May 14 2009

Amazon wish list quite crappy really

Published by Dougal at 9:27 pm under Computing

The Amazon wish list appears to be the least intelligent thing on the internet, and I’m including the comments on the BBC’s Have Your Say forums in that generalisation.

  • If you buy something from your wishlist, it doesn’t disappear from your wishlist. In fact, the opposite happens — Amazon then advertises a whole bunch of related things which are totally redundant because of what you bought. There are only so many widescreen TVs a person can buy.
  • If you pre-order something it doesn’t disappear from your wishlist either. In fact, it remains on your wishlist with a button to “pre-order this item”.

I find the wishlist really useful to remember stuff that I want to buy in future but it’s completely useless at updating when you’ve bought something without visiting the wish list page first and choosing to buy from there.

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One Response to “Amazon wish list quite crappy really”

  1. # Steveon 15 May 2009 at 4:10 pm

    It only disappears if you click “Add to basket” on the wishlist page, which is a bit pants!

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