Been watching this thread and reading the comments over the last few days, this evening I went back to the first post in the thread and read through them all again, anyone who thinks the Secret Santa is a waste of time or won't be participating again please go back and look through the fantastic posts made of people showing their presents and the genoristy of the senders.
Now with regards to Nick, I've met and spent many hours drinking with Nick at the last three Farthest Froms and the bloke is a nice, decent bloke. So to read the comments about him being banned from the forum saddens me.
Obviously recording the podcast with Rich we talk regularly and have been aware of this situation over the last few months and was disappointed to hear that Nick wasn't answering Richards messages and had still not shown evidence of the three postage receipts for the parcels he claims to have sent. I think it's pretty obvious to everyone that these parcels were never sent as if you had receipts you would take a quick snap on your phone and send the picture just to prove you've done it and get rich off your back.
What I think has happened is that Nick told rich he posted the original parcel and he hadn't actually got round to sending it, I believe he had every intention of sending it but just never got round to it, the days go by and he never got round to sending it, rich questions the whereabouts he comes up with another story saying it must have got lost and he'll send out a second, and so on and so on. One little lie, which I'm sure nick had the best of intentions, turns into two, three, four lies and gets out of hand.
Sadly the member who was due to receive the gift from Nick has come out and named and shamed him, and he has every right to, he's left it until March and has given Nick every opportunity to rectify the situation.
Luckily three selfless forum members have sorted out an alternate gift for Paul and proved just what a great community this is.
Hopefully Nick will come on this thread and put this right, by either putting up evidence of the three postage receipts, which I'm pretty certain don't exist, or just coming on here, holding his hands up saying he made a bad judgement and made a mistake and apologise to everyone who has been caught up in this mess. Like I said at start of message Nick is a really nice lad and wouldn't want to see him hounded away from the community, but it really does need him to address the situation and have the decency to tell everyone the truth and if he did overlook sending it make some apologises and try and rescue this situation.
