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Seasons Beatings Miniture Exchange

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#1 ·
kay this is the time for the christmas exchange so we are back . So grab your fuzzy bunny slippers and get ready for a fun exchange. Read all the rules and look at some changes that we have made. I hope everyone will have fun with this one.

Rule change this exchange will allow you to send a converted or painted model as a suprise to your giftee if you want in addition to the regular models.



Any fraud, lying, gimping, etc. won't be the fault of Heresy-Online.net.

Heresy will (in severe cases) do what it can, such as member-inqueries/reports such as the "Good/Bad Trader" bit, but of course, Heresy can not do very much at all, and would have no obligation to do so.

The sending of the gifts would be the business of the individuals involved, SOLELY.

Please read the Rules!
What is the miniature exchange?:santa:


Basically, Heresy Online members sign up for the event and are randomly assigned to other forum members. Everyone digs through their pile of bits, blisters and other Games Workshop miniatures, picks two models and sends them off to their randomly matched partner. so long as they meet the $15 or £7 minimum requirement.

For the folks with limited funds you can sign up and elect to ship locally. How do you sign up? Well, I’ll get to that after…


So what are the rules? Glad you asked,

THE RULES

1) You must send at least two miniatures individual troopers. Although we have let just one large model count as the two. YOU WILL NOT GET THESE BACK, so make sure you don't send anything you still want. In other exchanges there has been a tendency to send more than two miniatures. This is acceptable but not to be expected. The rule is two. This is not a generosity contest. When you sign up, please put some money aside for the gift right then. If you do not have said funds, do not sign up. The overwhelming majority of excuses from most events are people not having enough money to actually purchase a gift for their giftee, so I want to nip this in the bud. I realize most of you won't know at the time of sign-up who you're getting or what you're going to be gifting, but it's not unreasonable to put twenty (ish) dollars aside for the event beforehand.
2) Based on miniatures preferences that your recipient will post when they register to be a part of the event you will then be prompted buy/convert/paint/whatever you deem suitable for a gift. All miniatures must be in an untouched state. This doesn't mean it has to be in a blister or on the sprue, however, just not mangled in any way and complete. No sending a single arm and counting that as a miniature. They must be able to assemble the whole thing. The minis are NOT to be painted, primed or glued. Exceptions to this rule are made by the participants and should be managed via private message. This includes any exception to the rules – if you want to send a glued, primed or converted model you *can* do so but you need permission from the person you’re sending to so if they put that they are happy to receive an assemble, painted model then you send it. They have every right to say no. Note that you can also send a painted, primed or converted model *in addition* to the two untouched minis but again this is not a generosity contest.

3) All miniatures must be part of a Games Workshop line of miniatures. This includes Warhammer, Warhammer 40k, Specialist Games, Forge World, Armorcast and related tournament legal models. The miniature must be tournament legal for the range. This is a Games Workshop tabletop gaming related forum so no exceptions to this rule will be allowed.

4) If you wish to participate, you must be around. Don't say “I want in” and then disappear off the face of the Earth for a month. I'm not saying you need to be a forum regular, but you should be checking at least this thread once per week and respond to any PM's sent to you.

5) If you do not hear from either the person you are sending to, or the person sending to you, within two weeks of the exchange list being posted you should PM me. Since most people belong to several forums they may not check here every day. Do not post to the thread publicly with comments like “still nothing” or “I haven’t heard from my partner.” Issues with members as relates to this exchange should be sent privately. In order for me to assist in resolution of potential issues I must know about them, however, so please do PM me if you think there’s a problem.

6) Failure to participate after signing up for the exchange will result in being banned from future exchanges. I will keep a list of banned participants and it will be published in subsequent exchanges.:security:

7) Do not request specific trading partners. If you want to be matched to a specific Heresy Online member I recommend you send that person a PM and do a 1:1 exchange. The Miniature Exchange works on a randomly generated list and is not meant to match specific members together.

8) FLAGGED status: Members who have less than 50 post at the time they sign up will be marked as FLAGGED. Nobody ships to a flagged participant until AFTER the minis that person ships have been received. If the flagged person bails we simply skip them in the list, this is also to make sure they send something before they get something.

Example:

Bob
Joe (FLAGGED)
Tom

Joe ships to Tom. Tom posts "I got minis!" and then Bob ships to Joe.

I will also mark anyone as FLAGGED if prompted to do so by any forum moderator based on previous behavior.

NOTE: In each of the exchanges I have participated in there has always been at least one member who didn’t receive anything. This can happen. It has, in fact, happened to me. While most folks are honest there is always a chance that things get lost in the post, that your partner spontaneously combusts or that Galahad will intercept the package in the post and eat your minis. These things can happen but I hope they don’t.

HOW TO SIGN UP

Please send me a PM with the following information. I am going to try the pm method to make it more of surprise when the package shows up and who is sending it.

Username – Mailing address – Shipping

The first should be obvious – it’s your Heresy Online username.

The second, your mailing address where you want receive your mini's this information will be forwarded only to your Santa.

Shipping is your shipping preference. If you are willing to pay for international post then put “anywhere” in this category. If you only want to ship within your country of origin this should be the same as Location. If you want to ship within the same geographic region, such as North America for someone in the USA or Canada, or EU for someone in Germany or the UK, that works too.

My own entry looks like this:

Morfangdakka
123 Choppa st.
Ork town,USA

Shipping:-anywhere

Please, please, PLEASE! use this format to sign up for the exchange.
I'd recommend you post the miniatures you collect, what system you collect as well as things you may already have a ton of and things you need or mini's you are interested in obtaining in this thread, as well. Too specific makes the gifting process a bit silly. List the games you wouldn't mind receiving minis from, as well as what you might already collect, so your gifter might have some starting point.

