The biggest feature that I am currently wishing for is the ability to organize my wish list into different subcategories.
Personally, I have “must have” items, “nice to have” items, “maybe” items, “thinking about it” items, “unlikely, but you never know” items – and I could go on… My problem now is that it can become quite cluttered. Also, I’m hesitant to send someone my wishlist because it has a lot of “maybe” or “thinking about it” items.
In the pre-premium days, I just had different accounts for each wish list, but that’s not feasible now.
My preferences would be to support different lists, just like in collections – in the Showcase view, your wish list would behave just like your collection where you would see your custom lists in the row below. In Management view, there would be a new column for lists and you could filter, etc.
Another complimentary idea would be to give a numerical score to items in your wish list (like a number out of 100) so you could sort the items and indicate their priority.
I like this idea. I would only change the numerical score to a simple 3 or 5(at most) choice scale – something like “Interested / Piqued / Drool-worthy”.
Just knowing that adding lists to wishlists is on the horizon makes me very happy – 5 is probably enough gradation for this … and I think it’s common for other online wishlists to have ~5 levels – I was just thinking that pragmatically, it’s probably the same amount of work to code 5 or 100.
I will say this – I currently have “Something on your Wish List has just come up for sale on the Market” unchecked – but if you had an option for – “something on my wish list that’s a priority >=4 has just come up for sale”… that I’d probably turn on.
Another proposal related to Wish Lists…: I often have items on my wish list, which I have ordered or pre-ordered, so theoretically I should remove them from my Wish List to avoid that I order them again by mistake. At the same time I don’t want to already add them to My Collection, because I don’t actually have them in my collection yet… And it does happen from time to time that (pre-) ordered items end up being sold out and my (pre-)order gets cancelled by the store… and then it easily happens that I overlook removing that item from My Collection (and add it back to my Wish List).
I am missing something in between Wish List and My Collection. My thinking was, that it could be a sub-list of the Wish List. I don’t want to “abuse” My Collection and add items which I don’t actually have…
We got a solution for Ordered. We called it In Transfer. You can leave Private before it arrives so it does not show in the Showcase. Then when it arrives you mark it Public and move it into another list.