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How did we ever survive without online shopping?

Superfly

Superfly

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Anybody love it as much as me?

I am literally almost finished with Christmas shopping, all because I can sit here, in silence, and shop without fighting traffic, going to the malls, or anything else.

While I do usually partake of Black Friday sales, I do so only because they have really cool other stuff on sale (other than Christmas gifts) that I take advantage of.

The only thing I have yet to get is a drone for my husband. He wants one of the bigger ones, but I don't want to spend a lot because he may crash it until he gets used to using it, and I'd rather it not be a very expensive one.
 
Superfly said:
Anybody love it as much as me?

I am literally almost finished with Christmas shopping, all because I can sit here, in silence, and shop without fighting traffic, going to the malls, or anything else.

While I do usually partake of Black Friday sales, I do so only because they have really cool other stuff on sale (other than Christmas gifts) that I take advantage of.

The only thing I have yet to get is a drone for my husband. He wants one of the bigger ones, but I don't want to spend a lot because he may crash it until he gets used to using it, and I'd rather it not be a very expensive one.
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I went to the store!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Superfly said:
Anybody love it as much as me?

I am literally almost finished with Christmas shopping, all because I can sit here, in silence, and shop without fighting traffic, going to the malls, or anything else.

While I do usually partake of Black Friday sales, I do so only because they have really cool other stuff on sale (other than Christmas gifts) that I take advantage of.

The only thing I have yet to get is a drone for my husband. He wants one of the bigger ones, but I don't want to spend a lot because he may crash it until he gets used to using it, and I'd rather it not be a very expensive one.
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Seriously. My wife and I love the convenience of Amazon, and online shopping is such a huge time and money-saver. The only problem with it is that it quickly becomes easy to ironically spend too much money because of all the great deals you can find. :doh
 
I'm pretty easy going about the whole thing.

We go to a mall about once or twice a month and I do SOME online shopping, but malls don't have a whole lot for me usually, I dont buy a lot of clothes so that's like 90% of the whole mall ruled out, some malls do have the more funky stores I'm after so, yeah.
 
Felis Leo said:
Seriously. My wife and I love the convenience of Amazon, and online shopping is such a huge time and money-saver. The only problem with it is that it quickly becomes easy to ironically spend too much money because of all the great deals you can find. :doh
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Man, who you tellin'? That's where they get you. I got a coupon yesterday for $100 off if you spend $200, so I partook of that particularly great deal. I told Hubs how great I did, and he was like, "But how much would you have spent if you had not gotten the coupon?" :lol: He did have a point, but I don't spend a lot of money on myself, so he doesn't bust my chops over it.
 
Superfly said:
But - but people. :lol:
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I know the mouth breathers and oxygen thieves got to deal with them too, but heck it is nostalgia, like having to fire up a car and wait for the engine to warm up so the carburator works fine, or getting up to change the channel because you lost the remote and universal remotes never seemed to cover your tv model or going to the utility building to pay your utilities bill.
 
Online (sight never seen?) shopping is wonderful if you know exactly what you want to buy and the source site actually delivers what they advertise. Far too often, the 'detailed' online product descriptions lack very important data and/or include 'verified purchase' reviews of "it worked great" (mere minutes after the product was delivered).

I use a hybrid version of shopping - I start with online research of specific product reviews, go to a brick and mortar store to examine my 'selected winner' product and then, if the savings are significant, may buy that product from an online source.

Even something as simple as an LED lamp (light bulb?) often is lacking important 'details' such as how many lumens it produces - IMHO the main purpose/mission of such a lamp. More complex products, such as tools/equipment, are even more difficult to evaluate from (often poorly translated) 'detailed product specifications' offered online - for example does a cargo trailer have 16" OC framing or 24" OC framing and is that framing aluminum, steel or wood and, if metal, is it C-channel, I-beam or boxed 'tube'?

One usually gets a better 'feel' for what a product is like if it can be personally examined than simply relying on advertised 'specs'.
 
Jetboogieman said:
I'm pretty easy going about the whole thing.

We go to a mall about once or twice a month and I do SOME online shopping, but malls don't have a whole lot for me usually, I dont buy a lot of clothes so that's like 90% of the whole mall ruled out, some malls do have the more funky stores I'm after so, yeah.
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We have a mall here that's almost dead, but they have a couple of decent stores. They have taken up almost all the empty stores with Belk's, so we have like 10 Belk's stores in one mall. :lol: Good thing I love Belk's. They have some pretty amazing household stuff.
 
