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Internet Pints

November 12, 2006 By Jay Brooks

I got an e-mail from Patrick from YouGotBeer.com about his new website, which allows you to send someone a beer over the internet. It seems like a fairly intriguing, if somewhat wacky idea, to buy someone a pint in cyberspace. It’s a simple enough idea. Using PayPal you send whoever you want a gift card that can be redeemed for a pint at specific locations. It still appears to be in its early stages, because there’s a limited number of places, about fourteen chain restaurants/bars/brewpubs. Although the wesbite claims — and I can’t dispute it — those few chains add up to thousands of locations in all 50 states. But if they get more unique places to sign up, it could really turn into something. Who wouldn’t like to see “You’ve Got Beer!” in their inbox, especially when you really could redeem it for a pint of beer.

Filed Under: Just For Fun Tagged With: Promotions, Websites



Comments

  1. Ron says

    November 14, 2006 at 9:26 am

    I’ve used this service before and it’s great – easy and inexpensive. $5 for a gift anyone
    would love is hard to beat. Each chain has a bunch of locations and you can look
    up a location near someone you know. A lot better than walking through some store trying
    to figure out what to buy someone.

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