Beneath you will find a brilliant idea on how to avoid your gifts beeing rejected as unwanted (wrong brand, wrong colour, wrong size, have it already, don't like it, not my style, etc., etc.). If you want to grasp it fast or have limited time: Just read the green paragraphs!
Do this first: Find a real gift for her or him in one of the online shops above. Do not buy anything - just note the price (with shipping included)!
Next thing to do: Buy an email-able gift card from the same shop issued with the value of the real gift you have found. Then email the gift card to the recipient telling her/him that you have a real gift in mind (which the gift card is intended for)!
Then read this:
You want to be on better terms with nature when buying gifts, right? That means, you want to avoid your gifts being returned and exchanged or resold at Internet auctions, resulting in extra transport and CO2 emissions, right again?
But at the same time you are probably a bit reluctant to use the somewhat impersonal solution: Gift cards/certificates or money?
THE SOLUTION:
Now you can forget about your gift problems! Here is a simple, creative and quite efficient solution described beneath - a recipe you can use free of charge (To: You from: Me!). Let's start to buy gifts the right way!
(Well, you have already started by following the two first steps at the top of this page.)
The concept is:
GIVE A GIFT CARD WITH A REAL GIFT IN MINDSM
The thing is, most people prefer to both give and get real gifts. It is more personal, more exiting, more creative. Despite the fact that more often than not, the gifts we buy and receive are the "wrong" ones (wrong color, wrong brand, wrong style, have got it already, don't need it etc., etc.) - we still favor real gifts! Therefore a solid and working solution must include a real gift but at the same time the solution must avoid that the real gift is being returned/exchanged or resold!
GIVE A GIFT CARD WITH A REAL GIFT IN MINDSM
is such a solution. In fact it is the ultimate solution when buying gifts!
Here is the recipe:
1) First you go to a shop online in order to find a real gift the recipient might
appreciate. When you find it, you just scribble down the price (with shipping costs included) - do not buy the item, just note the price.
(Already done, right?)
2) Then you find the shop's gift card section (preferably choose an email-able gift card=more environment-friendly). Buy the gift card and issue it with the value of the real gift you have in mind. Send the card with your personal message saying you are sending this gift card which is intended for a real gift you have in mind - what it is will be revealed in a follow-up email.
(Also already done...?)
3) You then go back to the shop page where the real gift item is presented with a picture. Point at the picture and right-click. On the menu that appears click Copy. Then go to File up in the left corner on your screen, click and then go down to Send>link via email, click.
The email document appears - with the link to the shop page where the real gift is presented. Place the cursor in the message section of the document and go with pointer up to Edit, then click and go down to Paste - click. Now the copied picture appears in the email.
Now you can complete your email with the message: "This is the gift I have in mind.
Buy it with the gift card I've sent you. If you want to buy something else you want more, pls. feel free to do so! Click on the link and you will come to the right shopping site! Again: Happy Birthday to you!" Or something like that. Send the email to the recipient.
Advantages for you, the recipient and for the shops. But most importantly: Huge advantages for the environment!
Three easy steps which the whole gift purchasing society should adopt - in order
to get rid of the problems described above, don’t you think?
Think of this: According to a survey conducted for eBay in 2008, 83% of the consumers in the USA received unwanted gifts during the year. Similar surveys in other western countries show that 50-80% of the consumers get unwanted gifts. That represents huge volumes of "wrong" goods being shipped over long and short distances quite unnecessary - resulting in big volumes of CO2 emissions. Just because we want to make our partners, friends and relatives happy! Just because we want to show that we really care! It is quite insane, isn’t it?
BUYING A GIFT CARD WITH A REAL GIFT IN MINDSM
brings an end to this environmental problem. You can efficiently reduce the insane shipping of unwanted gifts and thus reduce the CO2 emissions by following the simple recipe above! Let’s start to buy gifts the right way! It's so easy to make a big difference!
Apart from the environmental argument comes the feel good factor and the fact that the concept is perfect for last-minute gifts.
Even if you order and send a plastic gift card instead of an email-able one (which is best for the planet) and then reveal in an email later on what kind of gift you have in mind - this is more environment-friendly than shipping a real gift that later on is being returned/exchanged or resold.
