Modern manners
Jul. 22nd, 2004 01:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deviIs there an acceptable way to tell people you have started an, erm, an... amazon wishlist?
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Date: 2004-07-22 05:24 am (UTC)i need to go home before gym tonight anyway, so i can always find out when get home.
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Date: 2004-07-22 05:27 am (UTC)(“Gosh,” I thought, “those books look familiar. So does the name. And the description. Ah.”)
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Date: 2004-07-22 08:46 am (UTC)what happens if I happen to have things you want s/h already, and passed them on to you? just as good? (OK, one was a present (alebit s/h at that point), but I'm never going to read it. You can try to guess what...
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Date: 2004-07-23 03:53 am (UTC)So it's a book, and it's about something you might seem to be interested in but actually aren't. Hmm...
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Date: 2004-07-22 09:30 am (UTC)You might think this is a smart move on Amazon's part, because it encourages you to buy the thing from them. The catch is that normally if I'm buying something for someone I want to send it to myself and wrap it up. Consequently, wishlists are worse than useless because not only don't they support this but anything on them is liable to be bought by someone else.
Most ironic of all, anything not on the wishlist risks being something the person doesn't want. As a result, I'm most likely to get them something not from Amazon, just to be on the safe side !
(This being why I don't have a wishlist myself)
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Date: 2004-07-22 10:58 am (UTC)I guess I'll just have to take a chance and buy something from it anyway, and hope no one else has bought the same gift in Real Life and wrapped it up better than Amazon. :-)
(I don't have a Wlist either, as it happens!)
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Date: 2004-07-23 04:03 am (UTC)I suppose if you wanted to 'mark' something as having been bought elsewhere, the only way would be to get in touch with the recipient as soon as you'd bought it, so they could take it off the list. (Though that does mean no mysterious surprise parcels in the post...)
bateleur: Things not on the wishlist aren't necessarily things I don't want, they might be things I would want if I knew about them. :)
kasku: Ooh. Thank you!
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