Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-34236190-20180415191911/@comment-35319541-20180416020621

Hi all. this is Lola. A very kind person(unidentified) helped me with an account on this site! So Sweet eh! Anyway, I have been keeping a spreadsheet per say since about Feb. after reading thru the posts on here. I also do not like to x friends but sometimes feel it is necessary. I put a box around a friend who has not visited or sent a freebee and give it a week, look at the past history and then decide maybe it is time to part ways. I have had some friends since I started although a rare few there are. I hate to take visiting into consideration and won't at this time as there have been so many issues, I am not even sure all my CIs have been recieved as like you said the WL never changes, but I can go to my sheets and see who I have sent what to when I see that WL. If I have sent one and it is still there unless I have like 5-6 of them I do not send another. If on the second send it is still there, I won't send it again if there was no response to the first two ie: thanks, or a return CI perhaps. Right now I know most friends are recieving the CIs I sent because they take them off their list pretty quickly. But after 4-5 CI's going to them and nothing in return except the freebee after 2 weeks, well.... by the third week maybe x.

I have lots of friends at lower levels than myself so I do take that into consideration, as you would be amazed that by adding a lower CI (for something I need-eyeglasses ) gets an astonishing response! I use those extras to send on the next, kind of a win win there and I do try my best to return something for every CI I get, thus the random CIs although I now try to see what that friends collections is for and hope I have something with the same end result. I just took on some friends that I believe were not on here and see nothing... a few more days and x.

That goes for the fixers, I am never sure about those either, I have been trying to send them individually say 4 times for a day or two. I do like it when everyone adds to their name what passes they want and try to go heavier on those, but have quit sending out fixers to everyone unless it is an upper one or there are multiple friends requesting them.

Fixer Friday, I am in a quandery about. I will send 4-5 as a group and then some WL individually but I feel there are more friends who would prefer passes, so hence.... passes win. Remember, most have at least 50 or more other friends sending those as well.

Am I going about it the wrong way??? I do not know but if I am I believe I would be getting x'd out too.

Sorry I got so winded. wow. lola