Firebox makes Secret Santa world record attempt

by Staff, revolutionmagazine.com 18-Nov-09, 15:00

LONDON - Gadget and gift website Firebox.com is to attempt to set a world record by organising a global secret santa in the run up to Christmas.

The retailer wants to get a record number of people involved in secret santa - the practice of buying gifts but giving them anonymously.

Global secret santa invites users to spend £9 on a choice of one of 18 gifts to be given to a mystery person, and then receive one in return.

The range of products on offer, from a set of Classic Airfix Toy Solders to a packet of chocolate-covered ants, and they could be sent anywhere in the world. Participants are able to write a personalised message in the present before it is despatched.

Christian Robinson, managing director of Firebox.com, said: "Global Secret Santa is all about surprising and connecting people. To think that there will be people this Christmas getting gifts from strangers they've never met, from the other side of the world is just amazing. The buzz has been brilliant so far and we are thrilled about the prospect of setting a new world record."

Comments

Mark Bridge - 20/11/2009

To me, this comes across as a cynical, commercially-motivated stunt. Why not try to break the world record for the number of online transactions in a day instead? Yet simply adding "... and £1 of your purchase price goes to charity" would have transformed it. Sorry, Firebox, I'm a fan but I think you've got this one wrong.