Hi Sitar_Ned, well done to you for organising this and being as transparent as you have been with the process. Obviously, given my vocal objection to the way the sponsor has treated people on this site re a certain frame, I didn't enter but I do have a question for you if I may.

What is to stop anyone that has seen this thread from email Eddy and saying they are mwh0169?  Would it not have been better that initial contact between the two was done through PM here?

Just a thought, and again, thanks and well done.

Well, you are correct, anyone could just email Eddy and pretend to be the winner. I didn't put all of the steps out there just for the sake of simplicity but there are steps going on in the background via PM where mwh0169's identity has been verified by me and given to Eddy.

As for your reasoning for not entering the contest, I can certainly respect that moral stance, sir. That said, this contest, or any going forward, should not be seen as a backing of the vendor by myself or the board.

Any vendor that sponsors a contest has a reputation that is entirely separate from the event and stands alone according to how they treat customers, imo. I see it more as paid advertising where the community is the beneficiary.

Also, I'm going to split this topic off into a separate thread. My logic for this is that the winner announcement thread is a paid-for promotional thread (I'm referring to the price of the frame for the giveaway). I didn't want you to feel censored so I didn't want to delete your post so I just split it off.

Hopefully, you can respect that. If you think this is faulty logic, please do voice your thoughts as I am still learning how to fairly moderate and manage a community such as this and am certainly open to input.

Thanks,
Sitar

As a side note, the one thing I don't like about these giveaways is that everyone has to put their trust in me to conduct a fair contest and, as far as I can tell, there isn't really a good way to choose a winner that would allow you all to witness the drawing process. I thought there would be some type of app or something, but not that I could find... So, just for those that may be interested, all I did was list all of the valid entries in a spreadsheet and and go to Google's random number generator and input the amount of entries and took the first result. In the future, if anyone has any better ideas, I'm open. Thanks to all that participated!

Well, this time the third page is loading fine for me so hopefully, it's also working for everyone that messaged me.

Please continue to use this thread and disregard the other thread with this title. Sorry for the confusion.

This topic has been moved to Component Deals & Selection .

http://chinertown.com/index.php?topic=3799.0

Hey Peter, welcome back!

Normally I would move this thread to the "Sales & Classifieds" section but as a one-time courtesy to you, I'll leave this thread here for now. In the future, please post sales threads in the appropriate section.

I'm posting this here not only for you to see but also for other vendors to see as well.

Thanks, hope all is well.
Sitar

Hey all,

Just getting the Chinertown Instagram profile started, and would appreciate follows and shares.

Find us at this link: https://www.instagram.com/chinertownforum/   
Or by searching for user @chinertownforum

Going to use this account as a place to aggregate pics of all of the custom builds on this site. Only have a few posted thus far, but will continue to add them. If you happen to see your build featured and you want your instagram account tagged/credited then just let me know. Also, if for some reason you don't want your pics/build featured at all on the Instagram account, then please just shoot me a message and I'll remove it. That said, I'll message each user here and alert them/ask permission to feature their build on the account.

We'll also use this as a place to announce giveaways and other promotions in the future!

Thanks for reading,
Sitar

This topic has been moved to Vendor Discussion & Reviews .

http://chinertown.com/index.php?topic=3778.0

Wow, this was great, thanks for sharing. My good friend is about to attempt painting his son's frame, I'll link him to this thread.