RE: [AGA-Contest] PayPal-less Entries (121)

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Carlos Sanchez wrote:

> Wow, this means I've passed my goal number of 100 entries by about a dozen. 
> Not bad!

Yep...actually more! There are still some stragglers entering tonight, but 
it's definitely slowing now.  The "possible" sits at 121 right now, but 
three of these I can almost guarantee are going to be removed due to lack 
of actual photos.  Pretty much the rest seem serious.  So I think we'll 
have at least 118 now.  Which is almost 50 more than our record and almost 
double last year's response.

Topic for today (I'll probably write once more when I close up at 
midnight): Out-of-approved-Paypal entries.  Looks like the countries this 
year were Viet Nam (very big turnout due to one person getting their 
friends to enter), South Africa, Malta, and Indonesia.  There were some 
others, but they sent $5 bills hidden in their release forms.  Total fees 
waived thus far: 13.  However, two of them may pay anyway.  But I think 
the waiver was very succesful in getting some particularly pissed entrants 
feeling very grateful and happy to drop the release form in the mail 
(release form... I think that'll be my next report's topic).

  - Erik

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