From: Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>
Reply-To: AGA Aquascaping Contest Planning <aga-contest@thekrib.com>
To: aga-contest@thekrib.com
Subject: [AGA-Contest] Re: Aquascaping Contest: LAST chance. REALLY. (fwd)
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 07:30:07 -0700 (PDT)
This is my reply to said whiny US-based participant, for the record.
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Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 07:29:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>
To: Chris420529@aol.com
Subject: Re: Aquascaping Contest: LAST chance. REALLY.
Look, I'm sorry this ticks you off, but the deadline *was* September 15th.
I said it's ok if we get everything "a bit later", but this was meant to
encourage all the people entering from places like Singapore on the 14th,
where they needed to either send their forms via expensive overnight mail,
or withdraw from the contest. Hence, the reminder e-mails that I've been
sending every couple of weeks. And I am pretty sure that I have been
encouraging people to reply with their status in the various e-mails.
Now, you've never replied to any of the e-mails, so I had no idea, until
today, whether you intended on actually sending in that measly 10 bucks.
But meanwhile, I'll say that two of those measly ten bucks went to printing
copies of your aquascape to send to Japan to be judged, and another two
just went to printing 8x10's to be shown at the convention. Bam! We've
already SPENT 40% of your entry fee, and we don't even know if we're going
to actually get it.
So then I thought, maybe you had a throwaway aol account to use for
entering the contest, and all the e-mails were going nowhere. So I asked
Carlos Sanchez and other people helping with the planning if they could
locate you and the one other person hasn't replied to any e-mails ("Omer",
not "Gomer"). He's in Turkey. It wasn't a group e-mail, it was just to
the two of you. I'm not sure I understand the complaint there either -- I
often send mail in groups of two or three to people as their forms come in.
So I'm sorry this bugs you. At least you finally e-mailed back, so I know
what's going on. The guy in Turkey won't be so lucky. He probably IS
using a throwaway account. OK, so you misunderstood the intent of
extending the deadline. Next year we will try to make things more clear.
- Erik
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 Chris420529@aol.com wrote:
Ok.
I'm going to say this. I've been really aggrivated with your organization
lately.
The purpose of a deadline is that you can send in the stuff at any time
before the deadline. It is still before the deadline. Theoretically, all
forms/money recieved before the deadline are equal.
I won't be made to feel bad because I have followed the schedule set for
me.
I didn't NEED to have it in yet. It will be there. It's already in the
mail.
I didn't realize I had to notify you about when I go to the post office.
I've had a member with connections to the AGA constantly asking me about
sending my stuff in. I recieved a PM saying URGENT and that "the aga is
looking
for you." That, to me, is borderline harrassment. If you wanted the stuff
in
right away - it is your fault (please realize this is the general 'you'
and not
you specifically) for not setting the deadline earlier. You cannot get
aggrivated for people adhering to the deadline you set. I would have been
perfectly
okay with having to pay that day, or to send the forms in before being
allowed
to upload my pictures.
This is 10 measely dollars we are talking about - a fee which some people
dont' even have to pay because it "inconveniences" them. I don't need the
collection agency constantly asking me - especially before the due date
has even
passed!
I've already told tsunami carlos about this and if you' d like to know
more
of how I feel, feel free to ask him.
Further, I don't know how it appropriate it is to specificy names in a
group
email. IE, I did not need to know that gomer hasn't paid yet. That's his
personal business. He didn't need to know that I hadn't. That's my
business.
~K.Duguay
PS. I'm a really nice person and don't usually come off so rude and
hotheaded, but I've really had it with this. I am sorry.
--
Erik Olson
erik at thekrib dot com
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