Hi. Are you here to learn about how we review gift baskets? or about us personally? Either way, you are on the right page. We are like the J.D. Power and Associates of gift baskets. We go through each gift basket with a fine-tooth comb and tell you what we find. We make videos of each of the gift baskets unwrapping themselves so you can see what you are really buying. We've taken hundreds of high quality photos of each gift basket and posted them on our site. We give you our honest opinions of each gift basket. We have gotten so good at it that gift basket companies give us exclusive coupon codes to pass on to you in hopes of winning over your business.
How It Works
Step One
We order a gift basket in the $100 price range (or as close as we can get) from a company that ships their products nationwide. The company must sell their products online, so our readers can redeem the coupon codes we negotiate to buy the baskets. We have the baskets sent to our reviewer, Leah. We recognize that she is kind of sassy and that you may not agree with everything she says. By all means, contribute your own review of the basket - the more reviews, the merrier.
Step Two
Next we pretend we are the pickiest friend, CEO, client or relative recipient you have. Once the basket arrives we immediately make a stop motion video of the basket unwrapping itself. We post that video on our YouTube channel and our website. We then have a series of professional, quality photos taken of the basket and its contents. We taste everything. We read ingredients. We research where the items came from and how much they cost.
Step Three
We then grade the gift basket. The results of our reviews, the photos and the coupon codes are all posted on our website for the benefit of our visitors.
Our Team
Jared
Jared Sidwell is our Founder. He started GiftReviews.com to become the "Consumer Reports" of the Gifting industry.
You'll often find him hiking, running, golfing, or at a BYU football or Utah Jazz game. He enjoys laughing with friends, playing the piano, going to rock concerts and Broadway plays. He loves sushi, bacon cheese burgers, lasagna and carrot cake with cream cheese frosting.
Leah
Feel free to send all rotten tomatoes, thank you cards or fruit baskets to Leah, our main reviewer and Creative Director at Fruit Basket Review. She oversaw the design, videography and photography of this website and all the new branding for Fruit Basket Review.
Leah's not-so-secret dream is to one day become some sort of female Ken Burns and do a stand-up comedy routine just once to see what it feels like. She shoots with a Nikon, loves typography and is a recovering Pinterest addict. She has no Twitter account because she doesn't believe in it but does have a personal blog if you feel inclined to stalk her.
Dave
A technology-loving, horseback-riding, downhill-skiing and website-running rockstar, Dave does all the back-end development and management of our website. Always an entrepreneur at heart, Dave started his own web development company to help small businesses get more done for less money.
He is the proud Daddy of a new little girl he and his wife adopted and have a baby boy on the way. When he isn't holding a baby he is probably holding a fly fishing rod or a new gizmo or gadget; two of his other loves.
