Often people will ask me to share my Amazon wishlist for birthdays/christmas. It’s pretty convenient for them, and it’ll mean I’m getting something I’m genuinely after.
However I’m trying to avoid Amazon going forward. Are there any websites you’d recommend that allow you to share a wishlist which collates links from other sites?
This one seems really good - nice UI, and majority of the profit going to charities. Thanks!
An itemized list of things published wherever people can access it? Heck, just email it to them. Let them figure out where they want to spend their money.
That doesn’t take the most essential feature of such a wishlist into account:
Items are removed when purchased, preventing accidental double purchases by multiple guests.
With your E-Mail list, chances are high that you’d be getting the same item twice or more.
Just send em an online spreadsheet and let them figure it out so there’s no duplicates. Fill in your name to reserve an item and indicate if it has been purchased or not.
Christ yes, you’re right. What is this, the 1990’s? What’s next? Suggesting that people coordinate and cooperate by communicating with each other like some sort of dark age savages? Hah, might as well suggest that people call each other and work things out, which is - let’s be honest - just one small step away from snail-mailing clay tablets.
Don’t know what I was thinking, really. Apologies.
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Are you really arguing against the utility of a purpose-built application just because there are existing (less efficient) ways of doing things?
No, of course not. I’m suggesting alternatives for those who want to avoid relying on said service. That is what this post is all about, no?
Not that this kind of coordination worked well in the 90’s. But even if it did (I was there, it didn’t), it’s incredibly hard to drag people back in time with you.
I know that Lemmy is full of dumb-phone users who exclusively communicate via PGP encrypted carrier pigeon - but that shit simply doesn’t fly if you try to coordinate a children’s birthday party in 2025.
but that shit simply doesn’t fly if you try to coordinate a children’s birthday party in 2025.
My comment might have been sarcastic, but my recognition of that fact was genuine. My point was that just because people have lost the ability doesn’t mean it cannot be regained. Of course, for that to happen, there would have to be a need driving the process. Like, I don’t know, a lack of a convenient Amazon wish list that makes it superfluous for people to even make the attempt.
Oh if it were up to me I’d happily use some combination of email and spreadsheets. But I’m talking about sending this to multiple people (many of whom aren’t particularly tech-savy). As the other user mentioned, having some kind of purchase tracking is very useful. And there are tools nowadays that make such tasks dramatically simpler, so why would you limit yourself to email? Your contemptuous ‘back in my day’ response isn’t particularly helpful in answering my question.
I remind you that email was one of the examples I gave. Another was… Calling each other.
Ok sure, and I do indeed speak to some of these people over the phone. Some of them I tend not to - we’ll meet each other in person every now and then. But how exactly is calling them easier or more convenient? With online lists we can all share individual links in seconds, it’ll keep track of whether an item has been purchased, and it retains some degree of anonymity until you receive the gift. I’m not entirely sure what point you’re trying to make by advocating email/phone.
Best I found with a quick search. Its free and one founder is from the UK.
Also if you need to hide your mailing address, they have a ‘private shipping’ option.
I use Giftster for this. It’s free and you can add items from anywhere even without a link. Also let’s you just take a photo of something and slap it on there.
bullsheet.de might be something.
It is a German website, but it’s free (you can donate if you wish) and you can run it through a website translation service, deepl or whatever to read the explanations. Looks simple enough imo, I just didn’t have a reason to use this particular service myself yet.
It’s nothing you should use for sensitive data or in case you absolutely need something to be saved long term (the website says so itself) however if you just want to make a quick list for potential gifts it should be good enough.
