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You need a way to see what the other friends are buying. Let's say I set up a list of 10 items that I send to my 5 best friends for my birthday. They would like to know if one of them has pledged to buy me a certain gift, so that I don't get something twice. Of course, it should be made so that I can't see what my friends are planning behind my back.

The only problem with this is it would be easy for me to send an invite to another fake friend and log in with that e-mail to see what my real friends are doing.

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I would imagine that you / the user is not expecting to be surprised at any point if you use a service like this. I would also imagine that the op would fadeout or disable the ability for anyone else to purchase the same gift. However I am not sold on the idea of all the money raised goes to the User on the event.

For example Christmas you could of paid 50% of the cost to 5 items for friends and families hoping someone else would pay the rest, what if they do not? Come Christmas day your money is just passed to these peoples paypal accounts and you have nothing to give them on the day.

A question would delivery be optional to the User or me as the buyer? So I can give that gift to someone and not just deliver it by post?

I do like the idea and if executed correctly a very useful tool for around Christmas time. But it can be hard to predict the response to a service like this.

DuqE the whole surprise factor is a great point and one we are uncertain on how to incorperate at this point.

In the case where a person gets only a percentage of the money for different gifts on their wish list and not 100% for any one item may seem like a problem but I want you to look at it differently. Think about this site first and foremost as an alternative to a gift card. Its basically the same principle but without limitation and the user gets to see that your money was given for the purpose of trying to help them get a specific gift(s).

Khao this is a good point but no one can see what each other buys or makes a contribution to. But, on the day of the event when you receive all the money that your friends have sent you, you also receive an e-card with all the well wishes from friends along with what item they contributed to.

Once enough money has been raised to pay for 100% of an item is it closed off and money will have to be contributed to another item.

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