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I think that's because they don't want email providers, Gmail in particular, scraping for purchase history


That should be up to the recipient. Every other vendor provides this essential information in order confirmations.

Amazon's refusal to do so means you can't search your E-mail history for purchases (at tax time, for example). Or for warranty info or service. You may not know where you bought a particular item. Or which Amazon account you might have used.

If everyone followed Amazon's anti-customer example, you'd have to log into every E-commerce site you ever bought something from and search your order history... year by year... to find something. Unacceptable BS.




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