Comments on Calamity Anne's Adventures: For The Love Of Pete...Just Let Us Know

butt trumpeting=best image ever! i love this post...

2011-05-03T13:03:31.264-05:00

butt trumpeting=best image ever! i love this post, and therefore your friend. i hate when they say you need to contact me, especially when someone has an email/blog. it's different when the giveawayer has no way to contact the person. i just went on vacation, so should that mean that since i didn't get back to someone in 48 hours i shouldn't get to win my prize? hella no. and how bout this-i won something recently and contacted the person who offered their goods as the prize. it's like 3 weeks, and still no prize has arrived. what shall i do? i don't want to contact them and be like, where's my 50 dollar gifts that you said you were sending to me, but really. where are my gifts you were sending to me! maybe i'll post about this. hehe.

Hi, I am fairly new to the blogging world and have...

2011-05-01T02:24:33.887-05:00

Hi, I am fairly new to the blogging world and haven't really done alot of giveaways. although I am running my first giveaway and can't believe that some people do that. I think if you run a contest that you should contact the winner.
I love your new grill. So cool.
AJ

Ummmm, can you say ironic 'cause I'm readi...

2011-04-29T11:50:10.398-05:00

Ummmm, can you say ironic 'cause I'm reading this you won the giveway on my blog? TOOO funny!

Of course, the grill beats the hell out of the prize I offerred, so you may not scream like a banshee, but how about a lil happy dance?

Hit me with your addy at theoldblockhouse@hotmail.com

I'll work up a post in a bit to announce that you won and include links to your blog and Etsy store to try to send ya some additional traffic.

Love your bottle tree. Wonder if they make tiny solar lights to put in the bottles?

I completely agree - I once won a $25 credit to us...

2011-04-28T15:24:02.211-05:00

I completely agree - I once won a $25 credit to use on a lady's Etsy site through a blog I follow and the deal was I had to pick what I wanted, PAY FOR IT, then she would send me the refund. Uh. No. That's not winning. That's a discount. And postage wasn't included, either. Classy.
P.S. You can follow me if you like - but I have nothing but opinions and such to give away (:
cannaryfamily.blogspot.com

Ok, I just gotta say, where in the world have I be...

2011-04-28T08:31:00.768-05:00

Ok, I just gotta say, where in the world have I been. I love all your signs in your Etsy shop. I especially love the Suck What one! Awesome. I wonder if I hung it on the deck what the neighbors would say!

Meg

I so agree with this! Apparantly I won some sungl...

2011-04-28T08:28:52.565-05:00

I so agree with this! Apparantly I won some sunglasses and I didn't know it. This gal finally contacted me and said that she had been waiting for me to contact her, huh, what? How would I have known. I like you don't go back and check to see if I won. Anyhoo, I gave her my info and I still haven't rec'd them. I pray each time I come home that we are robbed. For all I know it was a scam and now she has my address, crap!

That grill is gorgeous, when is the barbeque and what can I bring?

Megan

I agree about contacting the winners! I have misse...

2011-04-27T23:51:39.860-05:00

I agree about contacting the winners! I have missed out on a giveaway that I won because she posted the winner (me) in a text box on top of where her posts went, but I read most blogs through google reader, which won't show me that text box. Then when I missed out on the giveaway I won (which I actually wanted) she posted on facebook that since I didn't contact her, I'd missed out and she was giving it away to another random winner.

I was so upset by it that I stopped following her blog, and have not missed it since then.

Congratulations on your awesome win. I too have en...

2011-04-27T22:02:47.277-05:00

Congratulations on your awesome win. I too have entered many bloggers giveaways. Some have contacted me to let me know I won and I sent my info to them but never get what I supposedly won. 3 of the times I won I actually received what I won. They k now who they are and the others ...well I won't bother entering their giveaways with jumping to this friends page and following their blog and going to their Etsy shop and letting them know what I would like to have from there. i think it is just a way to get traffic to their friends shop to buy from them. AAAAAAAAArgh! I can't feel like I lost anything because I never got it to begin with but dadgum I was excited about getting it and checking the mail box for it. Ha the joke was on me for those times. Sorry it happened to your friend and thanks for mentioning it on your blog so the word will spresd to those that are not properly following through with their giveaways. And Yes it is common courtesy to inform the winner as well as send the item.

Copngrats on that awesome grill!! My little charc...

