{"id":21562,"date":"2016-02-10T21:22:07","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T13:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=21562"},"modified":"2016-02-10T21:28:34","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T13:28:34","slug":"less-than-half-of-filipinos-satisfied-with-vday-gifts-received","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2016\/02\/10\/less-than-half-of-filipinos-satisfied-with-vday-gifts-received\/","title":{"rendered":"Less than half of Filipinos satisfied with VDay gifts received"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In an online survey of over 300 respondents, only a third (36%) of Filipinos claimed to be really happy with their Valentine\u2019s Day gifts. Less than half (46%) said that they were satisfied while 3% expressed absolute dissatisfaction.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Lazada1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21563\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21563\" src=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Lazada1.jpg\" alt=\"Lazada1\" width=\"620\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Lazada1.jpg 620w, http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Lazada1-300x258.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Lazada2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21564\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21564\" src=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Lazada2.jpg\" alt=\"Lazada2\" width=\"620\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Lazada2.jpg 620w, http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Lazada2-300x258.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The survey, conducted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lazada.com.ph\" target=\"_blank\">Lazada<\/a>, explored the processes and reasons for the lack of contentment over Valentine\u2019s Day gifts.<\/p>\n<p>Almost one in four respondents (23%) expressed that chocolates and couple\u2019s shirts are clich\u00e9, but the most clich\u00e9 gifts are picture frames with over 40% of people agreeing they are pass\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, over 30% of respondents agree that flowers are a must have, beating out chocolates (19%), stuffed toys (9.6%). Surprisingly, more and more people (15%) see gadgets as an essential gift for the month of romance.<\/p>\n<p>It seems surprise gifts are falling out of fashion as an overwhelming 86% of respondents prefer to express to their partners what they want. This transparency between couples extends to finding deals. 65% of respondents said they don\u2019t mind sharing that they got their gifts on sale. The implicit learning is that if you get your partner the gift they want, it doesn\u2019t matter if you got it on discount.<\/p>\n<p>The survey also explored love in the digital space. Overtly expressing affection over social media or \u201cOnline PDA\u201d seems acceptable with 52% of respondents saying they practice social media PDA themselves.<\/p>\n<p>However, when it comes to meeting love interests online, half of the respondents had hesitations with online dating. 51% agreed with the statement: \u201cOnline shopping never hurt anyone, people do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an online survey of over 300 respondents, only a third (36%) of Filipinos claimed to be really happy with their Valentine\u2019s Day gifts. Less than half (46%) said that they were satisfied while 3% expressed absolute dissatisfaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[2422,2782,746,96,4075],"class_list":["post-21562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-lazada","tag-lazada-philippines","tag-online-shopping","tag-technology","tag-vday2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}