Wish lists for kids

Maybe your kids had a hard time with school this year. If that’s the case, open a wish list for them and that will keep them busy until Christmas!
With Gifteer, you can easily create wish lists for your kids, right from your own Gifteer account. That’s what we call “associate account”, and does not require an email adress nor a password.
Once you have created this associate account, you can start adding wishes to it, and send the wish list to the whole family!

Your letter to Santa Claus

It’s time to write your letter to Santa Claus, by adding wishes to your Gifteer wish list. Here are a some advice:

• Add as many wishes as possible, so that your friends and family will have a lot to choose from, and you won’t feel like imposing this or that gift. And you will still be surprised!
• Share your wish list on your favorite social networks: Facebook, Twitter, ….
• Create wish lists for your kids
• Email your wish list by copying the URL of your wish list

Best site for daddys’ gifts

Ok, let’s face it: gifts are often a moms’ thing. We, dads, are usually fairly late when it comes to organizing gifts for our kids, ourselves, or our spouses. We’re always way behind on this…
Fortunately, our spouses can manage our wish lists in Gifteer, to let our families know what we want (say, our mom is getting anxious to know what she should get us for Christmas…).
So if you don’t use Gifteer, at least send your spouse They will enter your wish list and share them with the world!

Gifteer reminds you of your friends’ birthdays

Yesterday we announced a ton of new features. Here is more information.

As a universal wish list site, we had to remind you of upcoming friends’ birthdays. So we put together four types of emails:

• a “D-60″ email, that reminds you 2 months in advance (60 days, dughh!) that your birthday is coming, so you have ample time to add items to your wish list, so that your friends will know what to get you,
• a “D-30″ email, that reminds people who have added you in their friends list, of your upcoming birthday,
• a “D-1″ email, that reminds your friends they should call you the next day to wish you a happy birthday,
• A “D-day” friendly email from us here at Gifteer, to wish you a HAPPPPY BIRTHDAYYYY!!!!

Here is how it looks like on Gmail :

Swaps

While trading emails with Gifteer users, we came accross this great concept: swaps.
What are swaps exactly?
Swappers trade home-made gifts related to a given theme. Themes can be “cats”, “Hello Kitty” or “snow” for example.
Let’s look at what a “cat swap” would work: swappers exchange their preferences via email (preferred colour for example) and any things to avoid (allergies for example). Then swapper A will create a home-made gift about cats, following swapper’s B preferences. Swapper B will receive the gift a few weeks later by mail! Swapper B does the same thing with swapper C, etc… until they close the loop.

Who would dare to sell their Christmas presents?

A lot of people, it turns out!
Although this is still a delicate subject in most families, a lot of people are turning to gift selling to get rid off not-so-great gifts in order to generate some quick cash and buy the gifts they really wanted! Selling a gift is better than leaving it in the drawer for ever!
With Gifteer you avoid these extra steps and make sure you get the presents you really want. So next time someone brings up the subject of gift selling, tell them about Gifteer!

Clean up your wish lists

It’s time to clean up your wish lists and remove all these great gifts you got for Christmas, just to make sure you won’t get them again next year!
You should start adding new wishes right away to prepare for your birthday

A remember our Gifteer advice: put as many wishes as possible, so your friends will have plenty of choice and you will still be surprised when you open the box!

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Today you’re nothing if you are not on Facebook

So at Gifteer we’ve decided we had to be on Facebook! You can join us here : http://fr-fr.facebook.com/pages/gifteer/49702484111.

We are preparing a “Facebook application” that will let you post your Gifteer wish list on your Facebook account. That’s useful!

Gifts and surprises

We are often asked: how can I have a Gifteer account and still look surprised when I get my presents?
Our advice is simple: put as many wishes as possible, so that you will never know which gifts are waiting to be open in your stockings! If you have only one or two wishes, then yes, it’s going to be harder to look surprises

Associate accounts

If you have small children, it’s difficult for you to ask them to enter their wishes in Gifteer!
That’s why we invented associate accounts. These accounts, that you create yourself for your children, allow you to manage their wish lists directly from your own account.

How do I get started?
Go to your account settings, by clicking on your name at the top right-hand corner. Then you will see, on the right-hand side, where you can create one or more associate accounts.

Later (much later…), you will be able to transform these delegate accounts into “normal” accounts, allowing your children to manage their wishlists themselves.

We will soon expand the concept of delegate accounts for children to other delegates, such as parents (if don’t have internet access), or your spouse…if he refuses to create a wishlist ;-).

We will keep you posted!