This product looks cool, but I'm not seeing past the privacy issues right now.
Also, you can set up a secondary account and auto-forward emails relatively quickly to a forwarding address linked to Paribus. On Gmail:
1- Go to filters and start creating a new filter: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#settings/filters 2- In the from field, type: amazon.com OR bestbuy.com OR staples.com OR macys.com etc. with all the retailers for which you want to track receipts 3- Click "create a filter with this search" 4- Click "Forward it to" and add your forwarding address.
You should be all set after that (although you will have to change your filter if you want to add the new retailers as we add more)
Hope this helps. We'll add to the FAQ :)
Oh, this is interesting, and should get around most of the privacy concerns. One question: how do you get the money back from the retailer? I had assumed that Paribus sent an email from the account, but that won't actually work if my email is zck@example.com and I give you access to zck-shopping@example.com. If you email Amazon from zck-shopping@example.com, would they refund zck@example.com? Or do you send me an email saying something like "Amazon dropped prices on $PRODUCT_X, contact them here<link> to get a refund"?
My email is zkanfer@gmail.com.