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| Amazon's Wishlists for Gift Ideas |
Submitted by:
anonymous 05/03/2009 9:07 AM
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Amazon.com allows you to post personalized wish lists of items you would like to receive as gifts, and to also specify if items are of low, medium and high priority.
This has been enormously helpful for me to track my children's wants... especially those who now have their own apartments or who are off to college. They primarily post their wishes for books and DVDs. They regularly add new wished-for items and remove items as they have been purchased. Often it is not enough to know the name of a DVD or book, but also the specific version they wish to have. I could not keep track of this without the Amazon list, as each list might have scores of items.
I like to review their lists from time to time and keep a look-out for these books and movies when I'm doing any secondhand shopping... yard sales, pawn shops and fleamarkets. Because the Amazon list includes photographs, it's easier to spot items as I do my speed-scan though piles of merchandise. I have often found like-new items for a dollar or two.
In the months prior to Christmas or a birthday, I step this up. I actually print out their lists to take with me shopping.
I also look on ebay for the items on this list. If I give myself a few months to do this shopping, and am patient, I can get items very cheaply. I find, for example, that movies that were highly popular about five years ago, are now cheap and plentiful on ebay. Including shipping, I've gotten some like-new DVDs for under $4. I just keep bidding extremely low on ones listed in excellent condition, until I finally get one. So if there are 10 DVDs on this list, I look the few I can in the $3 to $5 range. I let my child wait on the rest, as the price will come down in a few years.
Sometimes a wished-for book or DVD is rare enough that it never gets cheap.... that there is only a slight difference between the used ebay price and the new Amazon price. After a certain "high priority" nature DVD set had been on my daughter's wish list for three years, I knew I would never get it cheaply, and so I ordered it from Amazon, which offered the best price. It was expensive, and blew a big hole in my daughter's birthday budget, but she was very happy. |
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