The gifting season has begun and markets all around the country are bustling with people who are trying to pick and choose the best gifts for their loved ones. But, apart from these options of time consuming shopping activities there is another smart shopping way to save ones precious time and energy.
Online shopping is the new way to get what one wants without having to move an inch from ones comfort zone & choose from a variety of various online stores that offer great discounts, quality assurances and a bunch of other offers. There are so many positives to this way of purchasing gifts but like all good things, this one has its flaws too. The boon of having a million choices becomes our bane; because it gets so confusing to decide what product fits best to ones needs, especially if the product is a gift you need to get someone.
Gifting has always been an art too difficult to master for most of us, “What should I gift?”, “Is a useless pretty thing ok, or does the gift need to be a utility?” etc are questions that bug our minds to no end. If this is not enough, then there arises another problem of finding a unique gift, a gift that speaks for itself.
There are large options available when it comes to finding gifts. One can always choose a clichéd gift like a wallet for dad or a perfume for mom. Or one could do things differently- choose from great out of the box gifts like funky utility stuff – memo holders that light up, cool fancy pen drives etc or choose to gift an experience to friends and family- paintball games, spa sessions, holiday packages etc. One can also go the extra mile to make a gift very very special by personalizing it with a picture or by engraving text or names – Caricature t-shirts, personalised journals, photo crystals, personalized chocolates and phones too!
Everyone has a different personality and so, one can never buy the same type of gift for different types of people. Deciding whether a gift suits our recipient’s personality or not is always something that confuses and muddles us up!
Also, a product is priced differently on almost every website so being sure that the gift one chooses will be priced optimally is another thing to ponder upon as there is no chance of a bargain! Although many websites give an option of accepting payment on delivery, some great gifting sites still ask us to pay online, so trusting to disclose one’s account details is also what many people abstain from. Again, even if we do pay online, what assurance does one have about the safe delivery of one’s gift as the shipping address is usually the gift recipient’s and the fear of having our loved ones receiving a broken or dirty gift is just too much!
Having said all this, it’s necessary to say that there are a large number of sites that offer reasonable prices, cash on delivery, and have brilliant delivery services thus eliminating almost all issues except for the ones about choosing the perfect gift for your loved ones, that, dear friends is still a problem you need to sort out yourself!
‘This is a guest post by Apurv Bansal, co-founder of wishpicker.com – a unique gift recommendation portal that helps you figure out what to gift your loved ones.’
