Lists are collections of items for sale. Customers create lists and they apply their own logic for the items they place on the list. Customers create lists using the list creation tools on their Your Account page, which is found on www.Amazon.com.. ECS does not provide an operation to enable a customer to create a list.
ECS supports the following list types:
WeddingRegistry—Wedding registries are created by couples who want to tell people what they'd like to receive as a wedding present.
BabyRegistry—Baby registries are created by people expecting a child who want to tell others what they'd like to receive as a baby shower present.
WishList—Wish lists are created by people who want to give others an idea of presents they'd like. The occasion might be a birthday, wedding anniversary, Bar or Bat Mitzvah, or graduation.
Listmania—This list type is a catchall for all other list themes. Customers use their own logic to create a list. Listmania lists can be as specific ("Freshman Dorm Room Essentials ") or as general ("The Best Novels of 2006") as customers choose. In every case, the title of the list describes the list's theme..
On their Your Account web page, for each list, Amazon customers can set list access restrictions to one of the following values:
Public—Lets everyone access the list
Private—Lets only the list creator access the list
Shared—Lets people designated by the list creator access the list.
ECS functionality for the "Shared" value, however, is different. In ECS, only the list creator can access shared lists.
Wedding and baby registries are, by nature, meant to be public. For that reason, those lists are public by default, WishList and Listmania, however, are private by default. Customers can change the default settings using the Your Account web page.