Comments on: Send anything, anywhere, without an address-SendSocial.com launches today!

By: How to Find Your Niche

How to Find Your Niche — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 07:59:54 +0000

If this SendSocial.com is aiming to solve the address issue by enabling you to send anything, anywhere without an address this is a very nice site. I hope internet users will know this also.

By: Duane Henneman

Duane Henneman — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:49:22 +0000

Hey Guys,

There are some interesting comments listed above and some make sense. However, after looking further it just seems like SendSocial looks a bit awkward?

I don’t know about the UK but here in the USA, obtaining an address is rather simple. And yes, people always seem to be on the move…

I couldn’t help but think about my own company. We allow you to include a personal message with your personal signature, a digital photo of your choice or select from over 13K samples, include your choice of gifts, press send on your computer and you are done…

Our company then creates your greeting card or whatever, with your personal message and signature, puts it into an envelope or package when sending gifts, stamps it with a real stamp(s), addresseses it and mails it around the world…It’s just that simple.

Some things can be just that simple even in this fast pace society we live in. Just one thing, you do need to supply the addresses, but we do everything else for you…

If you would like to see what we do, take a look at http://thereferralbrokers.com. It’s just another way of doing business, but it’s very effective in many parts of the world…And we have carved out an amazing niche market. No one on the planet does what we do!

No offense intended to the SendSocial team… I love and respect entrepreneurs who step outside the box. outside their comfort leave and build a dream.

I wish the all the best,

Duane Henneman
Denver, Colorado USA

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By: Louise Campbell

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:39:02 +0000

Hi Harry
“You’d have to spend twice for postage.”
interesting point – a CD sent registered signed for via post office is about £2 and registered next day is £5. I would pay £3.99 (about half way) so I would not have to stand the pain of the UK PO Q.
“If they had an inventory of things to sell”
Well I would imagine this is the next stage, link up with amazon, ebay etc. it makes sense.
“forbidden from sending flowers!”
Maybe they could set up a 24hr reprieve on Valentines for flowers ? Good questions though, all logical points that need attending.

By: Harry

Harry — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:47:04 +0000

I agree there is a conflict of interest here. You can’t possibly give an unbiased view…….however that’s fine if you declare it. Most people that have an interest would declare it for the benefit of the reader.

On SendSocial itself…… it just seems a little redundant. If they had an inventory of things to sell… then the anon service might benefit gift sales…. but they don’t. You’d have to spend twice for postage.

If I bought a cd/dvd for less than a tenner…. it would take 3 days to get to me……. then i’d have to resend it for another £4…….and take another 5 days to get to the recipient. If they had stock…..they could send anon items direct from the warehouse.

Also….if you look on myHermes/SendSocial’s websites…. it says you can’t send a whole host of items.

Come valentines day…… you are forbidden from sending flowers!

By: Iain Haywood

Iain Haywood — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:23:35 +0000

I definitely feel, as others have already mentioned that sendsocial will be substantially more successful as a business tool than as a personal one. As with Paypal, people who have a pre-existing relationship may not see the value, but address-less sending of real world items must be the future at some stage, so why not now?

By: hermione

hermione — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:21:39 +0000

Rodger it’s my blog and I can cover what I want -related or unrelated- There are plenty of other sites/blogs that covered this story so if you don’t like the fact that I wrote a post on this then please go and read it elsewhere.

And next time, In the interests of objectivity shouldn’t you have the balls to be commenting under your real name instead of cowardly hiding behind an avatar?

By: Alex Housley

Alex Housley — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:19:31 +0000

Killer use case – eBay. You’re the winning bidder, but can you *really* trust the seller? There are often disputes over transactions and I would feel more comfortable buying from random people without having to reveal my home address. Well done Mr Way and co!
[Disclosure: I'm thankfully a minor shareholder having retweeted @benpbway's initial call to action :-]

By: Rodger

Rodger — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:57:49 +0000

Hermione – isn’t there the slightest conflict of interest in this startup being covered by TechFluff? In the interests of objectivity shouldn’t a journalist unrelated to SendSocial’s CEO be covering this story?

By: hermione

hermione — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:23:37 +0000

I think some people will prefer to use SendSocial whilst others just get the address themselves and use the postal service.

It’s a matter of preference, but for me i prefer the complete package that SendSocial offers rather than having to faff around with different components of sending a present, something which I’m far to busy and unorganized to do!

By: Tim Morgan

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:50:50 +0000

I think SendSocial is an awesome idea. I can the potential for this service for companies who run competitions on twitter like Moonfruit and Squarespace who were giving away those Macbook’s as prizes for retweeting their messages.

So for example lets say I was the winner of the Macbook and Moonfruit used SendSocial. I would have confidence in this company not having my address so they could send me junk mail and I’d still receive my prize.