VKontakte’s wish list is a very limited service at this stage. Pity :(

The devel­op­ers of VKontakte, the Russian social net­work, appar­ently didn’t want to leak traf­fic to online stores, so they left the URL of the wished-for prod­uct out of the wish list. Take a look at the list of parameters for creating the “I want this as a gift” button.

When you go to “Friends’ wishes”, you can’t go through to the wished-for prod­uct in the online store, but you can pay for it, that is, give it as a gift.

The logic, appar­ently, is to pro­mote VKontakte’s own pay­ment ser­vice for online stores. But! How do you pay for a gift in an online store you don’t know? What’s more, what if you need to choose a color or size in the store? What about find­ing out the deliv­ery terms? Was the ser­vice really designed with only Ozon.ru, the big Russian online store, in mind?

Maybe I haven’t fully fig­ured out the tech­nol­ogy? I hope the ser­vice will develop and change its format; oth­er­wise its uses are very limited.