{"id":29103,"date":"2020-06-01T16:13:12","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T20:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=29103"},"modified":"2020-06-09T15:25:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T19:25:30","slug":"unhelpful-amazon-order-confirmation-e-mails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/01\/unhelpful-amazon-order-confirmation-e-mails\/","title":{"rendered":"Unhelpful Amazon Order Confirmation E-mails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ptr\/status\/1266068558716362752\">Paul Rosania<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ptr\/status\/1266068558716362752\"><p>Amazon order confirmations and shipment notifications no longer include any item details. I could not for the life of me figure out why they would do this. They&rsquo;re not scored on MAUs, they don&rsquo;t need me to click through. Then I realized: is it so Google can&rsquo;t see my order data?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve been wondering about this for a while. It&rsquo;s really annoying not to be able to search one&rsquo;s own order history. I end up printing each order confirmation Web page to PDF.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andrewchen\/status\/1266168430308192257\">Andrew Chen<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andrewchen\/status\/1266168430308192257\"><p>my guess- it&rsquo;s not for google, but bc there&rsquo;s email analytics cos that estimate sales of individual products based on parsing emails<\/p><p>At Uber, we used parsed competitor receipt data to estimate for instance, airport mkt share %, short trips mkt share etc<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/18\/edison-mail-bug-allows-access-to-other-users-data\/\">Edison Mail Bug Allows Access to Other Users&rsquo; Data<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/14\/companies-that-scrape-your-e-mail\/\">Companies that Scrape Your E-mail<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/03\/the-app-developers-sifting-through-your-gmail\/\">The App Developers Sifting Through Your Gmail<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"unhelpful-amazon-order-confirmation-e-mails-update-2020-06-02\">Update (2020-06-02): <a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2020\/06\/01\/product-info-in-amazon-emails\">John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2020\/06\/01\/product-info-in-amazon-emails\">\n<p>One reason this change was merely a low-grade annoyance for me, personally, is that I allow the Amazon iPhone app to send me notifications, and these notifications include shipping updates and delivery confirmation. [&#8230;] And Amazon&rsquo;s website and app continue to have a nicely searchable archive of your entire order history&#x2009;&mdash;&#x2009;mine goes back to the Clinton administration, which feels like another epoch. But it was nice having your own searchable archive of purchased items right in your email.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sbswift\/status\/1267854229147750400\">Stephen Swift<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sbswift\/status\/1267854229147750400\">\n<p>You can also <a href=\"https:\/\/amazon.com\/gp\/b2b\/reports\">export<\/a> your Amazon order history as CSV.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"unhelpful-amazon-order-confirmation-e-mails-update-2020-06-09\">Update (2020-06-09): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dafacto\/status\/1270038154649767939\">Matt Henderson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dafacto\/status\/1270038154649767939\"><p>This is annoying for me, because I always create an OmniFocus &ldquo;Waiting for&#8230;&rdquo; task attached to the Amazon confirmation emails. Now that the emails don&rsquo;t include the order details, I can&rsquo;t do that any longer. So annoying.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Rosania: Amazon order confirmations and shipment notifications no longer include any item details. I could not for the life of me figure out why they would do this. They&rsquo;re not scored on MAUs, they don&rsquo;t need me to click through. Then I realized: is it so Google can&rsquo;t see my order data? 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