SL Relay For Life
March 19th, 2007 at 01:20pm Ryan Darragh
Your intrepid Men’s Second Style writers Ryan Darragh and Catero Revolution have joined with a slew of SL fashion designers and friends, headed up by Shai Delacroix, to participate in this year’s SL Relay For Life event! Our goup name is “Shopaholics for a Cause,” and you can learn more about Relay For Life and track our fundraising progress on the SL Relay For Life website. While you’re at it, drop by and make a donation to the cause at the brand spankin’ new Men’s Second Style office (Sheol 248, 4, 552). (You can also look for Men’s Second Style in Search–be sure to check the “Include Mature content” box, haha–or check my profile’s Picks.) Stay tuned for updates on our progress and information on some exciting stuff we’ve got in the works!
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1. Grazia | March 19th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
Hmmmm… and when are we having cocktails for the opening of your HQ???
2. Sean Clancy | March 19th, 2007 at 3:53 pm
Cocktails? *ears perk up*
I’ll mix!
3. Smokie Signals | March 21st, 2007 at 3:38 pm
Personally, I am NEVER having anything to do with Relay for Life again and though the American Cancer Society does good work, it will be a long time before they ever get another cent of my money.
When buying a product that is being donated to Relay for Life, one has to make sure to type in the correct amount for the item. Anyone that has used a vender like this can see how easy it would be to type in a wrong amount. Now imagine if you will, that you made the mistake of adding an extra 0 to the price. You have now increased the price exponentially! Once one hits pay there isn’t any kind of “are you sure” or anything like that, you have now paid this new price. Every retailer in SL would see that a mistake was made and would be more than willing to fix it, but NOT the American Cancer Society!
Not only will then not even discuss it, they won’t even give one the opportunity to still give that much of a donation by going to other retailers that are offering items and at least getting something back for the donation.
Yes, I absolutely should have been more careful and should have noticed that I had added an extra 0 to the purchase price. But the lack of any discussion about the issue just sickens me. Mistakes happen. They need a way to correct them!
Second Life deserves better than this!
4. Fayandria Foley-McDunnough | March 21st, 2007 at 9:39 pm
Smoke Signals,
Hi! I’m Fay, one of two chairs for this years Relay For Life and I am so SHOCKED at the experience you had with one of our vendors. I understand your frustration and disgust. Someone should have responded. I think the confusion might have been a communication issue and I regret that error. Each vendor is set out and sponsored by a team of people raising money for the ACS signature event Relay For Life. That team puts the item in the vendor and is responsible for it but you a donor would have no way of knowing that and would naturally hold “Relay” responsible; it really wasn’t. In fact I know if you had been able to find the right team to talk to the issue would have been taken care of quickly and professionally for you. Relay for Life teams are made up of SL’s most generous and compassionate citizens. Not one of them would have slept until you were satisfied. I say that with confidence and pride. They let profits go, hours of sleep escape, and put their lives (SL & RL) on hold to raise funds for the American Cancer Society, this type of person wouldn’t take 900L from you and that is the type of people that make up Relay. Please contact me and I will contact you, I can’t change your experience, or your mind, but I can refund your money and ask if you would please give Relay another chance. We are here to fight cancer by raising money, not steal it.
Thank you,
Fayandria
Second Life Relay For Life 2007 co-chair
5. Smokie Signals | March 22nd, 2007 at 12:35 am
Thank you. I will contact you. The vendor was wonderful and when the person she contacted from Relay for Life said it was impossible to pay back the money, she took up a collection from some other venders and paid me back as much of the money as she could afford and her two friends. She also gave me a few free outfits.
It is sounding like this very generous vender just happened to contact the wrong volunteer at Relay for Life and I am more than willing give the collective “you” another chance.
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