Everything anybody has actually asked about buying for somebody else.
From the inbox and the shop counter, in roughly the order people ask them, with the December ones at the top because that is when they get asked.
The December five.
The nineteenth for anything chilled, the twenty-second for everything else by courier, and the twenty-fourth at midnight for a digital gift card. Those are the real dates rather than padded ones.
A patch and a scholarship do not. A gift card does, slightly, and nobody has ever been genuinely disappointed by one.
Until two o’clock on Christmas Eve. The queue in December is long and it is worth knowing that before you drive.
No. Nothing gifted carries a price on the card, the packing note or in any email they receive.
Tell us on the day. We can usually do something on the twenty-third and almost nothing on the twenty-eighth.
The gift itself.
Yes, on everything. About one in nine gifts here is anonymous, and a third of scholarship shares are.
Reminders at seven and thirty days, then at ninety it becomes a gift card in their name for two years. If that expires unspent, ask and we refund you.
Within thirty days, for a credit, without telling you. It is the same outcome by a slightly longer route and it is deliberate.
No. Three months is three months, nothing is charged to anybody afterwards, and about a third of recipients start one themselves.
A patch or a cask, yes, with its whole record. A box subscription, no.
Money, borders and tax.
Yes, easily, as long as the recipient is in Britain. Nothing crosses a border and none of the rules apply.
Almost never. It is set out properly on From Abroad and the short answer is that meat, dairy and fresh produce are prohibited rather than merely difficult.
No. It is a cash voucher and therefore taxable, however small. A fifty-pound box of jam is not, which is the whole content of the employers page.
Ten pounds of credit each, or a thousand bushels each if you would rather have those. Theirs applies to a first order over thirty pounds; yours lands when that order has shipped and the fourteen-day return window has closed.
No. Nothing here takes money, no card details are collected anywhere, and every price on every page is illustrative.
The honest summary: about eight times out of ten a gift card is the right answer and everybody pretends otherwise. The two times it is not are when you know the person well enough to give them a patch, and when they have everything and you can give them somebody else’s apprenticeship instead.
The pages behind those answers.
The rules
Unclaimed gifts, anonymity, prices, and the four refusals.
Returns
And the recipient can use them without telling you.
From abroad
Three categories, and the swede that could not go to Sydney.
A scholarship
Twenty-four hundred pounds, and fifty-seven per cent of it goes on bus passes.
Back to the top.
Fourteen ways to buy something for somebody else.
Elsewhere on the estate.
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