Show HN: Get a list of your Amazon purchases and see what you can sell them for
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Re: Show HN: Get a list of your Amazon purchases and see what you can sell them for
#2Awesome business model and setup.
Re: Show HN: Get a list of your Amazon purchases and see what you can sell them for
#3Looks nice, but it just feels a bit weird to enter your amazon password with linked credit cards and bank accounts on another site. I'm aware that there's probably no better way of accessing that purchase history data but it's just something people are preaching for years shouldn't be done.
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#4This seems like a cool idea, but I don't feel comfortable giving out my Amazon credentials with no guarantee of how they are used.
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#5Looks nice, but it just feels a bit weird to enter your amazon password with linked credit cards and bank accounts on another site. I'm aware that there's probably no better way of accessing that purchase history data but it's just something people are preaching for years shouldn't be done.
Agreed. However, even with your credentials, we wouldn't be able to access your credit card number (Amazon hides it). Additionally, if we would want to order anything in your name, but our address, we would have to reconfirm the credit card number, which we don't have.
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#6This seems like a cool idea, but I don't feel comfortable giving out my Amazon credentials with no guarantee of how they are used.
Is there anything we could do to make you (and many more with the same sentiment) more comfortable? We are thinking of writing a blog post of what happens in the background would that help? Any other ideas?
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#7This seems like a cool idea, but I don't feel comfortable giving out my Amazon credentials with no guarantee of how they are used.
Is there anything we could do to make you (and many more with the same sentiment) more comfortable? We are thinking of writing a blog post of what happens in the background would that help? Any other ideas?
A giant "Why we are asking for this" would be a great start
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#8Maybe get the purchase history another way? Use the new Gmail API to search for the Amazon emails. Could easily extend to other stores as well.
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#9This seems like a cool idea, but I don't feel comfortable giving out my Amazon credentials with no guarantee of how they are used.
Is there anything we could do to make you (and many more with the same sentiment) more comfortable? We are thinking of writing a blog post of what happens in the background would that help? Any other ideas?
Just an off-the-top-of-my-head idea: Could you give people a bookmarklet or an extension that they can run when they are on their order history page that exports all the Amazon product IDs?
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#10This seems like a cool idea, but I don't feel comfortable giving out my Amazon credentials with no guarantee of how they are used.
Agreed. My understanding is that having your password does not necessarily allow someone to see your CC number or order things on your behalf through Amazon, but it definitely does not seem like a best practice to go around handing out one's Amazon password. This sort of thing sounds like a good argument, though, for Amazon's implementing the sort of fine-grained permissions (in conjunction with a federated authentication system like oauth) one finds on twitter, FB, Google, and other services with a well-developed API and ecosystem. I would happily authorize a site like this to view my order history, even if I would not be willing to provide my password.