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title: "VKontakte's wish list is a very limited service at this stage. Pity :("
author: "Stan Voo"
url: https://www.99rabbits.com/blog/vkontakte-wish-list-is-a-very-limited-service
published: 2010-08-28
summary: "VKontakte's new wish list lets your friends pay for the gift but won't let them see it in the store. How are they supposed to choose a size?"
---

# 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](http://vkontakte.ru/developers.php?o=-1\&p=%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5+%D1%84%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BC%D1%8B+%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F).

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.