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Since this is a FAQ and 10mL bottles are not going to come back any time soon (outside, perhaps, of eBay), I am locking this topic. Please do not bug the Lab about it -- it's been three years, they're not coming back.

Go here: http://www.bpal.org/swaplift/index.php Fill out the form even if you have reported this on LJ or to twistygirl. Do NOT PM twistygirl anymore. She's gotten so many PMs she cannot deal with them anymore. Fill out the form even if you have cancelled your swap or have gotten your package return via USPS. We will be adding to it this evening to allow people to update that they have gotten their items (either the sent, or gotten the promised ones) or cancelled.

By popular request, we're adding three seasonal LE categories: Samhain, Yule, and Lupercalia. We're slowly moving the topics into their new location; please do NOT report that they need to be moved or start a new topic in the appropriate area. We expect this transition to take approximately one week - there's a lot of movement, yo

Victory, Nogah, Eternity, Endurance, God’s Grace. rose! sandalwood! something i don't recognize! kind of reminds me of queen mab, but not as fabulous. (of course nothing could be as fabulous as the queen) i rather like it, though i don't know that i'd wear it much because i DO have the queen and netzach doesn't blend as well with my skin as queen mab does.

initial impression: lemon. not like pledge, but like a freshly cut lemon.

Recently, it has come to light that Paypal requires that you file claims within 45 days of purchase. Since we had a 6 week (42 day) time limit before we considered something to be swaplifting, that gave y'all three days to file problems with Paypal. It also gives people much more time to potentially swaplift. As a result, effected immediately we have decided to reduce the time that we consider something to be a swaplift from 6 weeks to 1 month. It makes it easier for everyone to determine if enough time has passed for it to be a swaplift -- I don't know about you, but I had to break out a calendar for 6 weeks; it's pretty easy to tell if it's been a month! It reduces the time people can arrange more swaps, and thus reduces the impact a mass swaplifter can have on the community. It increases the window between reporting swaplift and filing with Paypal (for those of you who purchased items instead of sending). All in all, it is a good thing. But that does not mean that this decision does not come with a negative, because it does. It decreases the time that you have if the post office or customs is being slow, something none of us have control over. For your own sake, keep receipts of things you send if you use buy shipping online or directly at the post office, and keep the stamped copy of the customs forms for international shipping. It's my experience that people who haven't received their items within a month and do later tend to be victims of the supreme slacker, not of the post office, so this change should not impact most people - and it's unlikely to be effecting all of your transactions. We feel that overall, more good will come from making swaplifting reporting easier and allowing those who purchased (instead of swapped) more time to file charge disputes or non-receipt of item with Paypal. Please review the FAQ: What to do if I've been swaplifted to review how to handle swaplifts! But, the summary is: PM a swap moderator with the details of the swap (or by forwarding a PM with the details in it) one month after the swap was finalized, leave negative feedback, and if it was a sale whose items have not been received, approach the appropriate entity to initiate procedures to get your money back.

Charming, mischevious, and ultimately chaotic! An armoatic paen to discord. Lotus and gardenia spiked with mint. initial thoughts: mint and something that i don't know what it is. maybe the lotus? mmmm not sure how this'll go...

Used liberally in love magick to ensure tranquility, calm quarrels, and rekindle faltering flames of attraction, sensuality and romance. Used also to put an end to infidelity, and in this aspect, it can be used not only on your mate, but on your self to keep your own eyes from wandering and hands from straying. the smell of anise/licorice bark is strong with this one.. i wanna go eat a black twizzler now. (first the skittles astro blend, now this! someone must be hungry...)

A wispy, ethereal perfume with a touch of menace. Lilac, tuberose, Lily of the Valley, palmarosa, and white sandalwood. wet, it was very sweet and floral dried, it's more a light floral... it's nice, but not my taste. my mom loves it though.

