kasku> Yes, kinda. The really sucky thing about wishlists, though, is that 3rd parties can't mark that they've bought you something from it other than by buying via the wishlist.
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 !
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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)