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I regularly look for clever or striking gifts for Christmas. However, if anybody out there believes that buying personalized gifts is like shopping for commonplace gifts, do please think again. Think hard and think long. I recently purchased one of these, I won’t mention the site because I’m an embroidery digitizer. I make products that the personalized gift vendors sell and incredibly, these people are actually some of my customers! But these guys, no, they are jerks, , were quick to take my money and satisfaction was not in their business policies. Later, I discovered that many people had complained to the BBB about this store, but since I didn’t search for the online reputation of the company, I didn’t find out until it was too late. This lesson was brought to me by the school of hard knocks…my advice is take a little time to Google the company and ask your friends. It’s only your friends who have no vested interest in the decisions you make. Anyways, I digress… The item I purchased was custom made and not only do you need to buy these things way in advance, some of these people (and I use that temr loosely) they really make you jump thru hoops when there’s a mistake. So, be very cautious about… 1. Give them accurate spelling right from the start and 2. Order far in advance so that a mistake can be fixed. And Oh!..one more.. 3. Find out how responsive their customer service is BEFORE you order. Good luck!

One burned (but smarter for it) chick,

Becky M.

P.S. Here’s a page about interesting personalized gifts that I really liked…