Not to be captain obvious, but the reveal of our winners is LONG overdue. We have reasons for the long delay, but I never anticipated it taking this long.... I should have provided an update here in the interim.
The primary reason for such a long delay is that we totally botched the distribution of raffle tickets (for the record it was my fault). There were a bunch of testers that went out without a raffle ticket. As a result, we have been steadily getting emails from folks asking for a replacement ticket. Every time I thought I had waited long enough to go ahead and do the drawing, another person would email us about it. Its hard to define what what a "fair" cutoff is for something that was our mistake. Im know that the minute we post the winners, somebody is going to email us saying they never got a ticket.
I've been thinking a lot on how to best proceed, and the solution we came up with is a doozy. Before I share that solution, I wanted to share how we got there.
I thought about just holding the raffle and the people who follow up with us after the fact about not getting a ticket will just be automatic winners. However, I have a feeling that word on how that works would spread pretty quickly, and I don't want to create an incentive for folks to lie about not receiving one. When I pair this quandary with the fact that:
1. We have had memberships slots budgeted for a raffle for a long time now, but It's been so long since we've been able to actually hold a raffle. We had planned on holding an event and raffling spots off in Q1/Q2 of 2022, but we were never able to make that happen.
2. We also planned to hold a community flash sale around October/November in which we would also raffle off a few more memberships - but its not yet for certain if we will be able to do this.
3. We have made those who volunteered to wait far too long for the results.
Given that all of you have had to wait so patiently, and we have had these membership slots burning a hole in our pocket for long over a year, we are going to just go ahead and say that all testers who successfully submitted their surveys are the winners - welcome to the TFH!. Just shoot us an email at the same email address to claim your spot. I am VERY excited to have you all as part of the family, as what better people to invite than those who take time out of their busy lives to help further our cause? I know surveys are the last thing anyone wants to do for a company, and I feel very fortunate and appreciative of those who provided their 2 cents!
I wanted to just share for future reference that a membership raffle will never work out this way again.... this is a one-time thing. Although we didn't have a crazy amount of testers, this is going to be more memberships than the 20-40 we typically do each year. In other words, I hope nobody participates in a future round of research with the expectation of membership - our raffles will be an actual raffle in all future events. This is a once-in-a-lifetime thing, lol... congrats and thank you to those who participated!
Thank you family, and welcome to the Harvest!
