Look What Was Under Reddit's Christmas Tree This Year
Silver, gold, and weird bathing suits -- it was the season of giving at reddit, where premium subscriptions and gifts among virtual friends brought a different kind of e-commerce to the social space. Reddit reports that its 4th annual Secret Santa gift exchange brought gifts to 58,504 people in 126 countries, who spent nearly $2 million in gifts and shipping.
Silver, gold, and weird bathing suits — it was the season of giving at reddit, where premium subscriptions and gifts among virtual friends brought a different kind of e-commerce to the social space.
Reddit reports that its 4th annual Secret Santa gift exchange brought gifts to 58,504 people in 126 countries, who spent nearly $2 million in gifts and shipping. An additional 11,000 people in 90 countries opted to exchange greeting cards.
The newly launched redditgifts Marketplace might have had a hand in some of the gift selections, as the Santas seemed to hit every section of the department store and then some.
On the shopping list was Borat-style bathing suit, a sunlamp “to help with seasonal depression,” and 22 pounds of potatoes (which came with a free hernia for the postal worker who had to carry it, we suspect.) Other
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