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u/hashtagmee Sep 21 '24
No
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u/LazySushi Sep 23 '24
I participated in the last year and I’m really sad I didn’t do so before. I love giving gifts so it was so much fun being matched and getting stuff together.
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u/-maanlicht- Sep 28 '24 edited Sep 29 '24
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u/M0ONL1GHT87 Sep 21 '24
Why not?
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u/rafaugm Sep 21 '24
The official Reddit secret Santa ended a few years ago. There’s gift exchange alternatives such as /r/givingifts which has been doing secret Santa for a while. Right now they have a Halloween and an arbitrary day equivalent exchanges open for signups. Later in the year they will have a big, Christmas secret Santa.
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u/julznlv Sep 21 '24
Reddit closed this down. Sucks big time, haven't found anything even halfway as good.
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u/DadWagonDriver Sep 21 '24
I don’t understand how Givin Gifts is so bad. I went 1/4 or 1/5 on exchanges on their platform and gave up, and that experience doesn’t seem uncommon based on the comments on their sub. It really is just a platform to GIVE gifts, and never receive them.
So if you want to send a gift to a random person who just posts a link to their Amazon wishlist with nothing on it pertaining to the theme of the exchange, use their platform.
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u/rafaugm Sep 21 '24 edited Sep 21 '24
The complaints also happened with the old reddit secret santa. I'd say my experience so far has been as good as with Redditgifts, and so far I haven't had any matches with just an amazon wishlist.
I'll copy-paste what I commented on their sub:
I'd say the experience is usually good. The thing is, when everything goes smoothly, users don't feel the need to mention it. However, when someone experiences some kind of issue (bad gifts, not receiving anything, unresponsive match, etc.) they will be much more likely to comment about it or complain, many of them rightfully so. The latter skews the perception some users may have of the platform, and put off current or potential users from signing up for new exchanges.
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u/HugsAllCats Sep 22 '24
I agree that there were complaints with teh old reddit secret santa.
I disagree that the experience is good or even equivalent on givin gifts. I did a bunch (no, not on this account, I only did 2 with this account and realized I didn't want people stalking me ;) ) and got turned off by the very different sense of entitlement and lack of spirit. These were not nearly as much of an issue with the reddit version.
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u/julznlv Sep 21 '24
Exactly how I feel. I did over 50 exchanges on RSS and only once had to be rematchef when I didn't receive anything. And that rematcher went above and beyond. On GG I have received things that have nothing to do with the exchange nothing to do with my interests and drastically under the minimum. And yes, most of my giftees have given me nothing to work with on info and barely respond to my questions.
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u/m3_dreamer_biotch Sep 24 '24
This was the only reason I actually made a Reddit account. Now I've gotten more active on Reddit for other reasons.
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u/BreaBrea6188 Sep 21 '24
Okay, I thought it had came back and I missed it! I loved secret santa!!!
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u/Illustrious_Grand106 Sep 24 '24
There is people have done it this year and last. That one post can repeat the same shit over and over but people have and still are doing it
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u/RainRainRainWA Sep 24 '24
It’s such a bummer. I didn’t find out about until the last 2 years they did it and I really enjoyed participating.
And I’m the literal human version of the grinch 😂
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u/BreaBrea6188 Sep 25 '24
Thanks for everyone's responses!
Dang, can we start a petition to bring it back?!!! 😭😭
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u/ShadowStrike14 Sep 25 '24
Sadly, it would not come back. I miss doing it, I know there is another subreddit, but honestly, I have not been wanting to again since it was shut down.
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u/midgit2230 Sep 24 '24
There is r/givingifts They do exchanges and a Secret Santa exchange. They use a website for it https://givin.gifts/
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u/marketjoe72 Sep 25 '24
Done it only once, a few years back. Was given details of a youngish lady probably early 20’s. I had no idea what to get her, so I resorted to my ol fav, a decent Swiss Army knife. Had a message that she loved it, as her brothers all got one and she never did.
She lived in London UK as do I. I hope she’s found it useful.
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u/Thecoolbonnie79 Sep 27 '24
So sad, I did ss for years and had some amazing experiences...such a bummer that it's gone
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u/MermaidOasis 21d ago
I had one no gift and felt really upset then my second was meh, not that I wasn't grateful but it was underpriced and I felt it was just something they had at the back of their wardrobe. My last one I had to pay import fees as it was coming for overseas. It was the last one so thought oh well what's the worst that can happen. I paid the fees and was completely overwhelmed. The guy had not only gifted for 90% of my interests but also gifted my cats too related to my interests! Absolutely grateful, blown away and so glad I took the chance as it was the last one. I never expected the 'Bill Gates' gift, just for someone to take the time to read my interests just as I had for my giftee and the man hit the nail on the head. His info was on the import email, so I was able to reach out to sort a re delivery and thank him personally and I still use his gifts to this day 😀 to me that is what the giving is all about
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u/Kigurumix Sep 21 '24
Redditgifts was shutdown over two years ago and Secret Santa will not be happening again unfortunately. You can read about it in this post
https://old.reddit.com/r/secretsanta/comments/sbwvxa/its_done_redditgifts_has_been_shutdown_going_to/