Thanks for hosting a swap, DnD!
>> "The minimum packet contribution is currently only set at 3 packets (of any quantity)."
Does that mean we must offer at least 3 pkts each of whatever varieties we offer? Like, "at least 3 pkts of Merveille des Quatre Saisons Butterhead Lettuce"?
Or that we can join while offering as few as three packets, total, of anything?
I was worried that "Jan 4" wouldn't give me time to split some seeds that arrived recently, what with the holiday season. But if we only need to offer three varieties TOTAL, that's easy-peasey and I'll just list whatever is split and labelled and counted before the swap starts. I think I have 20+ things listed already that, in theory, I should not need to re-count before offering.
(But I had BETTER re-count them so I'm sure they are there. In the last swap, the ONLY seed that I was SURE I had plenty of without searching and counting ... was all-out! I had to apologize and offer substitutes.)
I've been worrying that my seeds from 2012 or 2011 are just so old that they wouldn't be welcome. Do you have a preference, like "nothing older than 'packed for 2013'? I always put OLD SEED in my description if there's more than 3 years difference between the "packed for" date and the calendar date.
I think you're brave to offer an "all hands, all seeds" swap. We have over 32,000 members ... just sayin'!
You might get 30,000 people curious about the new swap feature, or 32,185 people might wait for their special interest to come up.
If it were me, I might use that "Maximum number of participants?" field to limit it to the first 300 people. Or 100.
If you have more members than your living room can hold, you might have to divide the incoming packages first into 26 piles of "names beginning with A ... names beginning with B ..." and then later divide each of those piles into "TO Aaron ... TO Abigal ... ".
