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Re:New Parents Complain Amazon Baby-Registry Ads Are Deceptive by Wowfunhappy on Saturday December 01, 2018 @09:32PM (#18580423)
I could spin it as well-intentioned. Regardless of whether the list-maker requested the item, you don't want to buy something that's already been purchased by someone else.

I'm not willing to give Amazon that benefit of the doubt, however.

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Re:New Parents Complain Amazon Baby-Registry Ads Are Deceptive by carbocation on Saturday December 01, 2018 @11:26PM (#18580788)
Well intentioned would be to indicate that the product is not requested. Maybe writing 0 of 0 could be acceptable. 0 of 1 is a lie.
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Re:New Parents Complain Amazon Baby-Registry Ads Are Deceptive by creato on Saturday December 01, 2018 @11:10PM (#18580735)
If that was the intention, then there could just be a counter indicating how many had been purchased by others, but it only needs to appear if that is non-zero. That seems like the far more obvious way to do it. I don't know how you get to the "0 of 1" strategy without trying to trick people. The 1 is completely made up.
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