I had planned to send an e-mail but I forgot all about it. Did anyone else completely forget about this giveaway?

I probably wouldn't have won anyway but I thought it would be fun to try. I actually had a lot of fun thinking about strategies.

I just hope the Dogs got most of the stuff.

I planned my evening around being in place for the SantaGanzaaaa -- I took a nap, started composing my email an hour beforehand, and put family on notice not to call because I wouldn't answer the phone between 9 and 10. I'm still stoked enough that I'll need whiskey, I think I'll go with Rye, to get to sleep.

nope, just got frustrated trying to figure out how the hell to enter. Then BF crashed and i couldn;t do anything. I had no idea when to enter, because i couldn't see when the Go post was put up. (and i'm on a T1 connection - once all the HOG computer geeks started crashing BF, it took me 90 minutes to fricking get 3% of Bladeforums loaded up in 45 minutes). Normally i can upload 30,000 to 50,000 HD photos in less a minute........

might just be me, but this is (ganza) a, IMHO, a bit of a waste of time for those of us with only one computer and in different time zones.

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yeah i agree, but he's giving away free knives, no complaint from me.

I didn't bother

I live in belgium with a six hour difference in time zone , for me it was middle of the night! But I was ready for it <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> !!!
It was fun!!

@MRpink: You also went for the SG16, how fast was your mail sended? Did you had a lot of problems to get on bladeforums ?

I hope mine was faster <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />


Greets,

There were times that I was blocked (especially just before 9:00 PM), but I had surprisingly good connectivity with BladeForums.com last night. However, while I'm not sure where the BladeForums hosts physically reside, that the site is a venture owned by the user "Spark" (Kevin Jon Schlossberg - Owner, BladeForums.com and & OneStopKnifeShop.com).

The physical address of OneStopKnifeShop.com is 245 Hubbards Lane / Louisville, KY 40207. That's within 15 miles of my house, so if the BladeForums.com and & OneStopKnifeShop.com host servers are local to his brick-and-mortar business, then they're also close to me too. The Louisville, KY area is a great place to live if you collect Bussekins -- you're only one state away (and at a major shipping hub) when knives are sent out, it's where Eric (of Swamp Rat) lives, and the Busse crew comes to town every Spring and Fall for Knob Creek.

How far are you from West Flanders?

I didn't know Bladeforums crashed. That is kind of funny.

I also didn't know Bladeforums was owned by the same people who owned OneStopKnifeShop.com. That explains a few things.

now i'm ************** pissed off. Seems certain email providers (gmail, hotmail) got thru fine, while others (hushmail) got BLOCKED/BOUNCED, like my inquiry this morning.

I prefer give-aways that are based on people placing a post and then a number generator picking whatever post numbers win...seems a little more fair than the complicted Ganza ideas !!!

I prefer give-aways where you have to complete a task like, oh let's say... building a debris shelter to win a knife.

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'Cause I win those. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />