How to Hide Your Address on Amazon Wishlist (Your Complete Guide)
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The only thing better than taking yourself off an Amazon wish list is having someone else treat you, but the idea of someone else having your address isn’t always the best.
So how do you protect yourself? If you’re wondering how to hide your address on your Amazon wishlist, I’ve got your back. Read on below to find out what you need!
How to Hide Your Amazon Wish List Address in 2022
By default, Amazon takes its customers’ privacy very seriously and will no longer provide people’s addresses through its wishlist starting in 2022. Customers can limit who has access to the wish list, and at checkout, buyers can also only see the recipient’s city and state as their name, which can be changed to anything.
Let’s take a deep dive into how Amazon hides wishlist addresses from buyers, how to change the name attached to a wishlist, and even how to send or receive items from Amazon without a wishlist. continue reading!
How does hiding an address on Amazon wishlist work?
Amazon may collect enough data to know yourself better than you do, but that doesn’t mean the company is sharing your sensitive data with other customers.
Personal information like your full address is never revealed to other customers.
what buyers see
If you’ve set up and made a wish list public, you’ll hardly have to worry about someone buying from that list for you and seeing exactly where you live.
Here’s why: Amazon does let you set a destination address associated with your wishlist, but at checkout, buyers will only see your name, city, and state.
This is the most specific, you can actually choose the name that your wishlist viewers see/
Who can access your wishlist
You can also choose who can access your wishlist in a few different ways.
For starters, you can make your wishlist private and share it with only certain people.
But maybe you want anyone with the link to be able to view the list.
If you press the “Invite” button at the top of your wishlist, you’ll see two options: View Only and View and Edit.
View and Edit can only be used with people you know personally, such as a spouse, roommate, or family member; it’s essentially a “share” wish list.
For anyone else, you just want to provide a “view only” link. People can then see your listing and add items to their cart to make a purchase, but still can’t see your exact address.
Third-party seller vulnerability
However, there is a loophole where customers may see your full name and address.
That is, if they buy through a third-party seller on Amazon.
Of course, sellers see your full address so they know where to ship the item.
However, buyers may also see it if the seller includes it in the confirmation email.
If you want to avoid this, go into your wishlist and press the three dots in the upper right corner (on the web version, it also says “more”).
Press Manage Lists.
Here you have privacy settings and other features. Scroll down to where you will see a box and the words “Third Party Shipping Agreement”.
If you do not want third-party sellers to potentially provide buyers with your personal information, make sure the box is left unchecked.
Does Amazon Wish List Show Your Name?
The Amazon Wish List does show your name, and if your name is set to your full name, that’s what buyers will see.
However, it is very easy to change.
On the Wishlist home page, press the three dots in the upper right corner (on a web browser, it will also say “More”).
Press “Manage List” and you’ll be taken to a screen where you can scroll down to information such as who and who the list is.
Also, recipient is where you can change your name to whatever you want your audience to see.
Rest assured, people who link to your wishlist via “view only” will not see anything else.
And changing your name there won’t affect your actual contact information associated with your Amazon account. It’s just the “public face” of your wishlist.
How do you remove yourself from your Amazon wishlist?
If you are added to an Amazon Wishlist and you no longer want to be part of it, you can easily delete yourself.
Find the wish list you no longer want to be associated with and press the three dots in the upper right corner of the screen.
A menu will appear and you can select “Delete List”. This will actually remove you from the list.
However, if you are the list owner, you must delete the wishlist to delete yourself. Unfortunately, you cannot give ownership of the list to someone else.
How can I send a gift without an address?
Have you received an item from someone but it’s not on your wish list?
That’s because of Amazon’s gift-giving feature, which is launching in fall 2021.
At checkout, the gift giver presses the “This is a gift” box.
When they move to the next page, they still choose their shipping address, but then they use the select gift option feature.
They can include a message in it and say who the gift is from. This is also where they will need your email address.
Then they complete the checkout as usual and you get an email saying that so-and-so has given you some gifts.
You’ll then be prompted for your address, but don’t worry – the sender will never see it.
Therefore, you will receive a gift and your personal information will remain safe and private.
To learn more, you can also read our posts on how Amazon Wish Lists work, how to share an Amazon shopping cart, and how Amazon gift cards work.
in conclusion
Amazon takes its customers’ privacy very seriously, so even someone who is kindly gifting an item from someone’s wishlist can’t see their full address.
The only information the sender will see is the name provided by the wishlist owner themselves, as well as their city and state. Wishlist owners don’t have to do anything to protect their address.
