Is there a tool or a reliable browser extension that lets me send my entire Amazon cart to another PC or even a different person without having to share my login info? I have been using Amazon for basically forever and I usually just deal with the hassle of re-adding things, but I have run into a super specific problem today. I am currently spec-ing out a new home lab setup from my office computer during my break and I have got about 42 separate items in my cart—everything from specific rack-mount screws to some high-end networking gear and some specific SATA cables I found on sale.
I have a budget of about $2,800 for this whole project and I need to get the order in by Thursday so the parts arrive before I head out of town to Denver for a conference. The issue is that my work laptop is locked down tighter than a drum and I absolutely cannot log into my personal Amazon account on it because of the corporate security policy regarding tracking. I tried just making a public wishlist and sharing it that way, but it totally messed up the quantities and it did not save the specific third-party sellers I had picked out for some of the refurbished gear.
I was looking at some extensions like Share-A-Cart or Cart-Link but I am always a little paranoid about browser extensions that can read page data, especially on a machine that has some of my work stuff on it. Has anyone here actually used those and are they legit? I am looking for something that just spits out a code or a URL that I can open on my home desktop to auto-populate the cart with the exact same items and quantities I picked out.
It feels like such a basic thing that should be built in by now but I guess they really just want you staying logged in everywhere. If there is a script or a trusted way to do this that doesn't involve me manually searching for every single SKU again that would save my sanity...
Building a home lab is fantastic! I love getting those 42 items spec'd exactly right. The wishlist method fails because it lacks the session-specific metadata and merchant IDs for those refurbished parts. You need a tool that scrapes the cart DOM and generates a transferrable manifest!
I ran into this mess with my current setup's hardware. You might want to consider Cart To Link, but be careful and make sure to check permissions first.
Quick reply while i am between meetings. ^ This. Also, i just went through this exact headache for my rack build last month. If you are spec-ing out 42 items, you definitely need a tool that handles the specific merchant IDs or you will end up with the wrong sellers. Here is what i have used:
Interested in this too