If you're on facebook and weren't aware, we do have a page there! (There's also an application that lets you show everyone what scent you're wearing today!) It's a good thing to become a fan of (as is our twitter feed), because if the server goes all the way down unexpectedly, as it did today, you can be informed! If we think of it, we may announce it on LJ's sinandsalvation, but since I don't really use LJ anymore, that's more likely to have someone else who sees our other updates say what's up when someone asks why the forum's down

Starting today, we are handling excessive bumping of topics in the Swaps forums slightly differently. These changes are not very different from our current policy, except that we will be adding some consequences for those that continue to bump their swaps too often. First time: After the first time you have bumped your swaps topic more than once in a 24-hour period, a reminder will be issued. Second time: After the second time you have bumped your swaps topic more than once in a 24-hour period, a second reminder will be issued. Third time: After the third time you have bumped your swaps topic more than once in a 24-hour period, a warning will be issued. Fourth time: After the fourth time you have bumped your swaps topic more than once in a 24-hour period, a second warning will be issued. In addition, you will be banned from the swaps sections for a one month period of time. Fifth time: After the fifth time you have bumped your swaps topic more than once in a 24-hour period, a third warning will be issued. In addition, you will be banned from the swaps sections for a six-month period of time. Six time: After the sixth time you have bumped your swaps topic more than once in a 24-hour period, you will be permanently banned from swapping.

After a loooooooooooooong break following Carnaval Diabiolique, a new season of the forum games is about to begin! You can sign up by posting in this topic through the 12th of January. This season takes place in Prohibition era Chicago...

Due to malware/spyware problems with littleticker (such as the one shown below), all littleticker.com tickers have been removed from signatures, and will continue to be removed without warning, as long as we get reports that the site is causing malware/spyware/etc software from going crazy. There are lots of other free ticker hosts available, please use one of those instead.

Bumping because I just banned someone from swaps for having a third price cap violation with "make me an offer" in their swap/sale post and responding to a Wanted request with something that was nearly double the price cap.

Hi guys! I just wanted to remind y'all, because it's come up a few times lately, that "put in an offer" is not an acceptable price. You must follow our price guidelines if you want to sell your stash here.

For those of you who enjoyed playing our version of werewolf / mafia / paranoia, there are now a few small rounds (10 players) being played in Between Games. Check out that forum as new games will be popping up without further announcement as people (both friends of mine that I'm bringing in, myself, you guys) start running smaller games

this is a really quick question for anyone who's gotten the shipping confirmation emails from whomever it is (usps? beth? i'm not sure) 1) what email address does it come from? 2) what is the subject line? i get about 120 spam messages/day on my primary email, so i need to filter and retrain my spam bot.

Right now our host is experiencing some networking issues, and the forum may pop off and on as they diagnose and repair the problems.

Very patient, I'm at a workshop and basically, my days go from 7:10am to 12:00am, with small breaks for food and about two hours in there for going to/from MIT.

Today's the last day to enroll in either Werewolf game!

After the smashing success of the first Werewolf game, Bpalvilleshireford Parish, we have opened up two new simultaneous games for the summer! Both games have sign ups through the 23rd of May, and players will be randomly selected out of the pool of players that sign up. The first game, Dead Man's Gulch, is set in the American wild west, near the turn of the century. The other game, The Agency, is a modern day spy game, of GUD versus EVOL.

Hey guys, we all love that you're reporting topics, but please PLEASE wait at least 24 hours if you've reported a topic for moderatiing action (merging, closing, etc) before reporting it a second time. If you've reported something on the weekend, please wait until Monday evening (unless it's a 3-day weekend) before reporting it again. While we do have over a dozen mods, many of them are students or work full-time, and even with two mods in most areas, reports cannot be answered immediately sometimes. Happy Columus Day to the 'Mericans, and happy Thanksgiving to the Canadians.

If it was for shelldoo's swaps or sales, this is in the wrong place as swaps and sales should be taken care of in the Swaps forums. If this was for shelldoo's nail business, this is in the wrong place, as she cannot support her nail business on the forum. The only way this is remotely appropriate in BPAL FAQs is if it's for the BPAL stuff she retails -- and even then, and like the Lab, shelldoo doesn't do CS for BPAL stuff on the forum.

Earlier today, we experienced a database problem and the only way we were able to fix it was to roll back the database & backend two days and add in the last day's worth of posts/topics through approximately 5:20 AM. The forum went down at approximately 10:50AM, so effectively, only 5 1/2 hours of posts/topics were lost. Unfortunately, PMs were not recovered because midway through the database recovery, the forum spontaneously turned itself on, and people started sending PMs and I don't have the time to go and renumber everything (and even then, ther'es no guarantee that it'd be done correctly). Approximately two days of PMs were lost.

That search engine is very outdated. We are aware of that. I'm in the process of work on a huge backend update to the search engine and moving the search here to bpal.org. Even though it's not identical to the one that's currently in use, I'm setting up a redirection this weekend as I'm leaving my old host (site5) for inadequate technical support and utter failure to fix a major problem (my inability to FTP from home).