Amazon-- revisited

[John Goodin]

Google “amazon set up surprise spoiler settings.” That should show an amazon web page with instructions. You can also go through and delete items from the search history but be sure to leave the references to all the cool tools you want for Christmas.

[Kev Williams]

Thanks John, but that was a no-go. According to my lists everything seemingly pertinent is already 'private', and the 'don't spoil my surprises' box IS checked.
And while looking around, guess what I run into? Something the wife got me.

So I DID just find where to have them NOT save my browsing history, and was able to remove all previous history, BUT, only on THIS computer, I'll have to do this to the wife's phone too...

Now if I can just find how to keep purchase history, shipping details and ad's from showing up when logging on, and to NOT have all that info E-mailed to us...

edit-- just found out how to ARCHIVE orders, so they'll only come up on amazon when specifically searched-- but will that keep them from being emailed? Probably not, as the archiving can only happen after the sale, and by then the emails have gone out...

[Jim Becker]

We share prime and have independent accounts. Professor Dr. SWMBO doesn't see my activities and I don't see her's. And I get the 5% rebate on my personal Amazon credit card the same as she gets the 5% rebate on her personal Amazon credit card. Prime Household is how it's done.

[Tom Stenzel]

I have the same problem with Amazon. My solution is to buy things using my brother's account. It has the added advantage that the gifts go to his house and stay out of the wife's sight. Because of issues beyond his and my control I haven't been able to do that this year.

I bought something online for my wife and purposely avoided Amazon so the wife wouldn't know. And as you could have guessed with the transaction being out of town the credit card company sent a fraud alert email.

To my wife.



-Tom

[Anuj Prateek]

I've brought this up before: How can I shop for Xmas presents for the wife- or vice versa, when Amazon texts and emails endless 'got your order!', 'it's shipped!' info, tracking info, requests for reviews, and advertisements for similar items, to BOTH OF US? How do I fix this? Admittedly, I must be stupid because searching everywhere I can think of in the back pages of Amazon hell, all I can find is how to make this problem WORSE instead of better!

Is there ANY way to set up our separate-but-sharing-Prime accounts so that when we buy something, that NO EMAILS or TEXTS regarding the sale are sent EVER? --Without paying for 2 separate Prime accounts? I AM smart enough to know how to access any needed info directly from Amazon's site...

And while we're at it, this ridiculous 'policy'? of my wife's phone and the websites I visit immediately getting bombarded with advertisements after simply BROWSING Amazon? We can't even LOOK at stuff without the other one knowing what we were looking at!?

Right now there's a thing I want to buy the wife for Xmas, Amazon has it for $49, the cheapest anywhere else is $66. The only reason I know this is by accessing Amazon using an anonymous browser- but I can't buy from an anonymous browser. Well, I can, but as soon as I log in, the wife's phone will get an advertisement for it...
.....

I'm pretty sure there's a way to fix this, but I can't find it....

Me and my wife use our own account and share the prime membership. We don't get cross notifications and advertisements. Call customer care or ask them to call you, and they can help you setup separate account on same prime membership.

Another thing: While browsing (not app) see if you can turn off tracking cookies. FB, Google, and many more do so for advertisements. Google "
block tracking cookies chrome" and similarly for Firefox to get to find a tutorial.

[Jim Becker]

Consistent with my previous comment and Anuz's comment...having your shared Prime membership setup correctly "fixes" the problem. If you can't find the right buttons to push on the site (it's sometimes pretty obtuse), get ahold of customer service for assistance with this. There's a call back system that actually allows you to speak with a real human being for dealing with issues.

[Al Launier]

Would setting up a different, i.e. secret email account for yourself, purchase using that email address, while setting up the family account as the default email account work? Just a thought, haven't tried it. If that works, you could then have them contact you through your secret email address which only you could use, unless your wife discovers it.

[Jim Becker]

Prime only allows each individual to have a single email address, Al. But if the Prime household is setup correctly, each individual's purchasing shouldn't be visible to the other individual unless they share the same credit card that gets used and even then, it would be just an amount with no transaction details. Multiple payment options are permitted which gets around that.

[Kev Williams]

Well, I've done everything I can to shield each other from what the other is doing, and to give Amazon credit, using their search to ask how to do this works pretty good! However, even after figuring out archiving sales, and turning off all browsing history, and everything seeming to work well lately, I just logged onto Amazon, and amongst all the other stuff on the page is this:



This is something the wife looked at, wouldn't be for me, probably for one of the neighbors or kids, but if it WAS for me, SURPRISE! -- NOT!

Seems I'm doomed to creating 2 specific accounts...

[Anuj Prateek]

Well, I've done everything I can to shield each other from what the other is doing, and to give Amazon credit, using their search to ask how to do this works pretty good! However, even after figuring out archiving sales, and turning off all browsing history, and everything seeming to work well lately, I just logged onto Amazon, and amongst all the other stuff on the page is this:



This is something the wife looked at, wouldn't be for me, probably for one of the neighbors or kids, but if it WAS for me, SURPRISE! -- NOT!

Seems I'm doomed to creating 2 specific accounts...

(Missed reading thr last line when I previously posted)

If you are using same account (username and password) then this is expected. There is no way for Amazon to know if it's you or wife.

You will need to create a separate account with shared prime membership.