RE: Create Your Own Gift Baskets?

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There's one problem with your logic that I can see (I've been in the industry before so I know about it). If a person picks a basket what if they put too much (or too little) stuff in for the size of it. As you're probably aware basket prices can vary substantially from a small one to a large one.

The only workaround I've thought of so far is to figure out in advance how many products will fit in a particular size and then give appropriate options when the person has said they are finished (which creates a problem of what if they want to add additional items later before they checkout). In other words I think the basket itself should be the [i]last [/i]choice not the first. The other issue this creates is that products come in all different shapes and sizes so it would be tough to decide the optimal number for a given basket.

One specific solution I've found is called baskweb (just add the dot com to get to the site). They have a list of items for people to choose from to create a custom basket. The thing I don't like about it is that unless you want to have 100s of items all on that one page it's difficult for a customer to create much of a variety. The way it handles combining items is helpful from a logic standpoint though.

In this case I don't think the computer configurator makes much sense as there really needs to be an infinite number of options (unlike in the case of a PC).

Hmmm......