Gift for excelforum.com dashboard competition 2014

My Dear All Friends,

I am participant of Excel forum dashboard competition 2014 and i had submitted two dashboard but still i have not received any gift. I did lot of follow up with forum admin and now it looks like they made us foolish . I hope the winner of competition could have received i phone 6.

DO YOU THINK EXCEL FORUM MADE US FOOLISH?

Below is my follow up email which i did with them.
Ohhh My god....

I didn’t received any gift from Excel forum dashboard competition....

They made foolish to me and worldwide forum users.... Its great platform to make foolish.

Regards,
Suhas Pangam

-----Original Message-----
From: admin@excelforum.com [mailto:admin@excelforum.com]
Sent: February 25, 2015 11:03 AM
To: Suhas Pangam
Subject: Re: Excel Help Forum Contact Us Form - Site Admin

Hi Suhas,

Thanks to contact us!!!

Dont be so panic, we are in process to send the gift all of our participants. It is delay just because we need to send the gifts in different countries.

Please give us more time.

Thanks
Site Admin

Quoting Suhas Pangam <pangam_s@yahoo.com>:

> Dear Excel Forum Admin,
> NASA and Indian ISTRO Sent space craft on mars and they come back with
> details from the time you started 'Dashboard competition'.
> Last three months you are saying you are in the process of sending the
> gifts, if you don't want to give any gift then tell you made foolish
> to forum users and you cant give any gift to anybody.
> I hope you are getting lot of emails regarding this, please confirm
> that you are not going to give any gift so that i will put this on
> social media and tag the people who working and giving important time
> to answer the questions on EXCEL FORUM.
> Regards,
> Suhas Pangam
>
> On Friday, 6 February 2015 4:57 PM, "admin@excelforum.com"
> <admin@excelforum.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Suhas,
>
> We are in process to send the gifts to our all valuable participator.
> Our all participator will get the gift as soon as possible.
>
> Also we appreciate that your patience and respect it.
>
> Thanks
> Site Admin
>
>
> Quoting Suhas Pangam <pangam_s@yahoo.com>:
>
>> Any update on this!
>>
>> Regards,
>> Suhas
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Suhas Pangam [mailto:pangam_s@yahoo.com]
>> Sent: January 27, 2015 6:58 PM
>> To: 'Admin'
>> Cc: 'Suhas Pangam'
>> Subject: RE: Excel Help Forum Contact Us Form - Site Admin
>>
>> I hope, you have dispatched Dashboard competition participation gift.
>> We are ugly to see that!
>>
>> Regards,
>> Suhas
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Admin [mailto:admin@excelforum.com]
>> Sent: January 05, 2015 3:21 PM
>> To: pangam_s@yahoo.com @ Excel Help Forum
>> Subject: Re: Excel Help Forum Contact Us Form - Site Admin
>>
>> We are in process of sending gifts. I am checking on this and will
>> revert soon
>>
>> Thx,
>> Admin
>>
>> On Sun, January 4, 2015 11:29 pm, pangam_s@yahoo.com @ Excel Help
>> Forum
>> wrote:
>>>
>>
>>> The following message was sent to you via the Excel Help Forum
>>> Contact Us form by pangam_s@yahoo.com ( mailto:pangam_s@yahoo.com ).
>>>
>>> --------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Admin,
>>>
>>>
>>> I have not received Excel Forum Dashboard competition participation gift.
>>> Can you please check and revert.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Suhas

There are more emails below this which i am not able to provide.

Now i don't want any gift because its confirmed that they made us foolish. Just to increase traffic on web site or people interaction on site. Even if they had delivered single chocolate, people could be happy because they got something from Excel forum. But unfortunately its not happened.

Originally Posted by daddylonglegs

What gift were you expecting Suhas?

I expect you'll get it just after all the reliability issues get fixed......

This was learning period for me, next time onwards i will not participate in such competitions. But i will make sure nobody will participate for wrong commitment and get foolish. When competition started at that time existing(Senior) masters could tell the people about the same.

Originally Posted by TMS

Love it You have my sympathy, but this is exactly why I won't take part in any of the EF sponsored activities and competitions. Call me cynical, but I am not very trusting of subjective awarding of prizes.

Regards, TMS

Yes, they had promised participation gift for all and first winner will get i phone 6.

Originally Posted by FDibbins

Was there a gift promised to ALL partcipants, or just the top 3? (I dont remember)

Yes i am with you, i am also not going to leave this FORUM just for gift and for any other reason.

Just i have highlighted the issued which i was trying to resolve last 4-5 month on email but that is not happened hence i put thread for this to check if others also have the same problem.

Regards,
Suhas

Originally Posted by adhawan06

@Suhas - Completely agree with you on this. If they had assured something, they should give it till now because almost 4-5 months has been completed. (Didn't know much about that contest but I saw some old threads and the winner of the I Phone 6)

But we should also not forget that the Excel Forum has provided us this platform to connect with people across the world with excellent knowledge. On a daily basis, people around the world come here and expect solution for their problems or to resolve other's problem.

You know, I was the one who joined Excel Forum around 3 years back i guess, and hardly visited here because whenever I got into such problem, i always tried to get the solution at my end only and never looked it any plateform. But since last month i have started spending time on this forum and observed that this is one of the best platform for people like us who keen for learning new things and ready to explore their knowledge with others.

Thanks to Excel Forum for providing such a nice platform.

I hope all the problem between you and Excel Forum will be resolved soon. And for sure no one would like to leave such a good platform for small gift and vice-versa Excel Forum would not like Members to leave them just for a small issue.

Thanks,
Anil Dhawan

Friends... just before some time i got final message from Excel Forum management....

Hi Suhas,

Thanks for the response and confirmation on your gift preference.

We really appreciate our members to spent their valuable time with us. We are always there for their help too.

As confirmed, We will be sending you "Amazon Voucher" ASAP. Also, we would request you to help us to close the on going thread starting by you, saying that the EF management is in touch with you on your issue and they are looking into this matter and they have assured you that you will be getting the gift soon without any delay.

Thanks,
Site Admin

Originally Posted by adhawan06

Hehehe...I was expecting this from you TMS....I knew if not anybody else, you will through this question on me....:P

No...I don't work for them....But I just said what i experienced in my personal life and professional. At work, also it's very easy for people to crip someone and difficult to appreciate. Hope you get my point.

I look at things with positive mind. Even If i get into trouble or face any such situation where I have to fight, but I will not be interested into going negative in any sense.

Btw thanks for adding your feedback and reputation.

Hi Anil,

I agreed with you.

@ TMS: Yes, we all work for Excelforum (correct me if I am wrong as this is public forumm) as excel is our passion and we cme here to learn somethng new every day & thanks to you all who guide nd show us the right and short way to get the solution. we contribute 1 or 2 hours daily here so feel happy to being a part of this family.

Regards,
AM