Here’s a benefit of being GCC, seeing the offers, planning that useless ‘budget’ some like to pretend to have, but NO PURCHASES from here today - only the other forum, the ‘Early Purchase Offers’ forum.
You’d be surprised how many people I’ve ‘caught’ trying to skirt the rules. I have eyes EVERYWHERE!
Already heard from one participants about three orders placed…will be addressing those accordingly!
I almost made this mistake a couple times, gotta keep those tabs organized…
One may be me–I wasn’t paying close enough attention to which forum I was in (this morning was pretty hectic–though not as much for me as for you guys!) My apologies if I messed up
You are forgiven for confessing.
Full disclosure: I did the exact same thing last year DOH! I was slammed with BD11 admin stuff and thought “oh, better buy this before I forget”. Wrong, it was in the preview forum.
Thank you–multi-tasking is not a strong suit of mine!
Good luck the rest of the day and tomorrow–hoping people are more careful/focused than I was this morning!
You purchased the Scherrer? LOL
We know all!!!
On the reverse side of things…some participants are VERY turbo about ‘who is allowed to buy’, as I reached out to buy from one particular participant and was emailed back immediately with ‘Ok but are you, at least, a GCC member? Have to follow the rules. Have a great day and thanks.’
No joke.
I had to tell that person that I’m technically in ALL groups!
Just FYI, on some of the offers, you need to click on the link to see the offer price (Scherrer for example), so people like me were not trying to purchase ahead of time, just trying to get the price to help budget for tomorrow! It would help if all of the offers included the price within the write-up.
One may have been me too. I started clicking around and thought I was in the Early purchase page. I will learn someday.
I “try” to keep 2 lists, with the second one being the plan of attack tomorrow. That does help but darn too easy sometimes to accidentally click submit forgetting where you started from. I try to write the names on “the list” asap.
Oh, if this was not allowed, I broke the rules several times checking prices.