Unique Gifts and Decor Celebrates a Successful Debut Christmas Season

New website that provides one-stop shopping for all things unique has successful debut holiday selling season.

2010-12-29

PHOENIX, AZ, December 29, 2010 (Press-News.org) Uniquegiftsanddecor.com announced that its first holiday selling season was very successful and increased its online presence as a destination site for truly unusual and special gifts and home decor products.

Don Oppenheim, vice president stated: "For a site that just went live in mid October of 2010, we did extremely well. Above all we met our goal of excelling at customer service."

Unique Gifts and Decor was established to provide consumers with a one-stop place for finding gifts and home decor items that are not easily found.

"My son and I both like things that are out of the mainstream," Oppenheim said. "When we googled "unique gifts," "unusual gifts" or similar phrases we found that a lot of places popped up that carried the same things that you could find anywhere."

The site carries over 1100 products ranging from home accents of many different types to antique phones.

"A lot of what we sell is unique because of styling," Oppenheim continued. "Many of our products are designed by noted artists and have Egyptian, Victorian, African, medieval or gothic influences that set them apart. Others are unique just by definition such as our gargoyle statues. Still others are unique because they are rare such as our antique telephones and brass bookends."

For the coming year the company plans on expanding its product lines and increasing its web presence.

Unique Gifts and Decor, Inc. specializes in the sale of unique and hard to find items for home decor, garden, outdoors and gifts through its website at http://www.uniquegiftsanddecor.com.

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