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Check out http://www.amazon.com/gp/history/ and https://www.amazon.com/gp/yourstore/iyr where you can delete stuff that Amazon knows; this may fix recommendation problems.

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Thanks for both of those links -- and for scaring the crap out of me when I clicked the second one and got to the bottom of the page.

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Five hundred and thirty-four purchases. Like having a cattle prod jammed into the back of my head.

Note, also, that Amazon has a checkbox along the lines of "this is a gift" in the purchasing workflow. I think this keeps the item out of your history.

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