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Sobe Silvertree
12-17-2004, 07:43 AM
Please Read:

Status of the Grove; this concerns you and the community

As you all know we have been making many changes to our Forums and I hope you all agree that they are positive changes.

This Holiday Season I am giving away around $5000.00+ in prizes to our community members that voluntarily donate to our Forums. I need to ensure that ALL Donators are properly Listed. I sent out emails to those that are currently anonymous to their paypal account emails. Some have responded but some have not; those remain anonymous will not be entered for a prize. If you see that your donation is currently anonymous - send me an email (admin@thedruidsgrove.org)from the same email of your paypal account or at least the reference number; real name something that I can verify with the copy of the receipt that I have. Ref. Link: Give-a-way (http://www.thedruidsgrove.org/forums/showthread.php?t=10401)

PLEASE VERIFY HERE (http://thedruidsgrove.org/elements/donate/donate.htm#Current%20Donation%20List:)

You have till the 20th of December at 00:01:00 Hours (thats 12:01 AM EST)

All results are final!

If you considering making a donation and your paypal is on a different email then your TDG account put your username in the notes.

The above link has the Current List of Donators that will be eligible for prizes.

If your a previous supporter of the Grove; consider upgrading your donation for our donation drive of at least $10.00 (please note in paypal note or message to me that your supporter) I will combined the donations into one and if you meet the $25.00 criteria for the Big Prize you will be automatically entered for it.

In other words;



If you have donated $10.00 previously, consider $15.00 Donation to meet the $25.00.
If you have donated $25.00 previously, then please consider a $10.00 donation.
And so on.

Remember this is a Donation Drive and we are giving away a lot of items that either
A) has been given to us or
B) something that I personally went out and bought.

The Big Prize is valued at over 2000.00 USD and that is one of my donation + the keyboards, the mice, the ram, some of the video cards (Nvidia has 2 on the way; might be better then the ones I bought), the copy of WoW Collectors Edition (those are not sold anymore; that I know of), and several other items, which is around 1600.00 bucks my cost . Rest of it was donated by various sources and we appreciate that on the Grove. Those sources will get a special tag on our site that will be assessable to the general public; they will be considers sponsors to our community.

Plus all shipping cost: What you live in the UK?? $350.00 for shipping .. Does UPS still have Canoes.. that might be cheaper!

We run in the Red on the Grove but this is a Hobby and I do expect to pay for my hobby but I do give back to those that help support our forums by extra tools, features, and no Google Ads! - plus random give-a-ways that we are eligible for. As for this donation drive its more or less an awareness drive to our community who comes here every day. Please consider donating, even if you don't meet the criteria the donations are welcome and there will be other events as the year goes on.

So please consider checking the couch for pennies, nickles and dimes and put it together and donate to our forums (http://thedruidsgrove.org/elements/donate/donate.htm); who knows you maybe one of the lucky winners.. the odds are quite good right now with 50 prizes!

This coming year we are going to continue on the same path as we did this year with a bit more. So please invite your friends and consider wearing this tag in your signature on other boards that you visit; even the Main EQ, EQII and WoW Sites : http://www.thedruidsgrove.org/elements/images/tdg-link.gif (http://www.thedruidsgrove.org/)

Image Link: http://www.thedruidsgrove.org/elements/images/tdg-link.gif

Links to the Grove:
http://www.thedruidsgrove.com (http://www.thedruidsgrove.com/)
http://www.thedruidsgrove.org (http://www.thedruidsgrove.org/)
http://www.thedruidsgrove.net (http://www.thedruidsgrove.net/)
http://www.eq2druids.org (http://www.eq2druids.org/)
http://www.eq2druids.net (http://www.eq2druids.net/)
http://www.eq2druids.com (http://www.eq2druids.com/) (soon to come)
http://wowdruids.com (http://wowdruids.com/)
http://wowdruids.org (http://wowdruids.org/)
http://wowdruids.net (http://wowdruids.net/)
http://warcraftdruids.com (http://warcraftdruids.com/)
http://warcraftdruids.org (http://warcraftdruids.org/)
http://warcraftdruids.net (http://warcraftdruids.net/)

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The Druids Grove

Established April 6, 1999
Supporting Everquest, Everquest II and World of Warcraft Druids!



Our community is the oldest class site in existence.
We have always depended on our community to keep our boards running.
Our entire staff is volunteers and have been with us for a long time.
We are always looking for ways to support our Community.
Our news section is up to date with current Druid Everquest II News.
We have always tried to serve the community to the best of our abilities.
Each month/year we as the community have bills


VB License Support/Upgrade Contract.
Addresses to get to the site.
Server Monthly Bill (www.theplanet.com (http://www.theplanet.com/)) we pay for the entire server.
Server Specs:
Processors: (4x) Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz
Memory: 3089956k/3145600k available (1687k kernel code, 51036k reserved, 1290k data, 228k init, 2228096k highmem)
Hardrive: 5x73GB SCSI Raid 5
Tape Backup
Off-site Backup
Linux Box
Plus+

What do you get out of this? Again; No Google Ads, or Supersale Banners.. like many site have.

We have taken on several different roles including Webhosting Services (http://thedruidsgrove.org/forums/showthread.php/?p=115586#post115586) which have greatly lessened our need for donations, but they are still necessary until they push us into the black. Maintaining these services is our goal and keeping the faith we currently have with our community has not wavered.

Please consider Donating (http://thedruidsgrove.org/elements/donate/donate.htm) to our Server or sign up for Webhosting (http://thedruidsgrove.org/forums/showthread.php/?p=115586#post115586) or our new VOIP Phone Services (http://www.ttivoip.com/).

Donating gives you some extra privileges and Webhosting of course gives you valuable webspace for your needs and also donates those proceeds towards the Grove.



Happy Holidays!