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Watsi x Goldbely Holiday Gift Package

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This is great!

Something I hope watsi does in the future: gift cards.

Sometimes, for friends, I like to make charitable donations in their name. It would be nice if I could give them $100 watsi credit, and then let them choose the distribution of it.

It's money. For people.

http://youtu.be/JJvbZZWt9g4

Tech + Non-profit + Marketing = Win-Win for everyone

I get to donate to charity and familiarize myself with an interesting company, all without having to exert a whole lot of effort. Simple. I like it.

This is awesome. I'd like to see more companies and startups work with Watsi to bring awareness to doing social good (especially when you don't have to lift a finger to do any of the hard stuff, these collaborations are making it easy for normal people to do good). Not to mention the desserts look amazing. Kudos.

I would buy 10 if I could ship on a particular date and have the gift card filled out in advanced.

No problem, we'll make it happen! For anyone that wants to, order on the site, and afterwards send an email to daniel at watsi.org with the following info for each package: 1) recipient's name, 2) recipient's shipping address, and 3) gift card message, and we'll deliver the gift(s) by 12/16/2013.

Can you explain the shipping process for "Frrrozen Hot Chocolate"?

It comes as a mix. We took a pic for you: http://i.imgur.com/RQ74EK1.jpg

You say the entire proceeds are going to patient care - but the gift package includes a $25 gift cert. What happens to the other $25?

The cost of the products & shipping, at a guess. The profit of each $50 box is $25, which is donated to Watsi.

The other $25 goes to pay the wholesale price of the desserts (normally $50, but Goldbely is providing them at cost to support patients on Watsi) and Watsi/Goldbely are covering the cost of the card and shipping.

Thanks for replying - I interpret "proceeds" as "gross proceeds" so was confused; it might be slightly clearer to say "net proceeds" or "profits". Either way, very cool idea!

Proceeds is synonymous with both profits and revenue so using this word is confusing, and even misleading.

Currently: "100% of the proceeds will be donated to fund medical care for patients on Watsi."

Suggest: "$25 will be donated to fund medical care for patients on Watsi."

Good catch. Changed to "net proceeds."

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/netproceeds.asp

That's not what the term means, and musise of poisons the well for all honest correct-speaking charities and their beneficiaries.

Just say "$25" or "50% of proceeds", and don't mislead customers.

Edi: looks like you already changed it to "$25". That's refreshing in its direct honesty. Thank you for doing the right thing.

I'm going to need a Watsi campaign for the food coma this is going to give me!

Is the donation certificate a receipt for tax purposes? (I'm just buying this for myself, those marshmallows look unbelievable. Great advertising for goldbely!)

That's a great question. It isn't. But if you email daniel at watsi.org we'll send you a tax-deductible receipt for the $25 donation.

Thanks for buying :)

This site is asking for my credit card but I don't see any SSL or VeriSign insignia. I want to support this cause but I never provide a credit card on a non-secured site, am I being paranoid or misunderstanding something here?

If you inspect the source, you'll see that the form where you enter your credit card is an https site in an iframe. That will protect you against a passive MITM attack, which is what most people worry about when submitting credit cards to a website.

Good catch. While the site isn't served over SSL, the actual Wufoo form is. And Stripe (who we're using to process the payments) only allows payments over SSL (https://stripe.com/help/ssl) so your information is safe.

Thanks for the clarification!

Admirable, but this doesn't really help the scenario where the outer page is intercepted and modified to serve a different iframe. (This is a common attack on pages that e.g. serve login forms over http, even though the form submits to https. Just change the form in-flight.)

Those snacks look delicious -- "A handpicked gift box of top Goldbely desserts from around the country" -- does it include the exact snacks pictured, or are they just examples?

So much love for this - nice work Watsi and Goldbely!

This is a no brainer. Eat chocolate, save lives.

Really need to put some social sharing options on that page.

Great idea though!

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