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Amazon Wishlists

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

In this, the second of our ‘How-to’ posts (see the first), we’ll explain how to create a short URL for your amazon wishlist

If you have an Amazon wishlist on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.de you can quickly and easily create a TinyAddress so that you can easily share it with your friends on say twitter or facebook.

Similarly as with product links, there’s often no need to even visit our site to create the link. Just put your wishlist ID on the end of the URL.
http://eB.Am/yourwishlistid

If you only have one wishlist, or wish to share your main one then you can use the following format to find the ID:
http://eB.Am/?your@emailaddress

Otherwise, if you go to your wishlist page on amazon page you can find the code in the address bar:

In that example, your shorturl would be:
http://eb.am/25Y5HUGVEZNSU

Don’t want to faff about with copying and pasting bits of URLs?
Just put eb.am in front of the url in the address bar and we’ll parse it for you:
eb.am/https://www.amazon.co.uk/registry/wishlist/25Y5HUGVEZNSU/ref=cm_reg_rd-upd?_encoding=UTF8&msgid=updated

Due to the way that amazon works in different countries then you may experience issues if you are viewing/looking for a list which isn’t from the area you are located.
If there are problems then please comment below.

We hope you get what you wish for!

EB.AM Shortening 101

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

If you’re looking to share something you’ve found or are selling on eBay or Amazon, creating a short link with eB.Am couldn’t be simpler – you don’t even need to visit the site!

Simply take your eBay item number, ISBN-10 or Amazon ASIN (found in the product information) and bung it on the end of the URL.

Here’s an example:
Look at the product details at:
http://www.amazon.com/Wii-Nintendo/dp/B0009VXBAQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1266778516&sr=8-1

Take the ASIN and add to eB.Am and hey presto, there’s your tiny url:

eB.Am/B0009VXBAQ

Now sometimes using our special algorithms we can get this to be even shorter – this can be done with no hassle of copying and pasting.
You just put http://eB.Am/ in front of the item url and go – your link will be created automatically.
Using the same example from the link above we get:
http://eB.Am/http://www.amazon.com/Wii-Nintendo/dp/B0009VXBAQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1266778516&sr=8-1

That works with Amazon links of every country and eBay links too

If you have any problems, questions or suggestions about this then feel free to comment below.