Jul 27 2007

The Best Wishlist Site Of The Web - Reviews On Wish List Web Applications

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Posted by: Brian in commerce

I was browsing through my Amazon.com wishlist the other day. It’s probably the only site I’ve ever used the wishlist function on. It’s cool and useful, but it leaves me wanting more. Even though there is an enormous number of products on Amazon, gift I still find myself having to bookmark / create shortcuts to, or even write down on paper (ahhh!) some of the products I want. I’d love to have one place that I could keep a list of all the products I’m keeping my eye on, along with a link on where to buy them. I’d also like the ability to do other things, besides just adding a product to a list (see below). So I began researching wishlist sites…

I came across various blogs referencing one or another, and I’ve compiled a list from those. I plan on trying each of these out, and then blog on my evaluation of each site. If you’d like to be part of this wishlist site survey, don’t hesitate to chime in with your pros and cons for the sites! Here’s a list of the sites I’ve found (if you know of others, please let me know in the comments):

  1. Kaboodle
  2. This Next
  3. Things I Want
  4. Wish Pot
  5. Gift Tagging
  6. Wish Listr
  7. Gift That
  8. List Ideas
  9. Meta Wishlist
  10. Wish Roll
  11. Wish Radar
  12. Wishlist Complete
  13. Hint Dropper

Features I’d Like

  • different types of lists (gift list, shopping list, grocery list, etc)
  • private and public lists, as well as lists shared only with specific individuals
  • add items from local stores as well as online stores, or even items you’re looking for that you haven’t found at any store yet
  • tag items with labels / metadata (categories, subcategories, special instructions, notes, etc)
  • printable version(s) of wishlists (for local shopping, or to give to someone)
  • integration with multiple other sites (facebook, myspace, etc)(provide an rss feed of my wishlist items)
  • gift calendar with reminders (for birthdays, anniversarys, holidays, etc)
  • pull current prices for the items (from multiple stores, like pricegrabber does)
  • import from other wishlists (amazon)
  • export wishlist to a spreadsheet (e.g. excel)

Taking Amazon as the base model, and looking for these features, I’ll soon write about the pros and cons of the sites I look at. I’m looking forward to my shopping life becoming much more easier… hopefully one of these sites can provide me that. Till then, it’s Amazon, paper, and shortcuts.

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4 Responses to “The Best Wishlist Site Of The Web - Reviews On Wish List Web Applications”

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    Posted: Aug 7th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
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    All To The Good » Blog Archive The Best Wishlist Site Of The Web #1: Kaboodle »

    […] all the social / shopping stuff), I was surprised to find that the wishlist itself had most of the features I was looking for. You can create multiple different types of lists along with privacy settings for […]
  2. AvatarLuke
    Posted: Apr 14th, 2008 at 7:31 am
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    Hi Brian, just to say that our new wishlisting website aimed at the UK market is really trying to present it’s members with all the features they desire. We are using your list as a template and hope to have soon implemented the points you have posted. If you could have a look at the site at http://www.nomorenotebooks.com we would really like to hear about any new features you feel a wishlisting site requires.
  3. AvatarDarren
    Posted: May 1st, 2008 at 10:36 am
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    Hooray, at last I’ve found someone else who acknowledges the existence of such sites, even though they’ve probably been around for years! It’s always nice if you can benefit from someone else’s hard work but that aside, I’ve often been slow on the up-take when it comes to the latest and greatest websites. For example I’ve only been using social bookmarking sites for about a year and took great pains to find exactly what I was looking for, only to discover that the site is pretty much dead (I’m using Spurl, which has all the features I want but no longer seems to be developed).

    So now I find myself in the same boat with Wish-listing… the Amazon wish list just isn’t cutting it anymore (I want things Amazon doesn’t sell). However, despite some long hard looking, I haven’t really found anywhere that does a side-by-side comparison. They all look like they offer much the same features, but I know that if I choose unwisely, I’ll end up with a site that doesn’t have quite what I want. Now you might say, well who cares, sign up for them all and see what works best. That’s true, but it takes time, time that I don’t really have AND I don’t want to invest a lot of time in something that I’m going to ditch anyway.

    Now that I’ve found this blog I’d be interested to see if there are a further posts on Wish lists and be happy to share any experiences or discoveries that I make. As a small footnote, a few sites that seems to missing from the above list are:
    wishlisting.com
    boxedup.com
    wists.com
  4. AvatarAlexander
    Posted: Feb 5th, 2010 at 5:00 am
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    Hi Brian, I advise you to try a new wish list side http://www.89wishes.com/ . You can add pictures to a wish easily by auto image search. You can also see what other people want. Any wish can be added, not only from a store.
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