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I take advantage of this on a few websites. Sears Parts Direct is a good example. Add the items to your cart, fill out your information and do not complete chec
by thedougd 4y ago
I take advantage of this on a few websites. Sears Parts Direct is a good example. Add the items to your cart, fill out your information and do not complete checkout. In a few hours you'll have a 10-20% off coupon in your inbox asking you to finish your checkout.
- feoren 4y agoAdding items to your cart counts as "hitting submit". "Hitting submit" means you asked the site to save some information or change state somehow. You can do what you describe without secretly collecting data that the user didn't want you to collect.
- thedougd 4y agoOn most commerce sites, while shopping as a guest or logged out user, you place items in your cart without providing personally identifiable information. After, during the checkout phase, you provide either all your PII in a single step or in phased steps. In either case, it's not clear that you're submitting that information to the other party until you click, 'complete order', or however they label their submit button.