Amazon Wishlists Give Away Your Presents
Want to know what you are getting for Christmas? Amazon will tell you. I recently told a few of my relatives what I would like for Christmas via my Amazon Wishlist. Today, I checked it and found a few items missing. What happened? Well, the Amazon wishlist defaults to “Unpurchased” items, however, when I went to the “Purchased” tab it shows me the missing items.
I guess you can figure out the rest from there. I’m not 100% sure who bought me what, but it appears that you can use your Amazon wishlist as a way to get an extra secret peak into Santa’s bag.
How should Amazon handle this?
Well assuming they are going to try and keep things “under wraps”, they should allow a user (Gifter) to purchase an item at any time and also keep it on the list for the original person (Giftee). If another Gifter arrives and wants to purchase the item, it should tell them “This gift has already been purchased for Jeff. Do you still want to purchase it?” And allow the Gifter to decide at that point. Although this still allows for me to run through my list of items and try to “purchase” them, it adds an additional layer on top of the Wishlist. Or maybe Amazon just doesn’t care since they make money either way 
Any other ideas? Post your thoughts in the comments.
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