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No more wasting time playing the gift-giving guessing game. Everyone wants to give a gift that is appreciated and well-liked. Now, when you go to buy a present for a friend or a family member, you can be sure you’re getting them the gifts they really want. Online shopping has never been easier or more convenient! Now when someone registers for gifts online, you can purchase them gifts from your own home without the hassles of long lines at the checkout counter or limiting store hours. When you shop on gotVCU.com’s ultimate online wish list, you’ll find that all items are organized and beautifully displayed for your viewing pleasure. In addition, gotVCU.com ensures that each item has a gift title and price along with the quantity desired by the wish list holder. Once you decide which present you would like to buy or browse, we will automatically connect you to the store where you can complete the purchase transaction. Best of all, purchasing gifts from gotVCU.com puts money back into VCU’s student programs, so gotVCU.com helps make the college experience better for VCU students!
A gotVCU.com member's wish list is a stylish display of everything they ‘wish for.’ Each gift has its own image, price, quantity and the member's notes, if added. You may also view the gift list by categories if they were created by the member for this purpose. To buy a present for a wish list member, first locate the account by using our 'Find a wish list' feature (on the top left corner of the homepage). Once you are directed to the member's wish list, you will have access to photos, personal and event information. To view the member's wish list, click the ‘wish list’ tab. That’s it!
Just by a simple click of a button, our service will automatically direct you the store that sells whatever item you want to view, but first, gotVCU.com will ask you to enter your name and e-mail address for our records. We will never share any of your information with third parties and only use it to keep track of gifts purchased from VCU students’ wish lists. Once you are directed the store, you will have the option to either view the gift or complete the purchase transaction. If you buy the item, you will receive a confirmation e-mail from the store stating that your purchase transaction was successful. Whether you decide to buy the present or not, once you close the store’s website window you will see behind it a page where gotVCU.com asks you to report if the gift was purchased or not. You will have several options to choose from. If you select one of the ‘No’ options and click 'Submit', that gift will become available again on the wish list. If you select one of the ‘Yes’ options, you will have the option to hide your name from the wish list holder (if you intend to surprise them) and include the quantity purchased, if more than one of the same item was purchased. Once the 'Submit' button is clicked, that gift will become unavailable for others to buy. It is important that you report if you bought the gift or not to keep the wish list up-to-date.
Even if you accidentally mark an item as purchased or change your mind about the purchase, you will have the option to restore the item back to the wish list when you go back to it. When an item is marked as purchased, our members are notified (if they choose that option) via e-mail or by cell phone text messaging (SMS Gift Alert Service) that a present was bought for them. If you choose to hide your name, the member will still see which gift was bought, but the gift- giver's name will be unavailable to them. As a guest, you will receive an e-mail from gotVCU.com, thanking you for using our service and buying a present from our member's wish list.
Finally, if you decide to go to the physical store to purchase the same item displayed on the wish list, you still need to mark that present as purchased to avoid duplicate purchasing. To mark a gift as purchased, even after you already bought the item, simply go to the wish list gift list and click the 'Buy Gift' button of the item you would like marked. Once you are directed to the store website, immediately close that website window and you will see a page that asks if you purchased the gift or not. Select any of the 'Yes' options to make that item unavailable for other guests to purchase.
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