Hi, I just joined the Forums and received this message: Thanks for joining The Shave Den. We hope you enjoy your time here, and we look forward to conversing with you in the forums. If you'd like, consider making a post in our "welcome center" section and introducing yourself, we're pretty friendly folks around here. In that same section, you'll also find a thread at the top for our newbie giveaway. It's a free giveaway for all our new members. Welcome Center See you in the forums! I looked all over before finding out that the Newbie Giveaway is no more. I think it may be less confusing to us newbs if you changed the automated message. I'm not trying to be a jerk, just letting you know about what we see when we first join. Thanks, Chuck
The reason I'm posting it here is that I tried to PM Sparky, who seemed to send the message and received this message. kf5gtc, I seem to be away at the moment and thus unable to respond to your conversation. May I suggest that you contact one of our other moderators: Admin Sorry for the inconvenience, sparky5693
Hi, Chuck, welcome to the Den! The Newbie giveaway was largely sponsored by the now defunct Shave Den Store, with extra items donated by long time members. Regular giveaways or PIF's (pay it forwards) are still a thing here, but have grown rather less common. Usually someone buys an eBay lot that comes with a rare razor and several common ones, and the unneeded common razors are either resold or given away. The other thing that happens is someone starts off with a inexpensive mild razor and "outgrows" it, either by switching to straight razors, more aggressive razors, or more "premium" razors. They often offer up the unused starter razor(s) in a PIF. @sparky5693 is an IT guy that keeps the site up and running. He doesn't post on the forums often, and doesn't hang out on a daily basis. I'm actually not even sure if he's a wetshaver. He'll get back to you, but it might be a week or so. If you don't see him, it's because the site isn't broken.
What's up, Chuck? Glad to have you. You are welcome to join my PIF which will end sometime this evening. https://theshaveden.com/forums/threads/strictly-mans-arctic-shave-butter-free-free-free.64378/
Thanks for the greetings. I don't spend a whole lot of time socializing. I mainly search and read. I'm on a few wet shaving forums, and I'm a grandfather who hasn't had the luxury of retirement yet. I'll try to pop in every so often though. Chuck from Texas
