2010 June, 8th

Liliana Dumitru-Steffens

Twelve more days to Father’s Day and if you leave shopping to the last minute, you might be missing some of the great discounts, or maybe, receive your order too late. I am talking about those of you who like to shop online. For last minute shoppers, the only way to stay safe, is to purchase an Amazon Gift Card, which is personable, and redeemable for most of the items on Amazon.com. Fortunately Amazon let’s you email such a gift and it’s entirely up to you how much cash worth you want to put on it – anything between $5 and $5000. The best part is that such a gift has no expiration date – so your father can choose to use it anytime he fancies.

Speaking of Amazon, this is the first site on our list. Aside the above named cards, the site also offers a dedicated Father’s Day page, where you can select from a large number of products, including the popular Kindle. Other suggestions (and intensely advertised on site by their manufacturers) are Nokia smart phones, Black&Decker tools, metal detectors, solar power kits, the complete National Geographic, with every issue since 1888, navigators and much more.

What can be more appropriate than a card to accompany your gift and send your message across, especially if you cannot see your father on his special day? 123greetings.com have a dedicated Father’s Day page as well – with 81 items to browse. Some are tacky, obviously, but there are a few nice selections. These however are only virtual cards.  To deliver your card the old fashion way, you’ll have to search somewhere else.

For the UK and Australia, the best choice would be Moonpig.com – a site that offers personalized greeting cards and customizable spoof magazine covers and invitations, where customers can upload their own photos for printing. There are about 100 cards to choose from, but there are also customizable t-shirts and mugs. All card orders received before 2pm Monday to Friday will be posted the same day, t-shirts and mugs take longer to be delivered, so place your order in time.

If your loved one likes good food and good wine, we recommend gourmetgiftbaskets.com. It’s true that you can order such gifts from Amazon as well, but for this special occasion, it would be better to trust a company whose specialty is to put together such surprises. No less than 70 gift basket ideas are on the site, some very affordable. Hurry up, some of these are already sold out.

If you would rather select the items that go into the gift basket yourself, go to designityourselfgiftbaskets.com, which offers such a choice. You can select your theme, container, and all of your own gourmet and specialty products. If you are not sure what to buy, you can also set your budget, select your theme, personalize with any addons you would like to include, and designityourselfgiftbaskets.com will build you a one-of-a-kind perfect gift basket especially for your recipient.

Feature image courtesy TheGift.com

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Liliana Dumitru-Steffens is public relations consultant for Pamil Visions PR. She writes for Everything PR since January 2009. Previously she worked for My-tronic GmbH and Unilever Romania. Email Liliana at lsteffens [at] pamil-visions [dot] net.

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