#makingithappen - Week 1 Winner

[alan@ebay]

Congratulations to seller Jon Z. for winning a $500 eBay gift card for showing us how he's #makingithappen on eBay. Want to get in on some sweepstakes action? Here's how: https://community.ebay.com/t5/makingithappen/ct-p/makingithappen

[mg152]

Congrats Jon Z.

[auctionpet]

50 million sellers....1 prize a week! I think sellers deserve better odds than that.

Supposedly random with submissions from various channels. How do you randomize online submissions, it's not like drawing out of a hat.

Congrats to all the winners!

[a_c_green]

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@auctionpet wrote:
50 million sellers....1 prize a week! I think sellers deserve better odds than that.

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It's not an automatic entry; you have to actively send in an entry accompanied by a photo, so the pool of actual entrants is considerably less than 50 million. 

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@auctionpet wrote:
Supposedly random with submissions from various channels. How do you randomize online submissions, it's not like drawing out of a hat.

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Gee, I dunno... I could probably think of some way to do it. If I was running the contest, maybe I'd just compile one text file with each entrant's name on a separate line, see how many lines/entrants there were, then throw dice or something to come up with a random number that falls within that range, go to that line number in my text file, and boom, there's my winner. Easy peasey lemon squeezy. 

[alan@ebay]

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@auctionpet wrote:
50 million sellers....1 prize a week! I think sellers deserve better odds than that.

Supposedly random with submissions from various channels. How do you randomize online submissions, it's not like drawing out of a hat.

Congrats to all the winners!

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Have you entered yet? You gotta be in it to win it. 

We haven't had 50 million entries by the way. 

[pauyo_43]

Hahaha.....live vicariously off my stardom. 😉

[pauyo_43]

Not everybody will enter but there surely will be a winner. 😊

[castlemagicmemories]

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@pauyo_43 wrote:
Hahaha.....live vicariously off my stardom. 😉

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My eyes!  My eyes!  Your stardom is so bright, I need sunglasses!  

[castlemagicmemories]

Yes, the 50 million count would be assuming everyone would enter.  That is highly improbable, IMO.

Actually, I think this is a neat idea to give back to sellers and to generate some enthusiasm, and holiday cheer!

(To those reading:  I'm ducking for cover!  Please be kind, I'm old and fragile, LOL)

I still think it is a neat idea.

[castlemagicmemories]

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@membersinceaug2001 wrote:

Someone should re-use Amazon boxes!  Stuff would likely get delivered faster too!

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[mountainmommie]

Hey Alan - 

Can I run a Seller Santa contest for the holiday on the selling board? Each seller gets to nominate one buyer from their past year.  MountainMommie would donate.  Run it for a week. I would not nominate anyone personally so it's all legit.  It would require sellers listing a buyer username on here and I would maybe need help notifying/crediting the winning buyer. 

It would be awesome to give a winning buyer some spending money from the "eBay Sellers Board." And we could see stories from fellow sellers about their best sale this year instead of the typical worst. 

Jackie

[castlemagicmemories]

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@membersinceaug2001 wrote:

Someone should re-use Amazon boxes!  Stuff would likely get delivered faster too!

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Not only that, it would be musical when the boxes start to sing!

[alan@ebay]

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@mountainmommie wrote:

Hey Alan - 

Can I run a Seller Santa contest for the holiday on the selling board? Each seller gets to nominate one buyer from their past year.  MountainMommie would donate.  Run it for a week. I would not nominate anyone personally so it's all legit.  It would require sellers listing a buyer username on here and I would maybe need help notifying/crediting the winning buyer. 

It would be awesome to give a winning buyer some spending money from the "eBay Sellers Board." And we could see stories from fellow sellers about their best sale this year instead of the typical worst. 

Jackie

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Hi @mountainmommie, 

For privacy reasons, I don't think it would be appropriate to list your buyer's user IDs on a public board without their prior approval. 

Thanks