap.

IN a way it turned me off on swaps or made me leery....though I did enter a Christmas stocking one and stuff it with sewing stuff and I loved what I received...only two swaps I've done.

I understand if you or someone in your family were ill, death in family, things come up and happen so you can't fullfill your obligations but at least have the manners to tell the other person so they understand and then when things calm down send it better late than never.

Sorry to rant and rave but I tend to get on my soap box when I hear of it happening as I've been on that non-receiving end!!!

[dawn]

Woot Woot Sharon!

[Carol Lewis]

Sharon, I will take either Donna or Joyce and be their new swap person and do a cute polka dot gift, I totally would not mind. That is so sad for these two gals who put together nice gifts and got nothing in return.

[Dandelion Quilts]

I feel sorry for swappers who do their part and are eagerly waiting for their packages to arrive...that never do. It also causes additional stress to the person who organized the swap, in this case, Sharon. Sharon, you did an amazing job organizing the swap (and it was quite big), and I am sorry that you have a negative ending to an otherwise terrific swap. Thanks again for all your work.

[Rachel]

Ouch! You tell 'em, girl! I can't believe anyone would do that. I've never been in a swap but I honestly cannot imagine not fulfilling my promise. What a disappointment for the two ladies who didn't receive a gift.

p.s. remind me never to get on your bad side ☺

[May Britt]

You did the right thing telling about this. And I hope these girls read this and send their swap partners their packages. Hope they are very ashamed.

[Jennifer from NY]

Ugh, that is so wrong. What is the matter with these people? I hope they're reading this. They deserve a public embarrassment. --Jen

[GeorgiaPeachez]

Exactly why I quit doing swaps! ps. thanks for my sweet little valentine, you are so thoughtful! xo, suzy

[Pam]

Years ago now, I was in a year long cross stitch round robin. I stitched and mailed for 11 months. I was so happy to do it and did my best work. On the 12 month when everyone rec'd their piece home well, mine never came. The girl swears it was mailed said she put it out in her mail box (we were always supposed to go to post office and insure them...which everyone always did) so after a zillion stitches I got nothing. I always felt she kept the beautiful piece or made it a gift to someone posing as the stitcher. Ugh. Horrible. I have yet to do anymore round robins of any sort. But maybe I should jump in and try. I wouldn't mind sending someone who didn't get their polkadotsand rick rack a gift. You could email me :) Pam in Chico

[JudyC]

Oh yes, I've been screwed before too on swaps in groups and it really sucks to put so much effort and love into something and have nothing sent in return. Too bad for anyone who doesn't think names should be listed...you play the game you get outed when you blatantly disregard others feelings.

[rachelmp]

How sad - now get this ... I sent an extra special package to Monique as she missed out on recieving her bag swap parcel from Linda at allstitchedup. I didn't get a thank you so Linda was chasing it up today. I did that as an extra one. Wow

[Jen]

You go Sharon! You did the right thing calling them out on your blog. Hopefully they will be shamed into doing the right thing.

[Sinta]

I was just recently in a Valenite swap and it turned out the person who I "gave to" was my partner to "get from". Well, she got/but I got not-a-thing not even a thank you! I don't understand? Is it greed?

[Barbara]

I have been beat in several swaps I have been in. I asked if I should post the names of the deadbeats and everyone said NO, that it would be rude of me to do so.
Thank you for posting the names of these gals. Maybe if we all posted the names of bad swappers we could eliminate them all.

[annie from San Diego]

Like Pam in Chico, I was part of a year long cross stitch swap. Two lucky things happened....I got mine back, but sadly some girls did not. So instead of putting out swaps into the computer world, we instead connected with girls we KNEW would be kind and return our work. I have now been in an email group with these girls for at least 17 years. As I like to say "some of my best friends are people I have never even met". So good came from a bad thing....hope the same for the swap girls who were slighted. XXX Annie

[Peggy]

NICE GOING!!!
When you don't follow the rules you get your name up there for all swappers to see!

OH, and since it's LOSER MONDAY...I'm posting -0- loss...
yes, another week of no loss, but no gain either :(
Peggy

[Catherine]

Hey Sharon. Gee you are a gutsy lady. Good on you for naming them.
I have a swap story too. I think I would have actually preferred to have received nothing than what I got.
The swap I was in was for a "log cabin scrappy challenge". My swap partner and I exchanged emails about what we liked and our "style". She seemed real nice. I spent ages putting together a fabulous range of fabrics for her - and I was really excited about it. I even thought we might become buddies. I pressed them and folded them all up and was overly generous. A wonderful array of cheery brights - just like she had asked for. I also included some of my own pattern designs (vintage themed iron on transfers) for her.
You know what she sent me? Cut up kids clothing - and a packet of cheap, stale, out-of-date biscuits. One piece of "fabric" was a toddlers dress that had roosters on it - and most of them had been "fussy cut" out of the dress - so it had big square holes all over it. Nothing in the parcel was even suitable for the rag bag. It all went straight in the bin. She had spent quite a lot on postage (from the US to Australia) for her parcel of insulting total crap and I still can't work out why she bothered!!!!!!!!!!
xo Cath

[Darlene]

Years ago I was part of a x-stitch swap and my project never made it home. It got worse when the leader disappeared, too.

[julie]

wow, you go girl!! i'm hostessing a swap at the moment and i intend to name anyone who doesn't follow through with the commitments they've made. it's just plain bad manners to let others down!
julie

[Shelley]

Yep I got dudded in Chookys SSCS. I even sent an extra gift out to Mars swap partner as you would know she wasnt able to complete her gift. It was my pleasure to do so and help out Chooky.
Though I didnt receive my gift I have to say that I have made the most amazing friend in Chooky so that even though I lost out in the swap I have come out on top. I will swap again but I will be a bit tentative. Chooky sent me a lovely calendar of her photographic work to make up for things, so I guess in the end I am the lucky one. I dont think I would want a gift from someone who doesnt have a the right sentiment.
As for that nasty woman who sent a bag of rags...what can you say.
A big thank you to you Sharon for organising the PDRR my gift was amazing.
Shelley

[Susan Ramey Cleveland]

I feel your pain, everyone. I too have been cheated in swaps. But, even so, I do join others that interest me. Because when they turn out really good, it makes up for the bad ones, I think.
Sharon, if you need a swap angel to send one of the people who got shafted a polka dot package, I'll be happy to do it. I love sending gifts.