But, your comment about not turning off notifications really resonates. I have had ebay notifications turned on for 2 items for 15 and 10 years. 1 is for a white whale motorcycle fender, but the other is for a Tektronics 465 flyback transformer. I get quite a few notifications about that, but I keep it going simply because it is a occasional reminder through the week of the project that got me seriously back into the electronics hobby. I now have better oscilloscopes, but the 465 remains on the bench. Part of it is it has the perfect cold War asthetic for proper mad-scientist vibes. But the main reason, and the reason I keep the 1 eBay notification going, is that that project is what got me back into electronics as a hobby and turned me away from the dark path I was heading down.
Glad I'm not alone in keeping a shopping notification going for the occasional pick-me-up reminder email. You just selected something much cooler than me. ;)