To celebrate our 100,000th Twitter follower in February, we offered to send out free stickers to dev.to users across the globe:
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Huh! I'd swear I did. And most probably selected “unisex medium”, so could I have been an unlucky one who you didn't ask to fill the form again?
(now let's be clear, I might have never submitted the form in the first place; I do believe I did though, otherwise why would I expect something in the mail? 😕 Should I see a doctor? 🤔)
Same problem here... I didn't received the stickers and now it says that I never requested them 😔
Sorry about that -- please email yo@dev.to and we'll get it sorted out!
email yo@dev.to!
Thanks so much for these and this epic post! LOL, and thanks for linking me for "limbs" 😆
Keep being awesome guys!
Thank you so much for embarking on this journey in the first place. These stickers made me so happy when they arrived. It's great getting things in the mail that aren't bills lol. Im the proud owner of a laptop with several dev.to stickers on it :)
I love this! Going behind the scenes of building something (and focusing on the pitfalls in particular) is something that I'd love to see more of in our industry! I also laughed out loud at some of Walker's tweets 😆 Great piece, team! Looking forward to the next one.
My stickers just arrived yesterday in Brazil, and it was certainly worth the wait! I can't wait to stick them around my laptop. Many thanks for the effort!
I saw this a while back: blackbox.cool/ (from the Cards Against Humanity people, I am not in any way affiliated with them). It seems to be created exactly so that people like you don't have to have enough of these kinds of problems to warrant a blog post.
thanks for giving away the free stickers.
you guys are the best.
Oh man, I encountered a ton of these issues myself when trying to launch the user group support program at the company I work for. On top of that, I did not know about (and therefore did not account for) the complexities of shipping things like t-shirts overseas. In some countries it was matter of filing paperwork for customs and paying import duties (in some cases these exceeded the cost of the items I shipped). This also often meant that the person on the receiving end would receive a bill for the customs fees (most would let me know and we'd pay it but some just shipped it right back). In some other cases, there were strong limitations on the import of textiles (which our box of shirts qualified as).
The sad part is that I've more or less had to cease international shipments of shirts and other swag.
I really like how one can link this back to an actual programming project: there are always pitfalls and maybe an unexpected scope :p
This is not intended to be a negative comment! I really like my stickers and actually can now, since the giveaway stopped, make a few friends jealous because of my one of a kind stickers! Thanks for the giveaway, you guys rock (even if you guys didn't do the giveaway, i love this platform. Even though I don't post articles, I really enjoy reading them!)
Amazing story, thanks for sharing all that hard work with us. And well done on keeping up even with all of those obstacles you faced!
I had almost forgot about the stickers when one day a black envelope showed up in my mailbox. All the more delightful when unexpected. And after reading this I'm even more grateful for those stickers and looking forward to finding places to stick them!
This is awesome. I love that you guys share when stuff gets crazy and messed up, it's so helpful for all of us suffering from imposter syndrome.
And I love my stickers! Thanks so much – dev.to is the best!
This was great. We will do plenty more like this in the future.
I was a victim of the broken form. I realized something was up because I'd filled out the form as soon as it was posted, but you were retweeting people's sticker pics while I waited weeks for mine to arrive. But I did fill out the form again and received the wonderful stickers! Thank you for all your hard work on them!
I'm sorry you guys had to go through all that :(
But thank you so much for the stickers!
Feeling nostalgic already.
I'm from Guatemala :( never received them
Sorry :( :(
I re validated my address to a US P.O. Box
Great! We'll get those to you :)
So when will you let us pay you money for these stickers to support you?!
You did amazing and awesome job!!!
I love this post! It's amazing how far scrappy solutions can take you. Thanks for the stickers!
Guys, you're awesome! Hahahahahahahahhahahahahahha