Is there a way to send my Amazon cart link to someone?

Question

I have been using Amazon for literally over a decade, Prime member since like 2012, so I usually know my way around the UI pretty well but I am actually stumped right now and it is driving me crazy. I am helping my brother set up his first apartment in Seattle and we have a strict $800 budget for all the kitchen stuff and some basic tools. I spent three hours today picking out the perfect ergonomic chair, a specific monitor arm that fits his weird desk depth, and some cable management stuff.

My logic was that I could just click a share button like you do on a Wish List or a registry, but the cart page seems totally locked to my session. I even tried looking for some kind of collaborative cart feature because I swear I saw that mentioned in a tech blog last year, but maybe that was only for Business accounts? I am just on a personal Prime account. I tried the obvious thing of just copying the URL directly from the address bar—total rookie move, I know—and obviously when I texted it to him it just showed him his own empty cart because of cookies and session data.

The issue is I need to get this order in within the next hour to hit the shipping cut-off for Friday delivery. If I have to go through and manually add every single one of these 22 items to a separate List and then share that, it is gonna take forever and I might miss the window. Plus, the Lists feature is kind of buggy with specific

Used

Like New - options I picked out to keep us under that $800 limit. It usually just reverts to the new item price in the list view.

Is there a hidden

Email this cart - button or maybe a Chrome extension that actually works for this? I really dont want to have to give him my login info just so he can see what I picked. There has to be a way to just generate a link to the current active cart, right?

Cypegymoume · Accepted Answer

Unfortunately, Amazon is still stuck in the stone ages with this. I had issues trying a similar thing for my moms kitchen remodel and it was honestly a nightmare.

Avoid those sketchy Chrome extensions; they usually just scrape your data and fail anyway.

You really just have to use a Wish List, even though it ruins the used pricing you found. Its super frustrating.

Dread_imEt · Answer

Building on the earlier suggestion, I actually have to disagree about the extensions being a total waste. While some are definitely sketchy, tools like Share-A-Cart are basically the standard for this. It works by generating a unique code for the ASINs so the other person can import the whole list at once. It saves a ton of time when you are chasing that shipping deadline. If you want to stay away from third-party tools, try using the Move all to list button at the bottom of the cart. Even with the Used

Like New pricing issues, if the recipient adds to cart directly from a public list, the warehouse deal price usually carries over. It is a decent workaround for staying under that 800 budget without giving out your login info. Just double check the seller hasnt changed before he hits buy.

Lazernoe_pzMi · Answer

Regarding what #3 said about "Saving this thread" - honestly, you might be waiting a while for a real fix because Amazon is notoriously behind on this. I stumbled upon this while looking for a similar workaround and it is just disappointing how locked down their ecosystem stays. I think I read on a dev blog a few months back that they were supposedly testing a collaborative cart feature for Prime users, but I am not 100% sure if that ever made it out of beta or if it was just restricted to Business accounts. IIRC, some people had luck with custom scripts, but those are so unreliable when it comes to keeping the exact "Used

Like New" sellers you picked out. Usually they just grab the main ASIN and you lose the specific price or vendor you spent hours finding. It is honestly a mess for anyone trying to stay on a strict budget. Quick question tho, are you doing this on a mobile browser or a desktop? I have noticed the session tokens and cookie handling behave a bit differently depending on the platform, and I am curious if that is why the standard share methods are failing so hard for you. Just want to make sure I am not missing a simple platform-specific quirk before giving up on the idea.