MONTHLY COMPETITION

anadesigns replied:

What a FABULOUS IDEA......
What a GREAT IDEA.......

Count me in..........let me know where we can help

AngelEyesByDesign replied:

Great Idea Kath

You can definitely count me in too!!!!!

adulttoysatdj replied:

Love your ideas, I will be the first for the prize pack, as I ca supply Nutrimetics hampers free of charge and send them off to the winners, I also can include other prizes such as the Super Lint brush and much more.

CustomCandles replied:

Sounds like a fantastic idea

SaucyKath replied:

Dear partyplans,

Looks like my idea is a hit - so can you impliment it for us?  Kath

hotfrangipani replied:

Hello eveyone

Not a bad idea Kath!  Looks like there is plenty of support for this idea.  Have to work out exactly how it's going to work and who gives the prizes etc but overall, great idea!  Who else would like to be a part of this competition?

Have to talk more about it!

Tanya 

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SaucyKath replied:

Perhaps, if we had this as a pinned topic somewhere then everyone that wanted to be involved could just volunteer a month they would be the judge.    I think its best if we do stipluate a value so that everyone is donating about the same price level, and also each person volunteering to judge needs to pay for the postage to the winner.    If we had the judging and announcement of the winner on the first of each month - it would work fine.    Something like this?

MONTH                             VOLUNTEER JUDGE        TOPIC WINNER

October                               Saucy Kath                          Winner to be announced 1st Nov

hotfrangipani replied:

Ok,

We have one "volunteer judge" per month supplying the gift worth say $10.00 retail and the delivery of that item to the winner. 

Are you are going to do October Kath?  I can do November. Who would like December Ladies!

I can talk about it further later with my "graphic designer" and work out how we can set up something pretty on the forum for this topic.

It would also be nice to know what was given for the prize as well.... get everyone excited about what they might get!

I am open for more idea's

Tanya

SaucyKath replied:

I like the idea of getting a "surprise" in the mail, but if you want to list what we will be giving that is fine too.   I was thinking that when the winner got their surprise in the mail, that they would then let everyone know what they got (and how wonderful it is!)  

If you wanted to go with retail value, I'm also happy to bump this up to say $20 - $25 - afterall I think we all get discounts from our company's don't we?    Totally up to everyone else though of course - perhaps we could stipulate no gift vouchers as prizes too, this way nobody is obligated to place an order, etc..

CustomCandles replied:

Hi ladies,

Love the idea.

My thoughts on the prizes however, I think that if we make a limit of $15 per gift plus the postage, with no gift vouchers.

Just thinking of the clothing party plan ladies.  It would be hard for them to supply something from thier range.  But of course the gift does not have to be from the judges range (or does it?)

How about having a random judge, only the judge and party plans would know who it is.  Then when the winner recieves their prize they will get a bigger surprise.  Just thinking that if everyone knew that I was the judge for a month, they would probably expect to receive candles or soap. But if they didnt know who the judge was they wouldnt know what sort of prize to expect.

Just my thoughts on the matter. 

I am happy to put my hand up and be a judge.

Looking foward to this, I think it will be a lot of fun.

SaucyKath replied:

Start of the month is drawing near!    Just wondering if we're definitely going to do this.   At least we can trial it - and if interest falls away at least we've tried.

Kath

CustomCandles replied:

Sounds good to me Kath.

Lets have a show of hands.

How many people are wanting to have the Monthly Competition?????

anadesigns replied:

I am all for the Monthly Competition
Count me in!!!
MarineMC

TinaSaucy replied:

Evening Ladies,

You can count me in on a monthly competition, sounds like a fantastic idea.

adulttoysatdj replied:

This has been a great suggestion and If admin is listening than please everyone really wants this and we surely need to get it, even though some say minimums matter I think it will be up for the prize person (the person that sends the prizes) to actually select what they wish to have as the prize, this makes it fair for those who can and cannot afford everything and im sure we can all afford something.

Let me be first to say that I think judges should be one a month and their should be another person or the same person that supplies the prizes, this makes it always fair. I would love to have prizes from my range of toys, homewares, cosmetics and more.  I also think that their should be runner up prizes and let me first to say that I have beauty bag sets, brand new that I need to get out of my house, I could supply as many as you want, I have to many (I have hundreds), postage is not to much of a matter unless its over 20 items.

Im glad that everyone supports the idea.

partyplans replied:

Sounds like we will be starting a competition !!... 

Now we just need to come up with the details of how it will operate

CustomCandles replied:

MMMMMMMMMMMMM

Now we have to put our thinking caps on....

Ok I will suggest that party plans pick the judge for each month.

Is the judge going to be a surprise judge???

Or will we all know how the judge will be for the month???

Then we have to work out the competition itself......

We could have it for the best topic on a certain board.

What does everyone else think???

What are your ideas on running the comp???

AngelicaLyn replied:

Great idea girls. I am happy to be a judge and donate a prize sometime in the future. I think we need at least 12 judges so that it would only be once a year at the most. If Partyplan chooses the judges then each will have to register their willingness to participate. 

