Quote Originally Posted by JUNGLEJIMJIGS View Post
Instead of limiting the tyers limit the amount of time for the sign up.My opinion is that two days is plenty of time for people who are interested in a swap to sign up. When my swap comes up I'll limit the time,not the # of tyers.If 20 sign up deadline for shipping is 20 days,25 sign up ship in 25 days.You have to average a jig per day to make it on time.That should be plenty of time.
Please take this with a grain of salt. Just my opinion, which isn't worth much.

I for one, would never sign up for a swap like this. Unless there were less than 15 people signed up and I signed up a few minutes before the deadline knowing that the number of tyers would not balloon to 20-30. I'm just not interested in tying 25+ jigs the same even if I have a day per jig to tie them. I've done it once and don't plan on doing it again. But that's just me, and like I said....just my opinion.

Also, I guess I feel partly responsible for this mess about swaps....seeing as how I was the first person to limit a swap to a small number. I didn't think it would be a big deal, especially since the swap before mine (#10) only had 19 people sign up and there was a multi day sign up period.

My Solutions:
#1 Rotate between bigger swaps and smaller swaps. Or have multiple smaller swaps. Start a small swap....then 2 weeks later start another small swap. That way every two weeks a new swap is starting. Limit participation to only one swap at a time.

#2 I like 2-3 weeks to send in jigs for a 15 person swap...if there isn't a major holiday during the time frame.

#3 "life happens" if plenty of time replace dropped tyer

#4 No idea how to solve