KarenHolt said: ...
About the stars. I see Rick's point, but I really like Dnd's better. I do like that element of surprise. It's what really makes the bidding fun for me. If I don't get what I want, there's always next year or another swap sometime.
I'm converted. Knowing too much ahead of time, or automating it too much, would remove some of the fun.
I loved Ella's Piggy Swap because we
talked about greedy squealing and oinking and jostling for seeds "like pigs". It was like a cook serving something so tasty that the whole table forgot its manners and just dug in with both hands. Of course people were actually very polite and hugely generous and perfectly considerate, but it was fun describing ourselves as "piggies".
But I like Dave's software MUCH better than the "by-hand" way of having to keep 2-3 lists of incoming, outgoing and requested trades. Request it by email and on a thread, wait for reply, update thread and thank the person by email, update multiple lists. For each seed packet. Too much bookkeeping.
