I just wanted to reach out and thank you for the great experience we had with Deposit a Gift. We had created a honeymoon registry for our trip to New Zealand for our wedding, and everyone loved it. It's such a unique but easy way of having a registry. It was fun to see how people totally got into it, too: all the "cool" stuff was taken first, and then some friends commented that "unfortunately only" car rental days or airfare miles were left :-) We also had guests from overseas contribute, and no one seemed to encounter any problems whatsoever. Cash out was unproblematic. Service impeccable - awesome tool!
This site is simply amazing! Ten days before the end of the year party honoring a staff member who had worked in our department for twenty years, fundraising for a gift the traditional way was going very slowly. I chanced upon this site on a google search, after deciding against other, more popular cash registries because of high and hidden fees and complicated means of getting the money. In a week and a half with our Deposit a Gift registry, we were able to raise an impressive sum of money for our colleague (all while keeping it a surprise). The site design kept things simple for me as manager of the registry. Dana Ostomel was friendly, helpful and replied to my questions promptly over phone and email, and even sent me a nice postcard after we spoke! Cashing out was a breeze, especially since there were no additional fees, and our colleague was super surprised when she received the deposit directly into her account.
I'm telling everyone I know about this site!
Deposit a Gift was great for us. We've lived together for years so our home is pretty well set up and we didn't have much room for tradition wedding-type stuff in our tiny house anyway. With Deposit a Gift, we were able to register for things that we like to do and that reflect our interests and lifestyle like theater tickets, trees in our back yard, a CSA subscription, skiing tickets and a Sunday New York Times subscription! It was also a great way for people to show a little of their own personality in the gifts that they chose to contribute to.