Message from the Soap Box: Prizes and the Contacting of Donators

Topic: Prizes and the Contacting of Donators

Really, this is the last time I’m going to bring this topic up before I simply stop donating to your rafflecopters, events, and giveaways, which I LOVE to do, but honestly this is getting to be a bit much.

When you collect donations from authors, bloggers, swag makers, etc, you are OBLIGATED to contact the donator with the winner’s information. OBLIGATED! We are not mind readers. We are NOT in charge of YOUR giveaways. This is YOUR responsibility to let us know who won the items we promised to give.

It is unfair to contact a winner telling them they won this or that and that so and so will contact them when you haven’t contacted so and so.

It is unfair to have a winner wait MONTHS for a prize when you didn’t feel you needed to contact the donator to let them know who won.

We aren’t supposed to keep track of YOUR giveaways, YOU are.

We can not contact our winners if we don’t know who they are.

Get your acts together guys or you’ll not only lose your fans, you’ll lose your reputation and your donators. Really think about if trying to smear a donator’s name is really worth the ramifications it’ll cost you in the end