We have some simple rules:

**Seventh Annual r/RandomActsOfSwift Swiftmas Exchange Information**

Hello fellow Swifties! Welcome to our Taylor Swift themed gift exchange. Please read through the rules of the exchange below, fill out the survey for your Secret Santa, and join Elfster. If you do not complete all steps, you will not be matched!

⚠️ Elfster: ⚠️

We will be continuing to use Elfster this year. Please make sure you join the Elfster exchange and provide the matching email on the Swiftmas sign up form.

⚠️ Discord: ⚠️

Discord will be our main method of communication and sending messages out, thus very important to keep track of. We expect participants to attempt to be activein the discord. We need to be able to easily contact participants so **if we get ghosted, we won't allow you to participate**. Previous participants really enjoy the discord aspect of the exchange.

You will still need to post your Thank You at the end of the exchange on r/RandomActsOfSwift. When you fill out the sign up form you will be asked for your discord username. If you have not yet picked a new username and still have the `#numbers` please be sure to include those too when you submit the form.

⚠️ Reddit: ⚠️

You will still need to provide your reddit username when signing up. If your current account does not meet the activity requirements (more than 90 days old, and 10+ comments or posts on r/TaylorSwift r/SwiftieMerch over the last** 60 days BEFORE** the announcement post made on October 12, If you've recently changed accounts please also provide your old account name. A high level of activity here in our discord may get you around this requirement.

🗓️** Important Dates** 🗓️

Signups close: November 8

Matches sent by: November 11

Gifts sent and tracking loaded on Elfster: December 13

⚠️ Merch Store⚠️

Reminder that ordering merch from the official store is risky at the moment. At the moment, shipping times are quick, but can vary depending on items.

🎁 Gifts

The recommended gift value is between $22 - $50 USD + shipping; handmade items are permitted. Please understand the point of the exchange is largely based around gifting, you must be okay with receiving a "lesser value" gift than you give, or potentially not receiving a gift. We cannot guarantee we will have re-gifters available. Reminder that you will not be gifting the same person who is sending your gift.

📓 Matching

Your swiftmas match will be provided via Elfster, you will then receive an Email, Discord DM, or Reddit DM directing you where to access the form submission of your Swiftmas match. Please be on the look out for this between November 8 and November 11. If you don't receive matching information by November 11 please message us. We will attempt to match people based on their preferences to the best of our ability, others will be randomly matched. **Please let us know if you need to drop out of the exchange ASAP so we can reassign your matches.**

✅ Completing the Exchange: ✅

Senders:

• Please ship your gifts via a trackable service, so we are able to confirm you have shipped, as well as let your match know their gift is on the way.
• If your purchase is coming from amazon directly and has a TBA/TBC etc tracking number, you need to keep us up to date on the delivery date.
• After you have shipped upload the tracking information into Elfster, doing this will automatically let your match know your gift is coming. Please do not personally send the tracking to your giftee, as the mods need the tracking too. Just add it to elfster directly: https://help.elfster.com/knowledge/how-do-i-mark-a-gift-as-sent
• Do NOT mark your gift as shipped until you have tracking information
• Reminder this is a **secret santa** don't reveal yourself to your giftee until they have received, and opened your gift. Do not publicly ask them questions, use the anonymous contact on Elfster!

Receivers:

• After your gift arrives mark it as received in Elfster: https://help.elfster.com/knowledge/how-do-i-mark-a-gift-as-sent (It's the same place you entered the tracking info for your sent gift).
• Take a photo of the gift and make a post on https://www.reddit.com/r/RandomActsOfSwift/ showing off your gift! **Everyone **is expected to post their Thank You message on the subreddit. **NO EXCEPTIONS**
• Keep an eye out on for anonymous messages from your gifter!

**Note**: We know some people may like to wait until Christmas to open their gift, but due to the nature of the exchange we need you to **open your gift immediately** so we are able to close out the exchange in a timely fashion.

📧 **Contact the Exchange Managers** 📧

You can contact us via ModMail https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/RandomActsOfSwift or `/modmail message-mods [message]`

If exchange managers contact you please reply in a timely fashion as contact delays can prevent you from participating in the exchange. We will be using **Reddit ModMail**, **Discord**, and **Email**'s provided via Elfster for contacting participants regarding the exchange.

Please refrain from messaging a mod directly at first, as any of us can help you.

❓ **How To Join The Exchange**:❓

You will need to join the Swiftie's Discord where we will provide the link to the sign up form, clicking the "I Agree" button will provide the form link, at the end of the form will be the elfster link. Make sure you submit the form, you will be given the link to join elfster again after submitting as well.

You must be 18 or older to participate, and international people are welcome!

Exchange discord #swiftmas-rules

Use this post as a reminder that Swiftmas is coming soon... (i know it feels like we just finished swiftmas 2023!)

We're still working on dates, but a reminder of the main requirement

 Reddit: 🚨 You will need to provide your reddit username when signing up. If your current account does not meet the activity requirements (more than 90 days old, and 10+ comments on r/TaylorSwift or r/Swiftiemerch   over the last 60 days BEFORE the announcement post

Thank you again to my secret santa for thr CD, pin and lovely card!!

I'm sorry this is posted a couple of days after your parcel arrived - I wasn't at home when it arrived so my neighbour very kindly looked after it until I managed to catch him at home yesterday.

Thank you so much for the CD! I never thought I would own a target exclusive CD, that was so thoughtful 💜 and the pin is so beautiful I've put it on my jacket 🦋

It looks like it cost quite a lot of money to post to me, I'm sorry it was so expensive! Please know that I really appreciate it after my original santa disappeared, your gifts have really brightened my week, especially when you already sent two other things. Thank you doctor britta 🫶

My gift arrived. It’s a book stamp that says “from the library of [my name]. My Santa also made me two bracelets. Thank you.

Got this in the mail unexpectedly today and it’s so cute! I opened the first two days and there are little ornaments in there! I’m going to save to do next holiday season :) thank you so much to my secret Santa! Happy new year!

My Santa guessed my favorite song. I love this gift to the Moon and Saturn. Thank you so much To the Mods : I'm extremely sorry for not posting earlier

Thank you... And Happy New Year

Not pictured were some awesome friendship bracelets of my favorite sports teams. There’s me hitting a set of snatches in the shirt on the discord. Thanks a ton! This really rocked!

To my favorite mods: sorry for the late post!

Arrived the day after Christmas after weeks of logistical hell 😂 Thanks, Santa!

Wow!! Mew absolutely crushed my gift this year! I've had this album cross stitch pattern on my wish list for some time now, and never bought it. They not only bought this pattern for me but they gifted me the entire Taylor bundle from this seller! I can't wait to get started on this! Thank you so much!

Thank you secret swiftie!!

Thank you to the elves and your generosity Impulse this swiftmas!