Some days Amazon just drives me batty. Part of it may be the fact that I have 3 distinct accounts on Amazon, all with the exact same login, but which one I get depends on on what password I use when I log in. One of these accounts gives me the discount for using A9, the rest don’t. Depending on which one I logged into last, my A9 search history is hosed. The wishlists are in various states of upkeep, and all different. It’s confusing and frustrating and really turns me off from Amazon. I wish I could just delete all those accounts and start fresh. (If they let me export my wishlist first.)
I know, I’ve got the same problem. Why the hell does Amazon allow this? Why haven’t they made the e-mail address a unique thing? Crazy!
If you use Firefox, check this out: http://www.watchcow.net/build.php – it turns your amazon wish list into an xml feed to which you could subscribe – perhaps you could use this export/import your wish list.
or something.
I used to work for an online retailer that had the same “feature”. It was due to the early-web thinking that family members may share a dial up account and all use a single email address, but still want seperate shopping carts and order histories.
Well you can imagine what us non-USians have to deal with then, eh? I have Amazon.com AND Amazon.ca issues to deal with now. 😐
You can also sign up with an Amazon web developer and pull your wish list via php, perl or python. Of course, watchcow might be the easiest method.
I used to have the exact same problem with Amazon UK, I had 3 logins as well and it drove me insane! I contacted Amazon through their email form and explained my problem and how the three logins were severly disrupting my customer experience, and I asked if there was anything they could do. I got a reply back within the hour, they merged the wishlists of the three accounts and then deleted the two logins (passwords) that I didn’t want to keep. So now I’m all happy with just one login again. If Amazon UK can do this for me, surely Amazon US can do something similar for you? 🙂 Good luck with it!
That is so strange, right before I came to visit your site, I ordered something on Amazon.com. I got annoyed because I had made a list of items to “order later”, and they weren’t there. I realized that I had two accounts and THAT was what Mom was complaining about when she said that there were too many items on my wish list; there were two of them. To boot, my home one defaulted to my work address, and my work one defaults to my home address….very frustrating!!!
And if this isn’t the biggest part of the coincidence, I emailed customer support to combine my accounts. Now, I doubt that I’ll hear back from them in an hour, as it’s Sunday evening, but I’m happy to hear that Sasha had a happy ending to her story, and I’m optimistic about a happy ending to mine. You and I must have been on the same wavelength or something, sweetheart; only it took a day to travel to TX from you. Love, C
Yep. Call their phone support and tell them to fix ya up. Stupid, stupid “feature”.
might try metawishlist.com