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Hollywood, California–Friendgiftr annouces the first-of-its-kind Facebook e-commerce application selling America’s # 1 most wanted gift: popular retail and restaurant gift cards. The Friendgiftr application, after one year in development, will be launching soon with more than 120 leading U.S. merchant gift cards, including Gap, Dominos Pizza, Pottery Barn, Chili’s, Barnes & Noble, Applebee’s, Marriott, P.F. Chang’s, Dell, Overstock.com, Panera Bread, Red Lobster, Regal Cinemas, Sephora, and other premium-branded gift cards.

Facebook users will be able to buy and send real digital and/or physical gift cards to friends, family, and associates for the holidays, birthdays, other special occasions, or anytime. Buyers can select from over 120 of their favorite retail and restaurant gift cards to buy $10, $20, $25, $35, $50, $75, and $100 cards. But what’s really special about Friendgiftr is that end receivers are empowered to get what they really want — they can exchange the gift card given to them from their friends or family for any of the 120 merchants Friendgiftr offers for no additional cost and without the buyer knowing. “Friendgiftr wants to make life easier and more convenient by giving users a choice to quickly, easily, and securely buy and send their favorite gift cards to their friends and family on sites like Facebook without having to go to the store or search all over the internet,” says co-founder Rob Carpenter. “You choose a gift card, enter your friend’s name, and check out. It’s really that fast and simple. And if your friend doesn’t like the gift card you give them, they can choose the one they really want instead.”

Friendgiftr will be encouraging users to add its app by giving away a free $500 gift card to a lucky user who has the app installed before December 20; a free $1000 gift card to a college user who has the app installed before December 20; and a “Friendgiftr Scholarship” to the college or university that has the most app users signed up before January 1, 2010. Additionally, Friendgiftr will give away free $25 gift cards every week, and $100 cards every month, for one year to a lucky user who has the app installed and/or follows its page on Twitter (http://twitter.com/friendgiftr). There is no limit to how many times a user can win a free gift card.

“Friendgiftr is combining e-commerce and social networking just in time for holiday shopping,” says co-founder David Murphy. “You can currently send cute virtual cupcakes on Facebook, which is really cool, but you will also soon be able to send America’s most wanted gift: retail and restaurant gift cards. It’s fast, it’s easy, and it’s a great Christmas or birthday gift!”

Friendgiftr, after more than a year in in “stealth-mode,” will be launching very soon. Follow http://twitter.com/friendgiftr for details. For additional information, including a list of featured merchants, a product demo, and information on promotional giveaways, please contact co-founders Rob Carpenter or David Murphy [contact information above].

About Friendgiftr, Inc.
Friendgiftr is the premiere gift card company that offers over 120 of America’s favorite retail and restaurant gift cards through social networking sites. It is the grand prize winner of the prestigious Henry Kravis Award in venture capital and entrepreneurship, and has received investor funding from amongst Tech Coast Angels’ membership as a Fast Pitch finalist. FriendGiftr founders also placed first in a VentureBeat.com technology trends competition held in conjunction with the prestigious DEMO Conference for the concept of merging social networking and e-commerce. FriendGiftr is partnered with iCard Systems, a leading provider of electronic and physical gift cards.