McFeely's, FreeStuff Winner Feb 17, 2003

[Keith Outten]

Ian MacDonald!

Your the first Winner of our "FreeStuff" drawing, your name has been picked at random and your prize is McFeely's "Do It Yourself Dozen" valued at $59.95. Your prize contains over 1200 square drive screws, a magnetic bit holder and an assortmanet of hex bits. (part#1200-FSL-A, from the McFeely's catalog).

The management at McFeely's have been very kind to offer the very first prize in the SawMill Creek "FreeStuff" program. We drew Ian's name out of an electronic hat from all of the registered members here at SawMill Creek. McFeely's was the very first company to respond to our request to support this program.

Contact Information
McFeely's Square Drive Screws
1620 Wythe Rd.
P.O.Box 11169
Lynchburg, Va., 24506-1169
http://www.mcfeelys.com
or call their toll free number at 800-443-7937

Ian, send me a private message and include your postal address, I will have McFeely's ship your prize directly to your home.

A Personal Note:
I have purchased thousands and thousands of square drive screws from McFeely's. Their products and service are excellent, one of the most reliable company's I have ever dealt with.

The SawMill Creek "FreeStuff" program is designed to promote good will between woodworkers, manufacturers and direct sales outlets. We would like to thank all of the companies that we contacted for their time and consideration. More prizes will be announced soon.

[John M. Cioffi]

Hi Keith,

Please tell me how this works?What is this program about.?

Thank You,

John

[Lincoln Myers]

Here's hoping my name is drawn next

[Keith Outten]

John,

Here is the message I posted in the Support Forum a few days ago.
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Free Stuff

SawMill Creek has only one sponsor and we are not interested in obtaining advertisers. We do however plan to be contacting every major woodworking manufacturer, distributor and retail sales company we can to let them know that we exist and ask for donations of tools and equipment that we can give away to our members.

The idea is to draw a name out of an electronic hat so to speak. Aaron has a program that will scan the member list here and select a name randonly. As we find organizations who will participate we will post the prize and conduct the drawing. We will give the company who donates the prize fair exposure by posting a new thread containing all of the details of their donation, a link to their web site and hopefully a picture of the winner with their new toy.

I have not made any contacts as yet but I believe this could be one of the best promotional methods any company could wish for and I hope it will be successful. If this works out it will certainly be lots of fun and obvoiusly rewarding for the winners. No money will change hands so this is not a commercial venture, prizes will be shipped directly to the winner and it will simply promote good will between woodworkers and manufacturers. We will need lots of members to attract the big guns and large prizes but we will get there in time.

If any of you have friends in the business that you think would be interested in helping us kick this program off please contact them and ask them to get in touch with us, I can only make so many phone calls a day by myself, lots of hands will make the task easier.

Companies interested in our givaway program can send a letter signed by their representative and describe the donation in detail (make and model number or catalog number) to the following address;

Attn: SawMill Creek
Hampton Roads Online
1213-H George Washinton Memorial Highway
Yorktown Virginia, 23693

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In the future we will not put the winners name in the main title of the thread, so if you see the words "FreeStuff Winner" click to see if you won the prize. There may also be multiple winners, you never know

[Ken Salisbury]

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[Ron Smith ... Richmond, VA]

I wasn't aware of this program ... just another great feature from Kieth and Aaron's site. It keeps getting better and better.

[Keith Outten]

I promised everyone at the Pond that I would make every effort to make our board the best it can be, we can't replace Badger Pond so we will just have to work hard and try a few new things that we think will make "The Creek" a very special place.

We have lots of ideas, next up we will try to put something together to coordinate bulk buys of tools and equipment from the manufacturers. This won't be as frequent as the "FreeStuff" program but it will give everyone the opportunity to save some bucks. Maybe we"ll call it our "Saw Bucks" program As our membership grows so will our clout and bargaining power.

Thanks to all for the kind words.

[Dave Hammelef]

Wow what a program.

What a site.

Keith you and your crew just continue to amaze.

Way to go

[Ted Shrader]

Originally posted by Keith Outten - excerpted

..... The management at McFeely's have been very kind to offer the very first prize in the SawMill Creek "FreeStuff" program. ..... McFeely's was the very first company to respond to our request to support this program.

Contact Information
McFeely's Square Drive Screws
1620 Wythe Rd.
P.O.Box 11169
Lynchburg, Va., 24506-1169
http://www.mcfeelys.com
or call their toll free number at 800-443-7937

A Personal Note:
I have purchased thousands and thousands of square drive screws from McFeely's. Their products and service are excellent, one of the most reliable company's I have ever dealt with.

All -

Ditto Keith's assesment of McFeely's. I use their screws also. Absolutely top notch! Can't be beat.

If you haven't tried any yet, you should.

Congratulations Ian,
Ted
Usual disclaimer: No affiliation, just a very satisfied customer!

[Spence DePauw]

I'll second or third or whatever the comments on McFeeley's screws. They have replaced almost all others in my shop, and the service has been excellent and fast.

Spence

[Glenn Clabo]

Originally posted by Keith Outten
We have lots of ideas, next up we will try to put something together to coordinate bulk buys of tools and equipment from the manufacturers. This won't be as frequent as the "FreeStuff" program but it will give everyone the opportunity to save some bucks. Maybe we"ll call it our "Saw Bucks" program As our membership grows so will our clout and bargaining power.

Thanks to all for the kind words.

WOW! I like it...a bunch! That REALLY makes sense. Why not use our buying power?

Youse guys are doing something VERY special here.

[Phil Phelps]

..would be a colossal understatement. Little, personal things like this, go a long way. Congrats!!

[Howard Barlow]

Originally posted by Ken Salisbury
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Ken, spare the Sawmill! They are the ones giving stuff away. We gotta find a way to rig this thing so the others aren't registered.

[Tom Sweeney]

Keith,
<b>I can't believe you've already instituted this Free Stuff program.</b>

<b>Where do you find the time.</b><br>
For the record could you list everyone that is working so hard to make this place so fantastic.<br>
I know there is Keith, Jackie, Aaron & I remember a mention of Aaron's brother.

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<b>Oh & congratulations Ian - <br>
Oh & Keith don't worry about Ken </b>

[Howard Barlow]

Now the weather reports are lowering the temps Thursday and Friday. They're showing a front coming thru with heavy rain for Thu and Fri. Oh well.