Lahjalistanet wishlist review. See the original blog post at [https://wishsimply.com/blog/wishlist-service-review-for-lahjalistanet] and follow to read the comparison summary table at [https://wishsimply.com/compare-wishlist-services].

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WishSimply - 2018.10.02 at 20:00:08
The third wishlist service that we will include in our
wishlist comparison table is the wish list service
named Lahjalista.net. It is a dedicated wish list
service that has been around since 2006 and was last
updated 2 years ago. Let's see what they have.
Starting the review with security and privacy again.
Privacy is not respected. There is no privacy policy and there are 3rd party cookies that
share your personal identification information (Name, Address, Phone Number, Email
Address, Login). The site is not SSL protected, which is clear from the crossed lock icon in
the browser. Two missed check marks.
Brief testing shows that the site does not have 3rd party ads. One point from that. The site
shows (not so good) suggestions in a very central position. Perhaps getting
partners/affiliates was their business idea that never materialized. Anyway, now there is
no sign of affiliate cookies, so we can give a check mark for that.
In this service, wish list creation is started by clicking the 'create wishlist' button on the
front page. Then you give your list a unique id. This is a nice idea, but not very practical in
real life as the 'good' names are already taken. Now it makes me try something only to
find that it was already taken. So just giving a name to your list may be a challenge. Be
prepared to try a few times or pick something more complex that others haven't used yet
to begin with. The next step is to assign the list a password, or skip password creation.
The password is actually useless, as the link to the list is not published anywhere in the
service. In theory, unprotected lists could be accessed through the front page search
functionality, but the user would need know the exact name of the list to do that, as e.g.
my search term 'mai' didn't bring up my test list 'maija2'.
Next, the user will need to give the wishlist a title and an optional description, add wishes,
and finally click 'save'. Saving opens a pop-up that asks the user for their own email
address and their login password. The email address needs to be in a valid format, but it
is not otherwise verified. If you accidentally give a wrong address, you will be in trouble.
After closing the pop-up, you can click the 'preview' button and then 'share' button to see

2. the url to your list.
It is up to the user to share the list's url and
password as they please. This qualifies in our review
as offering a private and public list. A check mark for
that.
If you click the page somewhere outside of list
actions (e.g. about, home or contact us), you will exit
your list and lose the visible controls to your list. In
that case, you can find the list under 'my account' in
the top right corner. (I was a bit confused myself for
a moment as to where to find it.)
This service is a
dedicated
wishlist service,
as that is all the
service does. A
check mark for
that. There is no
mobile app, but
the pages will
scale to a
mobile device,
so one mark for
a modern GUI.
Wishes can be
added from
anywhere,
which is great. Again one check mark. The service does not offer a bookmarklet, so
everything needs to be typed in manually. No check mark for that.
The site is provided in English and Finnish, so we can count it as a multilanguage service.
One check mark for that. However, at the time of making this review, there were several
places where an English translation was not provided and only Finnish strings were
present.
Login to the service is done with an email and password combination. That is also the only
provided login method. No check mark for multiple login methods.
The service can track purchases, but at the time of making the reservation, an invitee
needs to provide a valid email address. This might be a bit inconvenient and insecure, but
still works as a way of making a personal reservation. This will also allow the service to
send email to the person who has reserved an item for managing the purchase, in case
they want to modify or cancel their reservation. A check mark for tracking purchases.
That was the functionality of the lahjalista.net service. There is no 'surprise me'
functionality, nor any support for group purchases. No check marks for those, but one for

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the modern scaling GUI anyway.
There isn't any extra functionality beyond those we have already covered. We might list
the suggestions as a extra functionality. However, the suggestions are neither related to
the list nor to the event (for example, I created a test list that was for the 2nd birthday of a
toddler, and the service proposed a Moccamaster coffee machine), and actually it seems
that there are only a total of three different suggestions. So, maybe it's not worth
mentioning. What you think?
Cheers,
WishSimply
After clicking through the site, I noticed a link from the front page to the old version of the
service. There is more information about the service, like FAQ, Terms of service and a link
to their blog (last update from March 2016). Links to ToS and FAQ are not visible if the
English language has been selected.
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