Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler Rambling Thoughts about Gift Certificates

we also have restaurants around us that sell gift certificates in the months of october and november with a discount. ie a $50.00 certificate is $45.00, a $100.00 is $90.00. so if you go in increments of $50.00, you too could offer $5.00 off each $50.00 step. their catch is that they cannot be used 'til after Jan 1st, with a two year exp date, which is not legal here in mass.

Oooh! I can't wait for returned certificates to start showing up in the F.O.! $500 certificate for 10% off! Woo hoo!

In addition to the set amounts I think that you should also let people name specific amounts as well. In some cases people might want to even pay for a complete system.

Do you think people would mind calling in to name specific amounts? I can't figure out how to automate that.

If the exact amount is to pay for M80s or M22s, or whatever...the gift certificate could just say "good for one pair of Axiom M80ti floorstanding speakers" or the like. Man, I would probably have a near sexual experience if I opened an envelope with THAT in it!

I think that would be fine. I also like the 25/50/100/500 model, as I know that all I'm likely to get is 25 or 50. ;-) Definitely go with Spiffnme's idea about the receipt, etc.

Wedding registry sounds good, but good luck convincing most of the wives to be. I would have settled for registering at Best Buy (not that they do it as far as I know, but they should) but that didn't go over too well. Although, that may have been partially because they don't do it.

Although, I guess with gift certs I can work my way up to M60's as a gift from her

Call-in custom amounts would probably be a good idea. I know I wouldn't mind if I was going to spend more than $500 on a gift certificate.

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I have long wanted to have a wedding registry, too - wouldn't that be fun? Instead of getting dishes you'll never use, you get an entertainment system! Okay - maybe I'm getting ahead of myself.

Any thoughts?

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Now lets take a vote how many of us guys out there would want a wife that says something like that.

*raising hand!*

I don't think people would mind calling in at all. In fact there are still a lot of people who prefer to deal voice to voice rather than via the 'net.