Want to send a thank you gift card to those who wrote me a letter of recommendation. Is $50 from Amazon good enough? From what I can tell, each recommender spent about 4 hours on this. Thoughts?

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I sent each of my 4 recommenders a Rolex DJ with fluted bezel

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I spent $150-200 but really depends

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Try to be more inventive than Amazon - buy them books like like, a restaurant voucher, something personalised. Your recommenders are likely richer than you (if your at BCG and you got a partner to write it then definitely) so they care less about the money and more about the thought

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For each person?

$100 don’t be cheap

I spent 100 dollars, you work at BCG… get something nice and thoughtful

I gave $150 to each of my recommenders

I got them each a nice bottle of booze

100 Amazon gift card minimum

$250 each and not MBB, step it up

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