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Heh, careful with that "we" - don't leave out those of us who are in the target demographic of both Hacker News and Pinterest. :)

I have less purchasing intent while browsing Pinterest than I do while looking at Yelp or Amazon (or Etsy), but I spend more time on Pinterest than on shopping sites. I've bought several things I had originally pinned just because they were interesting and then later realized would make a good gift for somebody.

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Did you end up going back to Pinterest to find them or did you just have it in your head after pinning it? The entire attribution of a pin to a purchase in a store is tough if there's no obvious path from Pinterest to the retailer.

I usually go back to Pinterest to find the specific thing, and sometimes I'm directly browsing through my pins while trying to think of a gift. But it's a leaky system of course; for example, sometimes I've pinned a Flickr photo of the thing instead of an image linked to a website that sells the thing.

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