Wednesday 28 February 2007

Automated gifting

I had an idea for an automatic Valentines gift service. Register once with your credit card details and your significant other's birthday and anniversary and we'll send gifts of flowers, chocolates, teddy bears, perfumes and other assorted romantic stuff on the designated days. The gifts will be randomised so that, for instance, you're not just automatically sending a dozen roses three times a year. That makes it thoughtful, or at least makes it appear thoughtful. Email notifications will be sent out a week in advance for a chance to add items, personalise the gift or cancel if you've since moved on.

It wouldn't have to be limited to romantic gifts, either. What if you're a distant aunt or uncle with seven different nephews and nieces, all (naturally) with different birthdays? It seems like a useful thing to keep track of those dates and send gifts automatically.

Mokalus of Borg

PS - I wonder how successful an out-sourced gift service would be.
PPS - My guess is that I'd get a few customers at least.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

i say go for it, it sounds like a great business idea, and best yet, you don't need to have any stock yourself, just out-source to already running businesses on the web and bob's your uncle
bronsta