Do this first: Find a real gift for her or him in one of the online shops above. Do not buy anything - just note the price (with shipping included)!
Next thing to do: Buy an email-able gift card from the same shop issued with the value of the real gift you have found. Then email the gift card to the recipient telling her/him that you have a real gift in mind (which the gift card is intended for)!
Then read this:
You want to be on better terms with nature when buying gifts, right? That means, you want to avoid your gifts being returned and exchanged or resold at Internet auctions, resulting in extra transport and CO2 emissions, right again?
But at the same time you are probably a bit reluctant to use the somewhat impersonal solution: Gift cards/certificates or money?
THE SOLUTION:
Now you can forget about your gift problems! Here is a simple, creative and quite efficient solution described beneath - a recipe you can use free of charge (To: You from: Me!). Let's start to buy gifts the right way!
(Well, you have already started by following the two first steps at the top of this page.)
The concept is:
GIVE A GIFT CARD WITH A REAL GIFT IN MINDSM
The thing is, most people prefer to both give and get real gifts. It is more personal, more exiting, more creative. Despite the fact that more often than not, the gifts we buy and receive are the "wrong" ones (wrong color, wrong brand, wrong style, have got it already, don't need it etc., etc.) - we still favor real gifts! Therefore a solid and working solution must include a real gift but at the same time the solution must avoid that the real gift is being returned/exchanged or resold!
GIVE A GIFT CARD WITH A REAL GIFT IN MINDSM
is such a solution. In fact it is the ultimate solution when buying gifts!
Here is the recipe:
1) First you go to a shop online in order to find a real gift the recipient might
appreciate. When you find it, you just scribble down the price (with shipping costs included) - do not buy the item, just note the price.
(Already done, right?)
2) Then you find the shop's gift card section (preferably choose an email-able gift card=more environment-friendly). Buy the gift card and issue it with the value of the real gift you have in mind. Send the card with your personal message saying you are sending this gift card which is intended for a real gift you have in mind - what it is will be revealed in a follow-up email.
(Also already done...?)
3) You then go back to the shop page where the real gift item is presented with a picture. Point at the picture and right-click. On the menu that appears click Copy. Then go to File up in the left corner on your screen, click and then go down to Send>link via email, click.
The email document appears - with the link to the shop page where the real gift is presented. Place the cursor in the message section of the document and go with pointer up to Edit, then click and go down to Paste - click. Now the copied picture appears in the email.
Now you can complete your email with the message: "This is the gift I have in mind.
Buy it with the gift card I've sent you. If you want to buy something else you want more, pls. feel free to do so! Click on the link and you will come to the right shopping site! Again: Happy Birthday to you!" Or something like that. Send the email to the recipient.
Advantages for you, the recipient and for the shops. But most importantly: Huge advantages for the environment!
Three easy steps which the whole gift purchasing society should adopt - in order
to get rid of the problems described above, don’t you think?
Think of this: According to a survey conducted for eBay in 2008, 83% of the consumers in the USA received unwanted gifts during the year. Similar surveys in other western countries show that 50-80% of the consumers get unwanted gifts. That represents huge volumes of "wrong" goods being shipped over long and short distances quite unnecessary - resulting in big volumes of CO2 emissions. Just because we want to make our partners, friends and relatives happy! Just because we want to show that we really care! It is quite insane, isn’t it?
BUYING A GIFT CARD WITH A REAL GIFT IN MINDSM
brings an end to this environmental problem. You can efficiently reduce the insane shipping of unwanted gifts and thus reduce the CO2 emissions by following the simple recipe above! Let’s start to buy gifts the right way! It's so easy to make a big difference!
Apart from the environmental argument comes the feel good factor and the fact that the concept is perfect for last-minute gifts.
Even if you order and send a plastic gift card instead of an email-able one (which is best for the planet) and then reveal in an email later on what kind of gift you have in mind - this is more environment-friendly than shipping a real gift that later on is being returned/exchanged or resold.
Not only a brilliant gift idea. It is also quite an important idea.
STOP BUYING UNWANTED GIFTS! BUY A GIFT CARD WITH A REAL GIFT IN MIND. BEST FOR YOU AND THE ENVIRONMENT!
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