Prizes and Events...related

Ok, so I’ve been working on the details for the prize shipments. Starting next Friday, I will give a general overview of orders sent, outstanding orders remaining, etc. As far as people asking about things in the forums, I appreciate all of you guys and gals who have been helping us answer them. It’s a huge help to us knowing that many of you support us. Please point them to the blog as well. Thanks.

I want to talk about the “Events” that have been popping up in the JACT world. First off, we hope you enjoyed the first one. We appreciate all the participation and feedback during the first Event, the WoW-a-thon. There is a new one we’re about to start this Friday that is along the same lines as the first one. We are happy that DC Home has partnered with JACT to bring you this event.

This leads me to some misconceptions I want to clear and naturally prizing is the topic. Some have suggested that we stop with the “Events” and focus on shipping prizes. I’m here to tell you that without these “Events” prizes will have a hard time being shipped soon. It’s not a trade off…I mean, it’s not like we are sitting on a mountain of prizes and we just don’t ship them because we are too busy putting on the Events. It’s because of these Events that JACT will ship more and more prizes sooner.

In the latter part of last year, when normal sponsorships stopped rolling in, JACT was stuck with a dilemma which has lead to our current hiatus in shipping. Last year, sponsorship and prize costs rolled in at a nice healthy pace. Then, sponsorships seemed to dry up almost immediately. Thinking that it was just a matter of making new relationships, we kept operating like we always had. Soon we realized that we were in a different landscape and changes had to be made. It was going to take more time to regain sponsorships. What seemed like an instant was actually 3-4 months. We fell behind and this is the quandary we were left with. At the time, it seemed like we could just work a bit harder and make the right relationships. Unfortunately, things were a bit more serious than we anticipated.

With that being said, we are getting back on our feet. Events are great for us to get what we want and for you guys to get what you want. So if you like the Events, please support them. If you have any suggestions regarding them, please let us know. We just have to be more creative and persevere. JACT will get back on its feet…hopefully in time to please the masses once again!