Best way to save items in a Amazon shopping cart as like a list so you remember them ? Without actually keeping them in the cart forever

[Mai72]

Like others have stated: Save for later.

You can also make a list. For example, I have a supplement list, and I go to this whenever I need more supplements like creatine, multivitamins, fish oil.

 

[JimKiler]

This is what the Wish List option is for.

For example, here is my wish list I did for my gaming PC last year:

Check out my list on Amazon

www.amazon.com

We need to talk about your choice in cases. There is barely any venting. Get something better like a be quiet 500DX or something with a mesh front.

 

[JimKiler]

Dude make up your mind ..... are you wealthier then the "dreams of Avarice" courtesy of your Tesla stock or not?



(seriously only the "McMansion" crowd thinks bragging about having $ even indirectly is cool)

You got me, I can afford to pay for Prime but I choose not to. I did have it a free trial for 3 months last spring and promptly binged The Boys. I am frugal but my wife is paying off our house so we will be debt free in a couple years unless we buy a car on credit before then.

 

[Muse]

Add to cart, then click "Save for Later"

I have ~ 100 items in my "save for later" shopping cart.

I have done this for years. Totally works. It's similar to Ebay's Watch List. I do it even if I've already bought the item. I can go there and hit the item page and read reviews, see questions, ask a question, etc. I also keep a record in a table of any purchase I make and try to include a link to the product page. Having the item in my Save for Later list is a reminder I can check up on reviews or whatever.

 

[Muse]

I make a folder in desktop and put the bookmark/website shortcut
inside. When I'm done , delete it. Amazon also has a similar option called save for later. It will notify you if/when prices for the saved item changes.

I have the Honey extension installed in Chrome and I Droplist items. Honey sends me an email when a droplisted item is available at a lower price. I haven't figured out all the twisted crazy features of Honey yet. I just don't get some of the things going on with it, e.g. how to ditch an item. Sometimes it works, other times doesn't seem to. Anyway, I've bought a lot of discounted stuff because of Honey, even got a gift card from them after accumulating enough Honey points.

 

[Ajay]

"Stupid"? They've notified me of worthwhile price drops in the past, and saved me some cash on an item... that's part of why I keep some items in my "Save for Later" list versus a shopping list.

Welp, up or down I get notified; well, until I turned off notifications. If I'm price hunting, I just usually check several times a day - most of the time, I'm not and the fact that the coffee I order dropped 0.01% in price doesn't matter. But, I can see how it could help with a large PC purchase, especially given the price volatility the past couple of years.

 

[Captante]

Welp, up or down I get notified; well, until I turned off notifications. If I'm price hunting, I just usually check several times a day - most of the time, I'm not and the fact that the coffee I order dropped 0.01% in price doesn't matter. But, I can see how it could help with a large PC purchase, especially given the price volatility the past couple of years.

Most of the price drops I get notified about on Amazon are admittedly so small as to be pretty much worthless BUT to call the tiny, unobtrusive notifications they generate in your cart a huge nuisance is kinda silly.

 

[ultimatebob]

We need to talk about your choice in cases. There is barely any venting. Get something better like a be quiet 500DX or something with a mesh front.

Yes, I'll admit that I chose that case before Steve from Gamers Nexus taught me about the dangers of poor case ventilation.

I didn't actually end up buying that PC, but I'll fix it anyway.

 

[nakedfrog]

Welp, up or down I get notified; well, until I turned off notifications. If I'm price hunting, I just usually check several times a day - most of the time, I'm not and the fact that the coffee I order dropped 0.01% in price doesn't matter. But, I can see how it could help with a large PC purchase, especially given the price volatility the past couple of years.

Ah, I only get notifications when I'm adding new stuff to my cart, not emails or anything.

 

[Stiff Clamp]

Nice thing about an Amazon list is . . . you can drop a comment on stuff - which I'm pretty sure sellers can see.
I use the comment field to record the LOWEST price I've seen the item offered for.

Trouble with picking out items on Amazon is, it shows interest in the item - which Amazon can milk for profit. Better to keep the shopping list as a collection of bookmarks in the browser - so Amazon won't know that you are interested.

 

[JM Aggie08]

Maybe you should write a quick webapp in a docker container that leverages the Amazon API, OP.

 

[Geekbabe]

I just use the save for later option.

 

[Muse]

Nice thing about an Amazon list is . . . you can drop a comment on stuff - which I'm pretty sure sellers can see.
I use the comment field to record the LOWEST price I've seen the item offered for.

Trouble with picking out items on Amazon is, it shows interest in the item - which Amazon can milk for profit. Better to keep the shopping list as a collection of bookmarks in the browser - so Amazon won't know that you are interested.

@Stiff Clamp - Drop a comment? How do you mean? You're not talking about a "Review" are you? A "Question" ??

What do you mean by showing interest? How?? Can you explain these things?

 

[Stiff Clamp]

@Stiff Clamp - Drop a comment? How do you mean? You're not talking about a "Review" are you? A "Question" ??

What do you mean by showing interest? How?? Can you explain these things?

Uhh, you never noticed where it says "Edit comment . . ." ? Here's one where I put the (lowest observed) price in the comment field - $80.


One time I put "more like $22" in the comment field and the next day there was a price drop to that exact price I'd mentioned. It was a car seat cover selling for $32 at the time, which I thought was pricey.
Ergo, I'm convinced sellers can read the comments. Comments are (ostensibly) for the benefit of people buying you stuff off your list.


Explain what? Any time you put something in a cart or on a list, or save for later, Amazon can detect that. Soooo you're tipping off Amazon that you have an interest in the item you selected. Jeez.

