How Does Amazon Wish List Work?

On your Wish List, your address is kept confidential. The only information that appears when someone buys something from you is your name and city.

For several weeks, your present purchases will be kept a secret. The item will remain Unpurchased in your shopping cart. If you attempt to purchase an item that has previously been gifted to you, you will be warned to avoid making duplicate purchases.

When someone buys something from someone else’s desire list, the item is sent to the inventor of the wish list. We’ll go over this in more detail later, but in general, a person will only receive alerts if they’ve set them up to send an alert if item on their list is purchased.

You have two options: you can make specific wish lists private (so no one can view them) or you can make your entire profile private (so others can still access your wish list but not on your profile page).

From your list page, click More > Manage list.
Under Privacy, select Public or Shared. With Public, anyone can search for and find the list; with Shared only the people with the direct link can see it. …
Click Save Changes.

Amazon has added a new function that allows you to send a gift to someone without knowing their address. You select “add a gift receipt” when you’ve found something you want to send on the app. The recipient’s phone number or email address can then be entered.

Amazon Prime members can send a gift anonymously by requesting that Amazon not include the sender’s name and billing information on the gift receipt. Another option is to pay for the gift with an Amazon gift card, which will hide your billing address.

Select Add to Cart on the product detail page.
Check that “This order” contains a gift box.
Select Proceed to Checkout.
Select a shipping address add a new one, or allow the recipient to provide their shipping address.
Select Add gift options.
Select Save Gift Options.