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On a related note, I find myself frequently adding something to my cart with the intention to possibly buy it later on. Why don't I use Amazon's wishlist for this? I can and do, but I find that because Amazon's cart is so reliable, sticky and frankly .. good, I can effectively use it as a wishlist.

Other sites you have no idea if something you added to your cart will be there later, but with Amazon it's almost a guarantee.

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Personally, I'd rather add it to my Wishlist than to my cart. If you're publicly telling people that you're adding an item because you like it, then it would be better to add it to the Wishlist, in the hopes that one of your followers might buy it for you.

I do this as well, because the cart has the property of notifying me of price changes of items saved in the cart. I'm actually not sure if wish lists do this as well, but as I am in the cart so often (shopping online as much as I do), it's easy for me to keep an eye on items that I might be hesitant about pulling the trigger on.

Wish lists do track pricing, a feature which I wish I used more. In fact I wish I could add everything I "view" on Amazon to a list like this. I find that most consumers (including myself) don't realize how much prices fluctuate and it's really a killer savings tool if you don't have to have the product now.

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