This was passed to me and I had to take a deeper look because the premise is quite interesting: Leverage your shoppers’ buying experience to inform, benefit, and support other buyers (namely your friends). Here’s what one blog had to say:
With The Gifts Project, online retailers will be able to offer groups of people the ability to chip-in and buy a gift together for a mutual friend, colleague, or family member. A pretty simple idea with a promising potential considering social commerce is going gangbusters.
It is a neat concept and one that is definitely catching on.
I feel like something like this could really work in the context of the Church and Ministry as we are able to become more and more aware of each other’s needs – reminds me of the early Acts Church mindset.
Joanna says
Looks like a good idea. Amongst my friends we often join together to get someone one more expensive gift that they would really like rather than lots of little gifts. A site like that would save some of the frustration of getting the cash collected from every participant.
Roger Vest says
I’m thinking post needs supplied by local organizations/ministries that serve the poor, the widows, the orphans in your community. i.e. We got a call today from someone needing firewood. Through it out there and see how many folks might chip in on meeting that need.