Post #254979 by hanford_lemoore on Sun, Sep 17, 2006 4:01 PM

I want to clarify a few things. There's really two issues here: 0. I limited the sale of the mugs for people who had one post before Stuckie's heads-up.

1. My announcement of #1 was made after all the mugs were assigned, which meant that some were going to have their mugs reassigned.

As for the first issue: It's the right thing to do, regardless of when it was announced. It stops fake profiles. It gets mugs into the hands of people who have been participating on Tiki Central. It's also in the same spirit as the last special sale I did, which was Shag's Grand Member prints. When I launched that sale they were available only to TCers who were Grand Members the day before the announcement. I didn't do it this way because of complaints. I did it this way because it was in keeping with the spirit of who the product was intended for.

As for the second: was announcing a qualification after the fact the right thing to do? I believe so. I was not about to sit on my hands and say "oh well, what's done is done" simply to save myself some embarrassment when clearly the wrong thing had taken place. I don't believe in "stick to your guns, even when you know you're wrong". I had a chance to correct it, so I did. I understand the disappointment, and I take full responsibility for it. To those who didn't get mugs: I'm very sorry. Like I said before, we live and learn, and I'll do my best in the future to make sure things like this don't happen again.

Regards,

~Hanford