 

[ultimatebob]

Dude make up your mind ..... are you wealthier then the "dreams of Avarice" courtesy of your Tesla stock or not?



(seriously only the "McMansion" crowd thinks bragging about having $ even indirectly is cool)

Hey now... people get richer by buying Tesla stock. They get poorer by buying an actual Tesla

 

[lxskllr]

Trouble with picking out items on Amazon is, it shows interest in the item - which Amazon can milk for profit. Better to keep the shopping list as a collection of bookmarks in the browser - so Amazon won't know that you are interested.

I can't prove it, and I have no knowledge of them doing so, but I've kinda suspected this. It's an obvious use of analytics, and I'd be more surprised if they didn't use it this way. It could theoretically work in the buyer's favor buy dropping the price to get you to bite, but I'd rather just avoid the whole thing. I keep my lists in my head, and just put together another order for the stuff I forgot :^D

 

[Stopsignhank]

There is a function called save for later, but you have to put it in cart first, then go to cart and move it to save for later.

I have to use that constantly because my wife doesn't understand carts. She uses my login and just order without verifying what is in the cart

My wife does not understand changing the names. Everything comes to the house in my name. Gets interesting around Christmas time.

 

[Stopsignhank]

I have the Honey extension installed in Chrome and I Droplist items. Honey sends me an email when a droplisted item is available at a lower price. I haven't figured out all the twisted crazy features of Honey yet. I just don't get some of the things going on with it, e.g. how to ditch an item. Sometimes it works, other times doesn't seem to. Anyway, I've bought a lot of discounted stuff because of Honey, even got a gift card from them after accumulating enough Honey points.

You mean this Honey? Trying to watch a video at work and this ad popped up. Quite surprising.

 

[Muse]

Uhh, you never noticed where it says "Edit comment . . ." ? Here's one where I put the (lowest observed) price in the comment field - $80.
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One time I put "more like $22" in the comment field and the next day there was a price drop to that exact price I'd mentioned. It was a car seat cover selling for $32 at the time, which I thought was pricey.
Ergo, I'm convinced sellers can read the comments. Comments are (ostensibly) for the benefit of people buying you stuff off your list.


Explain what? Any time you put something in a cart or on a list, or save for later, Amazon can detect that. Soooo you're tipping off Amazon that you have an interest in the item you selected. Jeez.

It was tough finding the item, but I did:

https://www.amazon.com/Homak-32-Inch-Industrial-Toolbox-BW00200320/dp/B001KWCHAI/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

I don't see "Edit comment"

A search for that has 0/0.

Dunno, where is that? Can you pick an item that's in stock, link it and tell/show me where that is?

 

[Muse]

You mean this Honey? Trying to watch a video at work and this ad popped up. Quite surprising.

Looks to be it, indeed. I think I first heard of it a few years ago in a newspaper story, doesn't matter. It was a while before I got it installed and running. I'm sure it supports several browsers, it's an extension.

 

[Muse]

I can't prove it, and I have no knowledge of them doing so, but I've kinda suspected this. It's an obvious use of analytics, and I'd be more surprised if they didn't use it this way. It could theoretically work in the buyer's favor buy dropping the price to get you to bite, but I'd rather just avoid the whole thing. I keep my lists in my head, and just put together another order for the stuff I forgot :^D

Honey helps, but if the price never lowers, Honey doesn't factor in, you get no response from it. The default trigger for a message from honey on a droplisted item is a price reduction of 5%. You can tweak that when you setup the drop (i.e. right on the Amazon page, there's a Honey flag you click). I usually just leave it at 5%. The triggers usually are a lot more than 5%. But frequently I'll get an email from Honey that an item has dropped biggly, say a $40 item selling at $25, and I hit the link and it's at $40 because they jumped the price back up real quick. Honey will search other online retailers, for instance I bought a set of headphones the other day that Adorama had been selling around $200 but I got it at $69. Amazon had it between $73 and $79 the last few days. Got all that info from Honey but I had to check Amazon and Adorama for confirmation of price by hitting the links in the Honey email alerts.

Honey also usually shows you the Price History. That defaults to 30 days but I always change that to 120 days (the max).

 

[JimKiler]

I can't prove it, and I have no knowledge of them doing so, but I've kinda suspected this. It's an obvious use of analytics, and I'd be more surprised if they didn't use it this way. It could theoretically work in the buyer's favor buy dropping the price to get you to bite, but I'd rather just avoid the whole thing. I keep my lists in my head, and just put together another order for the stuff I forgot :^D

I am not sure they watch it that closely. Sometimes the prices drops and sometimes it increases, Amazon lists will tell you the percent change of current price compared to when the item was listed.

 

[KidNiki1]

Heck I even have one item in my cart, the Necronomnomnom. I just need to wait for $7.42 more stuff until I order it. The book looks great: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1682684385/

on a tangent, i received this as a christmas gift, and it is amazingly funny. and all the recipes sound really great. but it is a great book to just read, even though one doesn't normally read a recipe book.


with respect to the topic, i just use the lists for items i want. i have a list for each minion, a list for others to see for gift type stuff, and my private list for items i am considering. i have a few things in save for later, but that's usually just because i didn't go and add those things to one of my lists

 

[nakedfrog]

It was tough finding the item, but I did:

https://www.amazon.com/Homak-32-Inch-Industrial-Toolbox-BW00200320/dp/B001KWCHAI/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

I don't see "Edit comment"

A search for that has 0/0.

Dunno, where is that? Can you pick an item that's in stock, link it and tell/show me where that is?

Did you add it to your list first, then go to where the item is on your list?

 

[Muse]

Did you add it to your list first, then go to where the item is on your list?

I didn't know about Amazon lists. Where is that?