Jetboogieman said:
I'm pretty easy going about the whole thing.

We go to a mall about once or twice a month and I do SOME online shopping, but malls don't have a whole lot for me usually, I dont buy a lot of clothes so that's like 90% of the whole mall ruled out, some malls do have the more funky stores I'm after so, yeah.
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Tell me your mall atleast has a spencers, where else can you buy a portable stripper pole, a beer bong, sex toys drinking games and everything else your wife won't let you have?
 
beerftw said:
I know the mouth breathers and oxygen thieves got to deal with them too, but heck it is nostalgia, like having to fire up a car and wait for the engine to warm up so the carburator works fine, or getting up to change the channel because you lost the remote and universal remotes never seemed to cover your tv model or going to the utility building to pay your utilities bill.
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:lol: Screw nostalgia. I had a Dodge when I was a kid. I hated it. It was cold-natured and wouldn't stay cranked. I traded it in, and saw it on Mecum the other day for around $40,000. So yeah. Sore spot there. I also bought one of those universal remotes at Target that were programmable - you plug them in your computer and set them up that way. It's better, but that LED screen runs through batteries pretty quickly.

And bill paying? I don't even worry about running to the branch. I just have everything set up on autopay and don't even think about paying them anymore. Takes the sting out a little.

Some nostalgia is great. Riding your bike when you were 10, with no worries was great. Gramma's homemade biscuits were great. My dad sitting me on his knee was great. Driving all the way into town to stand behind people for 30 minutes to pay a bill? Nah. :lol: I'll take online payments any day, and twice on Sunday.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
Online (sight never seen?) shopping is wonderful if you know exactly what you want to buy and the source site actually delivers what they advertise. Far too often, the 'detailed' online product descriptions lack very important data and/or include 'verified purchase' reviews of "it worked great" (mere minutes after the product was delivered).

I use a hybrid version of shopping - I start with online research of specific product reviews, go to a brick and mortar store to examine my 'selected winner' product and then, if the savings are significant, may buy that product from an online source.

Even something as simple as an LED lamp (light bulb?) often is lacking important 'details' such as how many lumens it produces - IMHO the main purpose/mission of such a lamp. More complex products, such as tools/equipment, are even more difficult to evaluate from (often poorly translated) 'detailed product specifications' offered online - for example does a cargo trailer have 16" OC framing or 24" OC framing and is that framing aluminum, steel or wood and, if metal, is it C-channel, I-beam or boxed 'tube'?

One usually gets a better 'feel' for what a product is like if it can be personally examined than simply relying on advertised 'specs'.
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This is a very manly post. I can feel the testosterone oozing from it. :lol:

I don't buy anything large or really expensive online, or really technical, but I've been Christmas shopping this morning, and burned through so much on my list. Like my daughter wanted American Eagle jeans. American Eagle jeans are normally about $60 each, on average. Between the buy one, get one 50% off sale, plus the "$50 off of $150" coupon, after tax, with free shipping, I spent $117 on 4 pairs of jeans. If they don't fit? Take them back. The AE store in our mall is one store that hasn't been taken over by Belk's. Normally, that would have been $240 on jeans, plus tax and shipping.
 
beerftw said:
Tell me your mall atleast has a spencers, where else can you buy a portable stripper pole, a beer bong, sex toys drinking games and everything else your wife won't let you have?
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:lol: No, we don't even have a Spencer's in our mall. Sad, innit?
 
Superfly said:
This is a very manly post. I can feel the testosterone oozing from it. :lol:

I don't buy anything large or really expensive online, or really technical, but I've been Christmas shopping this morning, and burned through so much on my list. Like my daughter wanted American Eagle jeans. American Eagle jeans are normally about $60 each, on average. Between the buy one, get one 50% off sale, plus the "$50 off of $150" coupon, after tax, with free shipping, I spent $117 on 4 pairs of jeans. If they don't fit? Take them back. The AE store in our mall is one store that hasn't been taken over by Belk's. Normally, that would have been $240 on jeans, plus tax and shipping.
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I am indeed shopping (thinking?) in a different way. IMHO, it is not worth the added risk of online shopping for small ticket (and thus small savings) purchases. Sure, I could send a cheesy product back but then what have I "saved"? I still need that product and don't have it - all to "save" the trouble of going to a nearby store and getting what I wanted (and will now have to do so anyway).

