# Say! What's the best no-registration free online greeting card site?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-whats-the-best-no-registration-free-online-greeting-card-site/449067
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [May 12, 2008, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-whats-the-best-no-registration-free-online-greeting-card-site/449067 "2008-05-12T18:49:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2008, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-whats-the-best-no-registration-free-online-greeting-card-site/449067/1 "2008-05-12T18:49:22Z")
… I need a site with friendship cards in particular.
H’m! Just had a thought. What might Wikipedia have under _Greeting Cards_?
Well, if anyone has one right off the top of their heads, let me know in the meantime. Thanks.
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TBJ
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### Author:  [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2008, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-whats-the-best-no-registration-free-online-greeting-card-site/449067/2 "2008-05-12T19:05:31Z")
[Hallmark.com](http://Hallmark.com) has lots of cute free ones.
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2008, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-whats-the-best-no-registration-free-online-greeting-card-site/449067/3 "2008-05-12T21:11:57Z")
Second the [Hallmark.com](http://Hallmark.com) recommendation, but I don’t think you can use it without registration.
I’m not even sure there is one that is all three of good+free+non-reg. I suspect most of the greetings sites that let you just send without registration to be little more than email address harvesting operations.
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### Author:  [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2008, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-whats-the-best-no-registration-free-online-greeting-card-site/449067/4 "2008-05-12T21:19:02Z")
Since this is more about opinions, let move it to IMHO.
**samclem** GQ moderator
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### Author:  [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2008, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-whats-the-best-no-registration-free-online-greeting-card-site/449067/5 "2008-05-12T21:30:22Z")
If snark is OK, there’s [www.someecards.com](http://www.someecards.com).
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### Author:  [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2008, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-whats-the-best-no-registration-free-online-greeting-card-site/449067/6 "2008-05-12T22:55:19Z")
I think [bluemountain.com](http://bluemountain.com) has some that are free. But beware!!! Even if you are a paid member, the recipient of your ecard will see ads. I just sent my mother a birthday card, and she said it came with a Botox ad!!! Fortunately she thought this was amusing.
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### Author:  [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2008, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-whats-the-best-no-registration-free-online-greeting-card-site/449067/7 "2008-05-12T23:30:24Z")
[QUOTE=Scarlett67]
If snark is OK, there’s [www.someecards.com](http://www.someecards.com).
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Definitely my favorite. “You’re the Oates to my Hall”? Genius! 🙂
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### Author:  [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2008, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-whats-the-best-no-registration-free-online-greeting-card-site/449067/8 "2008-05-14T19:30:14Z")
Thanks to all who responded.
I’m now thinking that there should be an annual thread, What is the best of…
– with several sections. Such as…
“Best online resource for given name derivations”
– and so on. Look for it soon. 🙂
In fact, maybe it should be quarterly. What do y’all think? If annual, middle third of spring (as it is now) would make a great tradition.
And, yes, I will be starting it here in IMHO, not General Questions. :smack:
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TBJ
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### Author:  [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2008, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-whats-the-best-no-registration-free-online-greeting-card-site/449067/9 "2008-05-14T19:43:29Z")
That’s a great idea! The Dopers’ Choice Awards!
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2008, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-whats-the-best-no-registration-free-online-greeting-card-site/449067/10 "2008-05-14T20:47:02Z")
If only polls were enabled here, eh?
Oh, I know… the server, the server!
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### Author:  [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2008, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-whats-the-best-no-registration-free-online-greeting-card-site/449067/11 "2008-05-14T20:51:37Z")
Personally I can’t stand online greetings cards. I never open the links to them - I have an opinion (probably wrong, but formed about a decade ago and therefore deeply ingrained) that they are all either email harvesting scams, or virus carriers, or both. Frankly I’d be a bit annoyed if someone had entered my email address into a free online greetings cards site, as I could pretty much guarantee that I’d be receiving penis spam from here to eternity.
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### Author:  [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2008, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-whats-the-best-no-registration-free-online-greeting-card-site/449067/12 "2008-05-15T08:32:32Z")
May I second **Colophon** ’s opinion?!
I hate email cards.
And it seems like every German I know just loves them to death, as I get them from Germany all the time.
I finally stopped opening those stupid things. They are usually some idiotic bouncing bunny with tacky artwork and a message that says, “Happy Day” or whatever.
The worst part is the Germans get really, really pissed off if I don’t open them - it seems they can see if I got the card and opened it and often I will get an email saying, “I sent you a card and you didn’t open it, why?”
Fine, I will open the stupid, crappy artwork, Flash card so you can get the receipt that I got it, and YES, I opened it. TaDa!
I really hate email cards. They are about as personal as Nigerian spam.
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### Author:  [@Find\_Friends](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Find_Friends)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2008, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-whats-the-best-no-registration-free-online-greeting-card-site/449067/13 "2008-05-15T18:52:04Z")
[QUOTE=Sigmagirl]
That’s a great idea! The Dopers’ Choice Awards!
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Thanks, Sigmagirl.
I was thinking of starting an IMHO thread today called “Spring Fling! What is the Very Best…”
I’ll just go with “Spring Fling! The Dopers’ Choice Awards…”
Thanks! 🙂
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TBJ
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### Author:  [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2008, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-whats-the-best-no-registration-free-online-greeting-card-site/449067/14 "2008-05-16T13:50:11Z")
I feel . . . so very . . . happy!