Gift Wisdom - Art Of Giving

Our mission
Quite simply, our goal is to get you what you want and stop the wasteful gifting prevalent in the society. We think it is both Environmentally and Socially responsible way to gift. And to make it happen, we let your social network of friends and family come together online for you. You setup your registry at GiftWisdom with stuff you like from any website and your friends can contribute towards those gifts.

Our mission is to solve the following inefficiencies in the Gift Giving/Receiving and Online Shopping process

Gift Process

Have you thought about the environmental impact of our most-often wasteful gifting practices? Driving around looking for the ideal gift, boxing it up, wrapping it up, delivering it, bringing the boxes home and then tearing all of that apart just to find something that you, let's face it, may not always be very excited about! Not just a bad gift, but so much environmental mess to go with that. Let's pledge to go GREEN and you can do that with GiftWisdom.
You know the benefits of Wish Lists. Still why don't they work? Because they are one sided. We have changed that by letting your friends and family come together by pooling cash to make even your expensive wishes come true. Help us rid our society of the wasteful re-gifting practice.
On-behalf Wish Lists! Want to gift something as a group to a common friend or relative? GiftWisdom makes it easy to coordinate this amongst everyone. No more going cubicle to cubicle collecting money or reminding people to pay up. They all can do it at one place. GiftWisdom.com!.

Shopping

Holiday Shopping, Home remodelling, vacation planning and more! Let's face it. We all do shop online from work. So how do you plan your online shopping with your spouse or partner working elsewhere. GiftWisdom Shopping Lists! Both partners can add stuff they like to the shopping list. They can discuss and decide their preferences together .
How many times have we seen a good advertisement flash on our favourite News or Email website but never could save it for later use. Now you can with GiftWisdom. Just grab it with a single click and store it permanently in your list.

Other benefits ....

For a gift receiver, typical store Gift Registries and Gift Certificates do not help because user is locked in with single vendor and there is usually lack of choice
Best deals are all over the Internet and neighborhood shops. Receiver is motivated to search for best price for the gifts he or she wishes and then set the registry with products from those merchants.
Guests need not worry about having to go to stores and look for the ideal gift.
lDesirable products can be expensive and Guests may not be able to purchase them. Traditional 'Giving' methods do not make it possible to collaboratively contribute as a Pool.
Receivers often do not get what they really desire.
Today, you can shop at your neighborhood stores or any of the online merchants. How do you organize your shopping, especially for things like Arrival of a new baby, Home Improvements, Setting up new kitchen or library or routine shopping such as clothes, DVD/CD or even Back-To-School shopping.
Since there are variety of deals out there, it would be nice to record these deals in one central place and whenever you are ready, you can go shopping.
If only you could easily consolidate your shopping, you could save money on the shipping costs or even take advantage of the free shipping offers for large orders.

What we offer

lGiftWisdom Personal Shopping Portal

lReceiver or Shopper can setup their own universal Gift Registry or Web Shopping Lists with products from internet, local stores etc.
lReceiver or Shopper can search the Web/Other resources for the best deals for desired products and publish them in the registry/shopping list
lSpecial software tools allow you to setup products in your registry/shopping list from virtually anywhere in the world.
By announcing your Shopping List to friends and family, it can be easily turned into a Gift Registry.
Receiver can setup Secure registries/lists which are not visible to general public. Only invitees with secure-code can view this type of registry/lists.
Receiver can view cash contributions made to each of the gifts.
Receiver can request check (Gift Certificates in some cases) for contributions made to their registries by their guests.
Receiver can receive cash into their Paypal account. Contributions made via this way are totally free of any service charge.
Automatic coupon matching with your gifts allow you and your givers to save money. You setup your wish list, we will match your gifts with available coupons.

lGiftWisdom Cash Pools for Givers/Guests

lCash Pools allow Guests to collectively contribute money towards a particular purchase
lPooling makes expensive gift purchases possible
lGuests can setup private Cash Pools e.g. Co-Worker, Family or Anonymous contributions
Guests can simply contribute towards the registry in general, so receiver can apply that contribution to any gift.
You can make contributions using Master Card, Visa Card or your Paypal account (Preferred method )