Amazon's Consult-a-Friend Crowdsources Your Buying Decisions
If you're shopping on Amazon, you might send out potential purchase links to friends to get their opinion. But then you have to keep track of multiple conversations across different message apps. Amazon's Consult-a-Friend aims to solve that.
You'll need the Amazon Shopping mobile app (for iOS and Android) to get started; this feature doesn't work on a desktop browser (at least for now). And your friends will need it too, alas, so Consult-a-Friend may only be useful if all your friends already use Amazon's app. But if they are, the process is pretty easy.
Once you find a potential purchase that you want a second (or third or fourth) opinion on, tap the share link for the listing. Then, toggle "Ask for your friends' votes" to on, and select your preferred messaging app and contacts you want to consult.
Your friends will get a Consult-a-Friend link that launches the Amazon app. From there, they can vote with one of three emoji (
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