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They removed that in the US site about a year ago. People are still making complaints. But apparently if you call to complain about it you just get a runaround from employees who have no idea what you're talking about, and will tell you it's coming back soon, or it was some update glitch and they're working on it, or that's another (non-existent) department's problem.It's soooo annoying! I loved that filter. Now I have to scroll through the entire thing looking for price drops.
They probably got rid of it because they don't want us waiting for massive price drops to buy anything. Though of course now we just buy less in general, price drop or not.
Michele wrote: "They removed that in the US site about a year ago. People are still making complaints. But apparently if you call to complain about it you just get a runaround from employees who have no idea what ..."Grr. I don’t get the logic behind this change at all. Being able to find items with price drops made me buy more, not less! And 300+ items is a lot to scroll through manually...
I HATE this change so much - it makes the wishlist pretty much unusable.
Not only that, but they've removed virtually all sortable options. Plus, they instituted infinite scrolling, the plague of the modern era, so now I can't even see past the first page of items because the thing keeps resetting. My private shopping list -- which I do buy from periodically and shift things over to my public wishlist during holidays and whatnot -- has become completely useless, because I can't see past the first 25 items.
Since they instituted this, my purchases from Amazon have plummeted. Instead I just go to Target, Barnes & Noble or Best Buy.
Yep, the infinite scrolling thing is also annoying. It's like they sat down and deliberately tried to work out how to make the wishlist function useless and irritating.Anyway, I've now gone through my wishlist and deleted a whole bunch of stuff, and moved most of the rest to a number of different 'shopping lists' for various categories (eg SF, non-fiction) so that each individual list has a manageable number of items on it.
Still annoyed...
There are a couple of third-party websites that can monitor Amazon prices and let you know about reductions.camelcamelcamel (Ridiculous name, I know!) can monitor physical items but doesn't do Kindle books for some reason. However, ereaderiq does a similar job for Kindle books.
Might be worth a look.
I have so many books saved on my kindle wishlist that it's impossible for me to check up on price changes now. It is very much frustrating. I have found some of my kindle wishlist books on sale through daily kindle bookdeal emails like Bookbub.I have found that Amazon still has to show you price changes if you place items in your cart or beneath it in the 'Saved for Later'. I've gotten several of my books on sale that way. And if the price goes up suddenly, back in the save pile til it's gone down again.
Ruth wrote: "...and decide how to spend my Audible credits..."FWIW - My Audible wishlist (US) still allows sorting by price.
I just checked my wishlist and price sort is back! I'm a US customer.
I'm a US customer too, and it's not back on my wishlist. But I'll keep watching, because at the moment that list is basically unusable =( When I could sort, I looked at it every day, and bought SO much more stuff!
You guys should post on Twitter, so Amazon can see the feedback. I did last week when I saw this thread.
Holy Crap! Mine's back too! And I just checked it a week ago.I did just clear out my browsing history/cookies/etc. I wonder if that made a difference?
I haven't found any announcements about this. Maybe there was a dip in sales and Amazon decided to restore price sort.
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Maybe enough people bitched and moaned ;-)
People power does work.
Tassie Dave wrote: "People power does work..."OMG you use PEOPLE to generate power? And I thought Soylent Green was evil...
(sorry, long week, silly mood)
Sure, haven't you seen The Matrix?I mean, you have AIs that have access to nuclear power stations, it totally makes sense to farm people for the tiny amount of electricity they generate.
My sorting came up after I cleared cookies - hooray!
Mark wrote: "I haven't found any announcements about this. Maybe there was a dip in sales and Amazon decided to restore price sort."When you use the sort now, it loads your wishlist on the page, then a spinny circle pops up and says "SORTING n%", so I'd guess the infinite scroll broke the sorting features and they had to rewrite it from scratch.
Well, I celebrated by sorting, finding a deal, and giving Amazon more of my money. ;-)
They did leave out the "filter by price drop" option, which was also very helpful, but I'm not going to complain in case they take away my price sorting again.
I have sent them a complaint as I figured that bitching about the changes on here wasn’t going to achieve very much.Let’s see if it works!
OMG! It's gone again! WTH Amazon! I cleared my history data and cookies and stuff but it's still gone. ARRRGGHH!
You guys got me all excited. I moved my book list over to B&N because I'd rather help actual bookstores than Amazon but B&N doesn't sort by prices either. But I use Amazon for DVDs and such and have really missed the price sort when trying to add on to reach free shipping.
Michele wrote: "OMG! It's gone again! WTH Amazon! I cleared my history data and cookies and stuff but it's still gone. ARRRGGHH!"wow, you're right, it's gone for me as well
bummer
No way! Ugh, I was so happy for a day...
Which Twitter handle should we use to appeal to Amazon? There are many...https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.htm...
plus @AmazonHelp
maybe @amazonwishlist ?
It's back again! They must be working out kinks?
Michele wrote: "It's back again! They must be working out kinks?"They're toying with us!
As of November 27th Amazon UK is letting me sort by price again, but still not letting me filter by items with price drops.Maybe they are toying with us...
Amazon is still advertising on Breitbart, so that solves this issue for me.
Speaking of Amazon and changes; is Amazon/Goodreads now stealth-adding books to my Goodreads To Read list? I have about 4 books on there I know I did not add. Maybe I was sleep-adding? Anyone else getting this?
Hyena wrote: "Speaking of Amazon and changes; is Amazon/Goodreads now stealth-adding books to my Goodreads To Read list? I have about 4 books on there I know I did not add. Maybe I was sleep-adding? Anyone else getting this?I just checked since I had bought a kindle book yesterday, and it did not add it. But, there was a pop up that asked me if I wanted to sign up for this feature. I clicked on it, and it had me sign in to amazon, and asked me if I wanted to authorize this linking. At this point I decided not to, but I may in the future.
So, did you authorize this? Or does someone else that has access to your account possibly authorize this? It said I could turn off this feature from within Amazon if I wanted to, so if you don't like it, you may be able to do that.
However, Amazon.co.uk have abruptly removed both those functions, and also the 'find items' search box, leaving my wishlist essentially completely useless.
Does anyone have any idea why they've done something so stupid and annoying, if they can be persuaded to reinstate the missing functions, and/or does anyone know of any workarounds?