707267 - Can't remove app from purchases

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Public Pages, defect, P2)

Description

[Lawrence Mandel [:lmandel] (use needinfo)]

I can't find any way to remove an app from my purchases. A user may want to do this if they don't like an app that they've purchased or no longer have a need for it. There should be some way to filter the list.

Comment 1

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

This is a good idea.  Can AMO steal this bug or is this for something else?

Comment 2

[Lawrence Mandel [:lmandel] (use needinfo)]

(In reply to Wil Clouser [:clouserw] from comment #1)
> This is a good idea.  Can AMO steal this bug or is this for something else?

Wil - If you're asking me, yes.

Comment 3

[Andy McKay]

I'm not keen on this for AMO. The listing of purchases is an accurate listing of what you've spent money on. 

I don't want to remove those records, they are key for accounting, stats and so on, so we'll have to add a "hide" this addon flag. 

Then there's the support issue of "the app isn't showing up because you've maybe marked it as hidden"? If we put a total on this page of how much you've spent, would this show up or not?

To me, "My Purchases" is primarily a list of purchases for refund, accounting and so on purposes for the end user. Not something they'd be visiting a lot. I'm not sure what the use case or end user demand for AMO is.

Comment 4

[Lawrence Mandel [:lmandel] (use needinfo)]

Here's a use case:

I'm looking for a new game. Something that's easy to play and can kill some time while I'm waiting to pick up my kids. I decide to download Munchkin Poppers. (I'll let others decide what this game does.) Unfortunately, the game isn't for me. I now see this game on my list of apps on my phone and on my PC but I'm no longer interested in the game. What I need is a way to remove this game from my list.

I agree with Andy's comment 4 that I do want a list of all purchases and would expect to have the ability to reinstall this game later without paying a second time.

Comment 5

[Andy McKay]

Agreed you should be able to remove a game from any phone, dashboard, desktop or where ever you launch things from regularly.

I'm not sure where AMO fits into that, so I'm removing the block, when I know will add back in :)

I think we agreed you should not be able to remove from AMO My Purchases which has a different use case.

Comment 6

[Lawrence Mandel [:lmandel] (use needinfo)]

(In reply to Andy McKay [:andym] from comment #5)
> I think we agreed you should not be able to remove from AMO My Purchases
> which has a different use case.

Yes. Agreed. We need the complete purchase list for audit purposes.

Comment 7

[Andy McKay]

Presumably there are new mocks or plans for this.