Payback swap! MUST read about this one!

What is the time frame to have the project made up and sent back? This sounds like fun!!

Love your idea! In this case we don't need to keep it profile exact, right? We send colors and pictures we like, because the product will be ours anyway at the end?

this sounds like fun :) but i'm 2nding the question blonde998 posted...

I don't have any way to enforce a time frame for the return. I will note in the description a send by date, but need input as to how long you think it should take...Is a week past the due date sufficent? You do NOT have to check profiles for this swap! The reason for this is...if my partner is into skeletons and Halloween, and I'm not, then I won't have any scraps that will accomodate. PLUS since the completed item is coming back to you you will want something that you do like in return! PLUS, BONUS, IF you get a partner who doesn't like what you do, it will cause them to step out of their comfort zone to create something they might not have otherwise attempted! They can always return the extras in the envelope with the completed project if they don't think they will ever use them. Thanks for joining! This should be a blast!

How fun. This will be cool.

I've done one of these before, but the person who is to make something is the one who got rated, not the person who sends the "parts." IOW, we sent our "parts" to the person who is assigned to send to US. The due date of the swap was for the person to make something (in our case, a collage) and send it back and we rated the person who made the item. It worked out really well this way. It's easy to send an envy of stuff to get a rating, but once you get the stuff, what is to motivate you to spend a lot of time and care creating a project and sending it out when you won't even get rated for it and won't get a "1" if you never actually do it? Just putting this out there for consideration. I can see where you might have a lot of flakers (who won't even get called on it) if you rate the "parts" senders instead of the project creators.

I agree with what euphoria says!! I would love to participate in this swap if we get to "SEND" to the person who is to send to us and we rate them on the Completed project, that solves your due date problem, too.

Me too! I would be totally into that!

I understand Euphoria's point about this, but I see one problem. It seems like an awful lot of work for each person to have to be responsible for making sure the person they swap with has their address. How do you keep track of that? Also, the rating for this swap isn't so much for the final product as it is the "parts". The final product is a "bonus". I will definitely make sure to stress in the description, that the return is NOT a given. What is a given is that everyone who plays will get rated on the items that they send-hopefully not crap or they will be rated accordingly AND they will have an envelope of parts to play with. In a perfect world, there would be no flakers. Since we don't live there, we can only hope that anyone who joins this swap and doesn't "bless" the sender with a completed card will not be allowed to participate in future swaps. I will definitely keep track and I will definitely drop a flaker in a heartbeat from any future swap of mine. Euphoria, if you want to host the swap you are referring to, please feel free, no hard feelings.

Kimi, there was no work at all to sending the address; we only had one person to PM our address to. And because you're going to get something back that is made with the parts you send, it would be really foolish to send crappy parts. Anyway, I just thought I'd throw the idea in for consideration. I hope the swap goes well; it's a really fun idea and I enjoyed the collage swap I joined with the same concept. :)

omg this swap sounds like a blast... cannot wait to do this!!!

i would love to do this!