Viewing post #988690 by wildflowers

Horntoad said:The problem I see is setting a flat number per day is the members could be giving away more packs of seeds per day than they can hope to get in return. For example: 19 members each select five packs of seed from me the first day. That's 95 packs of seeds requested from me, but I can only pick 5. If the swap runs for two weeks,the most I would be able to pick is 70 packs total, less than I would have give away on the first day.
Here is a thought if it's not to difficult to program. Start everyone with 5 packs per day. If a member receives more than 5 request from there list, then their available dibs would increase by that amount up to a set maximum, maybe 10 or 15.
So if I have 5 packs or less requested from my list then I get 5 dibs. If I receive 8 request for my seeds then my dibs would increase to 8. It would increase every time someone picked from my list until the daily maximum was reached.

But, on the other hand, if I have 50 packs of seeds to offer and no one picks any of my seeds for five days in a row, I'm up to 25 packs of seeds that I'm getting... and then the next five days, all 50 packs get requested? Then I'm even. So, my seeds weren't the first pick but they were desirable. I guess it could be fair that I get more dibs since I offered more desireable seeds.

Edit to say I wasn't finished but somehow my message was sent - and now I don't remember what else I was going to say....