How do I mark an item as owned in Amazon?

Question

I'd like to improve my Amazon recommendations and special gold box deals by marking items that I own. I've done this in the past, and they've changed the item page so I can't find the "I own this" checkbox on the page any longer. It does appear on my recommended items page, but that's the only place I can find it. Is there any other way to mark an arbitrary item as owned?

Answer 1

According to a post in a Amazon support forum, Amazon customer support mentioned that this feature was removed:

Unfortunately, the option "I own it" checkbox on the product pages is no longer available on our website.

Another poster mentioned that it is possible to search for items and mark them as owned with this link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/rate-it

Another post notes:

After you mark items in the rate-it wizard - go to the "Items you've rated" page and you should see the new items at the top of the list with the star ratings you put in and the I-Own-It check box. AFAICT, the wizard isn't tied to your account - it's just a tool to input data.

So the new tool might not be exactly what you're looking for, but it's worth a shot.

Answer 2

On the Amazon Betterizer you can select 'not intersted' and/or 'i own it' by hovering over the item, like this:

Also, on recommendations, the same options are shown:

Answer 3

I finally found a good solution today:

Put the product on your wishlist, then go to the wishlist page and delete it, it will basically ask you why you deleted it, and you can can basically say, "because I own it"