Gift Baskets Overseas

What to know about shopping at Gift Baskets Overseas

Gift Baskets Overseas exists to solve one problem: sending a gift to someone in another country without paying more in shipping than the gift is worth. It delivers to more than 200 countries, and where it can it fulfills locally rather than mailing a parcel across borders. The range runs from gourmet and fruit baskets to chocolate, flowers and plants, spa and pamper sets, baby gifts and corporate gift sets, organized both by occasion — birthday, anniversary, sympathy, graduation, wedding, retirement — and by who the present is for.

Demand here is holiday-driven, and so is availability. Christmas, Valentine's Day, Mother's Day and Easter are the peaks, with separate ranges for Rosh Hashanah, Diwali and Ramadan. Those are the windows when local fulfillment slots fill up first, so ordering ahead matters more on this retailer than waiting for a better price does.

Two standing discount codes are available at time of writing, worth 7% and 5% off, and they apply to an order rather than to a single collection. The service also offers date-scheduled delivery, address verification where an address is incomplete, and same-day e-gift options for occasions a physical delivery cannot reach in time.

Two practical tips. Set the destination country before you start browsing, because the catalog and the prices both change with it — what is available in one country is not necessarily offered in the next. And where you are unsure of the recipient's address, use the verification step rather than guessing, since an international gift that fails to deliver is far harder to recover than a domestic one.

— MoneySaverCodes Team