Another good use that I make of online outlets is getting the local brick and mortar stores to 'price match' those (fantastic?) online discount prices - essentially trading paying the state's 8.25% sales tax for the cost (and delay) of shipping from an online source. Amazon Prime's benefit of 'free' shipping (for a $99/year membership fee) makes that decision go in their favor much more often for 'big ticket' items.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
I am indeed shopping (thinking?) in a different way. IMHO, it is not worth the added risk of online shopping for small ticket (and thus small savings) purchases. Sure, I could send a cheesy product back but then what have I "saved"? I still need that product and don't have it - all to "save" the trouble of going to a nearby store and getting what I wanted (and will now have to do so anyway).

Another good use that I make of online outlets is getting the local brick and mortar stores to 'price match' those (fantastic?) online discount prices - essentially trading paying the state's 8.25% sales tax for the cost (and delay) of shipping from an online source. Amazon Prime's benefit of 'free' shipping (for a $99/year membership fee) makes that decision go in their favor much more often for 'big ticket' items.
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I remember when online shopping first became a "thing," and the brick and mortars wouldn't price match the online prices. Now they realize that they are losing money hand over fist to the online retailers, so they have to step up their game.
 
Superfly said:
But - but people. :lol:
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yep. man, the older i get, the more i like buying things without going to the store. had a lot of fun at the mall when i was younger, though.
 
For the most part the internet is a huge time waster for me. Online shopping, however, is one of the few areas in which the internet saves me time and frustration. The only downside is often when I AM out and about and want to pick up something up at a brick and mortar they no longer carry the item and can only order it. The sales clerk always says something like, “we can order that for you”. No thanks, I can order it myself.
 
Skeptic Bob said:
For the most part the internet is a huge time waster for me. Online shopping, however, is one of the few areas in which the internet saves me time and frustration. The only downside is often when I AM out and about and want to pick up something up at a brick and mortar they no longer carry the item and can only order it. The sales clerk always says something like, “we can order that for you”. No thanks, I can order it myself.
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One of my favorite things? My kindle. Yes, if Winchester is reading this, you were right. I love the Kindle, and even moreso, I love finishing a book at 12:30 am and having the 2nd book ready to go by 12:35 am.
 
Superfly said:
Anybody love it as much as me?

I am literally almost finished with Christmas shopping, all because I can sit here, in silence, and shop without fighting traffic, going to the malls, or anything else.

While I do usually partake of Black Friday sales, I do so only because they have really cool other stuff on sale (other than Christmas gifts) that I take advantage of.

The only thing I have yet to get is a drone for my husband. He wants one of the bigger ones, but I don't want to spend a lot because he may crash it until he gets used to using it, and I'd rather it not be a very expensive one.
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I'm with you on this! I hate malls and the crowds. Online shopping is awesome. And with cyber Monday, I can skip most of the Black Friday madness as well. :lol:
 
holbritter said:
I'm with you on this! I hate malls and the crowds. Online shopping is awesome. And with cyber Monday, I can skip most of the Black Friday madness as well. :lol:
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I actually don't mind Black Friday. I usually go every year.
 
Living in the 3rd world means much higher delivery costs if I order from Amazon. Thankfully there is a fully stocked mall within walking distance from my house so I just buy my stuff over there for cheap. Great restaurant bargains too.
 
PoS said:
Living in the 3rd world means much higher delivery costs if I order from Amazon. Thankfully there is a fully stocked mall within walking distance from my house so I just buy my stuff over there for cheap. Great restaurant bargains too.
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Third world gives you access to all the cheap products, when I was in afghanistan they were selling iphone models before they hit the states, except the ios because they employees would copy the hardware and sell them under names like myphone guy phone you phone etc. The downside being it had a modified android to work on iphone hardware, like I said those chinese needed access to the software to counterfeit it.

Another favorite was a knockoff of a general electric fridge made by the chinese and sold by the afghan locals, the brand name was admiral electric, clearly similar enough to let you know it was a knockoff but far off enough no one was going to do anything about it.
 
It doesn't seem that long ago that I was laughing at what seemed like a ridiculous notion, of ordering common, everyday stuff online and having it mailed to you! It just seemed SO lazy, and it made me wonder if society was going to become a bunch of couch potatoes who never leave their houses, because literally every item you'd normally go to a store to buy, would be dropped off on your front porch! Is it any wonder why the regular people you see in the background in movies & tv from the 60s, 70s and 80s were generally skinny? Now, despite less saturated fat and more healthy menu items, society looks MUCH heavier on average?
 
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