Hi ya schnezze! If your message in your outbox then it hasn't been opened yet. If your message is in your sent box, your message has been read.
I know that Geno has been extremely busy but I will send him a pm and have him respond. With it being the weekend now it will probably be next week hun.
Dear schnezze,
I'm very sorry - for some reason I hadn't read it but it was down with a bunch of others - I'll make sure I check my whole inbox more in future.
Anyway- your VIP claim has now been registered as 1st Jan and you can now see this in the My Contest Wins / Contest Winners pages as pending payment.
I expect to have more payments done next week
Thanks
Geno/CC