2011-04-27T20:18:57.656-05:00

Copngrats on that awesome grill!! My little charcoal grill sways in the wind it's so rusty and falling apart. :)

And I couldn't agree more on the giveaways! I don't even enter them anymore because I can't stand all the hoops. I understand being a follower of their blog, but outside that, all the other requirements wear me out. I follow too many blogs to jump all over for a giveaway. They simply do it to get more hits on their blog.

Ditto on the giveaways....but I do love that grill...

2011-04-27T18:36:03.479-05:00

Ditto on the giveaways....but I do love that grill!!! Lucky duck....

OMG Anne..your friends rant sounds like one of min...

2011-04-27T17:24:55.132-05:00

OMG Anne..your friends rant sounds like one of mine..LMAO.

I enter very few contests on blogs..okay..actually 2. I always enter Ree's because she posts clear rules and tells the winners who they are..she also has some seriously cool sh*t that she offers in the contests. I mean really...the kitchenaid mixer done up like the art on the cover of her first cookbook...I still weep over that one..lol.

The other one that I actually won was naming rights for one of four kittens being currently fostered at Space Paws..yeah me !

Both contests are run clearly and fairly.

People who make their winners come to them to check need to put their big girl panties on and use what little common sense and manners the good Lord gave 'em and their Mama's taught 'em.

Oh..I almost ranted there .wheeee.

Waving from 2 Allen Center

Aunty Pol

Whoa baby! That is one beautiful grill. So happy...

2011-04-27T15:47:29.542-05:00

Whoa baby! That is one beautiful grill. So happy for you, may you have many happy hours out in the yard together! I have to buy a new grill this year. Our Weber is 30 years old and the wood handles on it have finally dried up and fell off. That is only the newest diaster to befall my sweet loyal friend.
Ad K.

OK, can I add my 2 cents? I love giveaways too bUT...

2011-04-27T12:22:09.877-05:00

OK, can I add my 2 cents? I love giveaways too bUT I HATE it when you have to go here, come back, go someplace else, do this, do that. I ahve seen giveways with like 5, 6, 7 rules!!!!!!!!! It is too much, I don't bother. Thanks!!!! Copngrats on your win, the grill is gorgeous! I am jealous, ours is UGLY!!!!!!!!! XO, Pinky

hahahaha -- I could not agree more! ...and you ha...

2011-04-27T12:04:44.107-05:00

hahahaha -- I could not agree more! ...and you have said it SO WELL that there is nothing more which I could add.

I couldn't have said it better myself- I am so...

2011-04-27T08:54:38.835-05:00

I couldn't have said it better myself- I am soooo annoyed at the hoops and the lack of courtesy to the winner.
That grill kicks butt!

Thanks everyone...it's good to know that I'...

2011-04-27T08:05:40.827-05:00

Thanks everyone...it's good to know that I'm not the only one who thinks this way!!!

By the way...my much anticipated new grill will be replacing one that's sitting on bricks because the wheels rusted off, and there's the chance of it blowing up because the venturi is disintegrating (hooked up to natural gas). It's a disaster waiting to happen!!!

Well, you are certainly on your soapbox today! Be ...

2011-04-27T07:10:53.063-05:00

Well, you are certainly on your soapbox today! Be careful when you step down! I do agree though, that people should contact the winner via email, or maybe visit that person's blog to tell them they won. And that is some beautiful picture of that grill you won -- Congratulations! And it's a Viking? Wow, you are so lucky! You'd better run and buy some lottery tickets, you may be on a lucky streak!
Best,
Gloria

Nope I love it Anne! I always contact my winners, ...

2011-04-27T06:17:23.374-05:00

Nope I love it Anne! I always contact my winners, of course, I am excited for them too! Sorry for your friend, that just stinks.

I have a sneaking suspicion that it's all a ru...

2011-04-27T04:09:03.097-05:00

I have a sneaking suspicion that it's all a ruse in which to make everyone revisit the host's blog and create more 'hits' for another day.

I agree with you and your friend, but, then again, I was raised to be a comprehensive hostess....the old school way.
:)

Go you! I totally agree! That is one beautiful g...

2011-04-27T00:17:51.289-05:00

Go you! I totally agree! That is one beautiful grill! I have a very pathetic grill that I have had for 11 years so I am very jealous! I think I need to enter a grill giveaway!