TIMELINE
Sign up starts NOW!
November31– list closes
November 6– folks can start shipping
January 1– all participants should have shipped their minis


How do you assign santas?
Utilizing super-secret scientific method and a crack team of genetically modified super monkeys, we assemble the Master Hersey Online List™ at a classified military installation two miles underneath the desert somewhere in Southern California. We pull names out of a hat. I will take things like location into account.
The one week delay between closing the list and the ship date allows me to make changes and PM people in the event of a mistake – such as assigning someone with USA shipping to a partner in Germany.

Some guidelines for receiving the gift:
Let your santa know it arrived! One less thing they have to worry about.
IMPORTANT:
Post in the thread that the package arrived, and show off what you got! Especially if it was converted or painted and post some pics. Your santa probably worked really hard on your gift plus we get to all drool all over what you got.

One last final point: While lurkers are welcome to participate, I reserve the right to use discretion in ruling people out of entry. If you have absolutely zero posts and you register on the boards to try and take part in this, I probably won't let you participate. Miniatures tend to be surprisingly expensive, and I really do not want somebody to try and take advantage of this whole event to just get free stuff.

THANK YOU Heresy Online

I want to thank the moderators and members of Heresy Online for having a community in which we can do this. I’m glad to see so many people excited about the miniature exchange and look forward to seeing how many folks we get to sign up on our first run. If this is successful I’ll plan on coordinating it twice per year.

If you want to participate but have a question or concern please post your concern or send me a PM and we’ll get things sorted out.
 
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#6 ·
Please send me your address again. I delete all the addresses once one exchange is done so please send it to me again.

Definitely signing up!
I would like Dwarfs, Orks (40k), Nurglesque Daemons or perhaps some Iron Hands. What's particularly preferred is models that are oop; think things similar to Drong the Hard, or, Slayer Doomseekers?
Please send me your address as well and you are in.
 
#3 ·
Definitely signing up!
I would like Dwarfs, Orks (40k), Nurglesque Daemons or perhaps some Iron Hands. What's particularly preferred is models that are oop; think things similar to Drong the Hard, or, Slayer Doomseekers?
 
#8 ·
I'm in too.

These days I mainly play 30k Emperor's Children, so Forge World stuff is greatly appreciated and preferred. But that costs an arm and a leg, so anything Space Marine/Blood Angel that is suitably pompous or decorative will do nicely, things like veterans, sanguinary guard, apothecaries and such like.

Alternatively, any of the Emperor's Children upgrade packs (shoulder pads, torsos, vehicle doors) would be much appreciated and are more affordable than a unit/model (in theory). So yeah, hopefully that enough to go on!

Looking forward to being part of this :drinks:
 
#10 ·
Yeah, count me in. Preference is Space Puppies, or CSM :)
 
#12 ·
I'm happy to join in for once! Been a rough ride juggling uni in a foreign country and the hobby, but I am in all the way!

As far as what I put on my list to Sant- er...the Emperor, I'd love some generic marine stuff (aka: if it ain't BA, DA, or SW I want it!), with a shoutout for any iron hands/ astral claws stuff people may have lying around.

P.S: Oh! And any stuff that would make for cool conversions! Like power mauls
P.P.S: and if anyone feels extra generous, forgeworld stuff would really make my year :)
 
#16 ·
Depending on my work schedule I will get the list posted by Dec. 2nd no later than Dec. 3rd.
 
#18 ·
TIMELINE
Sign up starts NOW!
November31– list closes
November 6– folks can start shipping
January 1– all participants should have shipped their minis
I'm just saying, because I believe this is something written wrong. Isn't it supposed to be "December 6- folks can start shipping"?
 
#20 · (Edited)
The List

here is the big list for Santas :santa:

Scscofield
Tawa
Drohar
Alasdair
Saintspirit
Deus Mortis
Jason Fly
Khorne's Fist
Moriouce
Count_the_Seven
Jace of Ultramar
Swedemarine
Sludig
Morfangdakka

Ok everyone here is the list. I tried to keep the international shipping to a minimum since the post is going to be a mess with the holidays. Again the person above ships to the person below and the person at the bottom ships to the one on the top of the list. Any questions or problems please pm me so we can try to straighten it out soon as possible.

Have a great Christmas and plenty of seasons beatings:good:
 
#21 ·
So, can we start shipping or do we wait until the 6th?
 
#22 ·
It is best to wait just in case there is problem and I have to change the list around about who ships to who. It hasn't happened in many years but it has happened. I like to give it a few days just to make sure there are no issues.
 
#23 ·
Shipped. Should be with you within a week or so.
 
#24 ·
I shall be shipping on Friday afternoon. Unless I get collared to work late again, in which case it will be Saturday morning :good:
 
#25 ·
Shipped. Hope you will be happy with it!
 
#26 ·
Stoked mate :wink:
 
#29 ·
Ended up working all weekend, but I've - literally - just got back from the post office :good:
 
#31 ·
Well it is seasons beatings! so have yourself a good go of it on your poor love squirrel.
 
#33 ·
Hey guys. I think I have the privilege of being the first one to receive my gift. Many thanks to @Saintspirit for my present. No doubt you will see these in my project log as these help my IIIrd Legion to grow. Any who, here they are, some nice legion upgrades. Once again, I am extremely thankful :eek:k:



 
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