CustomCandles replied:

Ok all,

Are there any further suggestions on how to run this monthly comp????

partyplans replied:

We now have a little competition system in place (Just debugging it!).

It is a game called "Low Bid". The idea is to place bids (using virtual credits.. not real money  ) and the member with the lowest unique bid at the end of the round is the winner  . You do not know what the other players are bidding, so basically you have to guess the lowest number that nobody else has guessed  .

For example - a bid of  " 1 " is the lowest possible bid... but everyone will probably make that bid.. so it will not be unique and will not win.

You can make multiple bids... so the catch is... you need credits to place a bit. You get credits by making posts in the forum or referring collegues to the site .

The winner gets a prize from the sponser of the month.

Questions:

should the sponser be anonymous until the end of the competition or should people know what they are playing for? (BTW Credits will reset to zero after every competion.. so use them or lose them)

What would the sponsers like as an incentive? A profile page for the month?

CustomCandles replied:

ohhhhhhhhhhhhh

Whoooooooooo

Our first competition.

I think that we should keep the judge or the sponser anonymous.

That way it will give the winner all the more surprise when they receive their prize.

A profile for the following month would be a fantastic insentive.

You can count me in as a sponser.

Cant wait to hear more about how we make our bids etc.

Let the games begin........

adulttoysatdj replied:

I dislike that new competition idea i say we stay with our old idea where it is more interesting and less way complicated, admin should not change our ideas, please put back your minds, we all want to first one.

Thanks!

CustomCandles replied:

This is a great idea.

There is no reason why we cannot run more than one competition.  We could have a different sort of competition each month.

I dont think that admin has dismissed the idea of doing any other competition, they just have this one as well.  I dont see any harm in that.

We are looking at what sort of competitions to have.

Its hard to decide that on a site like this, with so many people coming in.

We could have a competion for the post that gets the most replies.

A competition for the most interesting topic.

Its hard to get this up and going, so I think the bidding competition is a great start.

SaucyKath replied:

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I dislike that new competition idea i say we stay with our old idea where it is more interesting and less way complicated, admin should not change our ideas, please put back your minds, we all want to first one.

Thanks!

UMMMMMM PARDON!!!!   adulttoysatdj please remember that when you are posting your replys that you are not speaking on behalf of us all.   This is the 2nd post I've seen of yours this morning that says we all want this or something similar ???

On behalf of myself - and me only - I would like to say that I think the more competitions the merrier!!   I like the idea of the 2nd competition you mentioned partyplans and I DO NOT dislike it.   Of course I love the idea of the 1st competition as well (since I came up with it) - but any thing that is easy to organise will be fun I'm sure.

anadesigns replied:

  Quote:

I dislike that new competition idea i say we stay with our old idea where it is more interesting and less way complicated, admin should not change our ideas, please put back your minds, we all want to first one.

Thanks!

partyplans replied:

 hehehe

adulttoysatdj replied:

Sorry guys,

I was really tired last night will actually was very sick, but I was typing and half asleep and now that I am awake more I realize the more the merrier, sorry I hope you can all forgive me. Anyways I think both competitions are great and I look forward to seeing more of them, however I do believe personally that we should still have the first one and I don’t mind if we have the second one.

SaucyKath replied:

Can someone tell me if anything came of the Monthly Competion for best Topic posted idea?   I'm just back from Cairns - and as I put my hand up to be judge for October, I'm not really sure if it all happened or not ????

If its all gone by the way side - no worries - just don't want to sound like I'm renegging on my promise to judge as I'm still quite happy too.

Kath

marina replied:

Fantastic idea for the montly competition for best Topic.

Count me in as a  volunteer judge and happy to donate a prize as  well.

have a great weekend girls and guys

marina

adulttoysatdj replied:

Just checking, has the competitions started yet or not.

partyplans replied:

The "best topic" competition will be implemented 'soonish'.

The idea will be to place voting / rate this topic buttons at the bottom of every post. That way everyone can be a judge.

The inbuilt rules would be simple:

• one vote per member per topic
• members can't vote on their own topic (IP address is checked too.. so you cannot use multiple usernames)
• must have a minimum number of votes (eg 10) to be considered for the prize (ie 2 votes with average score 9 is not as good as 24 votes with an average of score of 8)

SaucyKath replied:

Great idea PP!       Look forward to it.    Kath

Zammy replied:

I'd be up for this!
Have there been any more plans made to go ahead with the best topic game??

partyplans replied:

Yes. This will be implemented.

We still need to work out the benifits for prize sponsers

(Ideas?)

Prizes should be in the $50-$100 retail value range, so sponsers should get some quality advertising space etc.

Current thinking is to give an exclusive full size banner ad on every page of the forum for the duration of the sponsered competition (ie A big colourfull banner in place of the google ads you currently see)

Once over, the sponsers ad would then remain in the "competition winners archive"

...problem is that prizes may need to be bigger for that

(So far today, we have had over 200 unique visitors and we are not in peak time yet)

There are quite a few business owners on here, so I am interested in your thoughts. (actually interested in everyones thoughts!)