Amazon's Universal Wish List button: add anything on the web to your wish list

http://www.amazon.com/gp/wishlist/get-button/

by jfi • 16 years ago

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jfi• 16 years ago

Likely inspired by Facebook's universal Like button. Now AMZN can know what you like (and would pay for!) across the whole web ... very smart move.

olliesaunders2• 16 years ago

Yes, I considered adding it to my bookmark bar and then I thought about how it would make me want to buy a lot more things, so I didn't.

dwwoelfel• 16 years ago

I find that it has the opposite effect. When I see something on the internet I want to buy, I add it to my wishlist instead of buying it. Then I forget about it until I look at my wishlist again, usually weeks later.

The best part is the added perspective and context the wishlist gives me. I can't buy that Old Smokey grill, for example, because the cast iron skillet is still in my wishlist and I want that more. And I didn't buy the skillet yesterday, so I probably won't buy it today -- sometimes status quo bias works in my favor.

wwortiz• 16 years ago

If I'm not mistaken this has been around a lot longer than facebooks like button.

yarek• 16 years ago

Correct. At least three years as a concept.

dazzla• 16 years ago

This was available long before the Facebook button.

mechanician• 16 years ago

On a barely related note, I just noticed Amazon is now advertising the 'optimized for Amazon' feature of IE8. An interesting partnership.

WillyF• 16 years ago

I got really excited about this when I found out about it, but have barely used it since. Maybe it's because the only person who buys me stuff from my Wish List is my Mom.

meattle• 16 years ago

It has been around for a while. Been using Amazon Wishlist through Shareaholic.

TrevorBramble• 16 years ago

I wish there was some magic to this, but it's just a static entry in the wish list that doesn't reflect any changes that may occur to the offering after adding it.

I didn't think much of that until I noticed myself automatically skipping past those entries visually while examining the contents of my wish list. I don't trust that information, so it's ignored.

Amazon's Universal Wish List button: add anything on the web to your wish list

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