Online Purchasing

[NippleMuncher]

I was having a conversation with the girlfriend today about online purchasing, and I'd like some outside perspectives if you don't mind sharing.

What kinds of things do you and your spouse buy online? From fad to useful, hobby to necessity, what kinds of things are you looking for?

Do you buy in bulk? What kinds of consumables do you buy? (pet food, light bulbs, water filters, ???? )

Do you prefer online shopping to brick and mortar shopping?

 

[Aquagal]

I hate to shop. What a waste of time. So if I must dredge to the store, I grab whatever, buy it and leave.

Online shopping is easier in that way. I live where things aren't as readily accessible so shopping online has at times been my only option.

I've ordered kid toys, adult toys, clothing, shoes, fabric, hair supplies, butterfly cocoons, garden worms. My last purchase was a new net for the trampoline. Shipping here must always be pondered if it's worth it, because it's usually high.

 

[imemkay]

Everybody knows the internet was invented just so people could buy sex toys anonymously.

I don't think there's anything that I buy exclusively online instead using a brick and mortar. I do most of my Christmas shopping online just because I hate going out among the mad rush. I will run out to stores to buy stocking stuffers, but I'd say 90% of my Christmas shopping is done online.

I've never bought food online; but I will be during my vacation next month. I don't want to have to rent a car, so I'm ordering snacks, drinks and breakfast foods to be delivered to our hotel.

Oh, by the way.....30 days til Disney!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[StrayKat]

I hate shopping too. I order online everything but food.

 

[Eilan]

Usually books and sex toys.

 

[BiTodd]

I must be the only person who buys sex toys the old fashioned way. I'm dark sunglasses and disguise. . Kidding, but I do like to have had them in my hand to know what I am truly getting so I only buy in store.

lol, I remember the first time I as shopping for a dildo, in a sexy gift store. One nice older lady gave me her opinion and complimented me on being brave enough to come there and get what I want.

 

[simplegirl]

sex toys, books, some clothing (my fave store will occasionally have jeans on for $5, so I buy them online since the outlet usually runs out before I can make it there), soap making supplies (fragrance oils) since they're impossible to get locally, and computer games (through Steam and Gamefly you can get great sales on video games) and incense. Eclectic mix of stuff I guess.

 

[NippleMuncher]

Everybody knows the internet was invented just so people could buy sex toys anonymously.

I hate shopping too. I order online everything but food.

The question isn't whether or not you buy online, it is what specifically you tend to purchase online. I'm more curious what array of goods everyone is interested in.

Thank you everyone for participating, regardless of what your answer is, it is helpful none-the-less.

 

[NippleMuncher]

Come on guys and gals, there has got to be more of you who buy online.

 

[LallyH]

I've bought these online:

Computer hardware and consumables
Computer software
Concert tickets
Band merchandise
CDs
DVDs
Washing machine
Fridge freezer
Holidays
Books
Fancy dress costumes
Gourmet Christmas hampers

I won't buy groceries online after a string of disasters when I did try (asking for a 0.5kg joint of meat and getting half a cow as a substitute, and receiving 2kg of green grapes that was actually a bag of brown mush, etc etc). And I've never attempted buying clothes because I like to feel the material at least before I buy.

I also have to confess that I have been known to see something in a shop and then go home to buy it cheaper online

 

[Lord Pmann]

I've looked into buying bulk stuff from Amazon Prime. However, I've found it to be a better price to buy things in bulk from somewhere like Costco every year.

At the beginning of every year, I go to Costco and buy all of our yearly supplies. Toothbrushes, deodorant, hairspray, cleaning supplies, toilet paper, paper towels, detergent, razors, etc. I literally buy it all at one time, once a year.

These are the kinds of things I would recommend buying online, if you don't like concrete store places. I just find it cheaper going to Costco than ordering it on Amazon. It wouldn't be a big deal if you're just making purchases here and there, but making the purchase of a thousand dollars or so is worth the trip to the store.

 

[Acktion]

I do buy most things online. But, for me, it wasn't so much a choice per se so much as gradually becoming housebound disabled and developing agoraphobia. That's why I wasn't originally feeding in since the question seemed to be about which you preferred and that is, at best, a murky question for me.

I'm also not much of one for shopping around and tend to stick to where I know I can get what I'm after. For that reason, I tend to stick to Amazon for most everything including some groceries.

I actually did a cost analysis with my accountant father at one point over it and demonstrated that it was actually cheaper for me to order, say, a case of catfood and have it delivered by UPS than it was to rent a cab, go to the store, have the cabbie wait, purchase the same number of cans and no impulse buys (which have always been my bane), and go home.

Nowadays, the only things we don't buy online are certain food stuffs (such as meat and dairy) and prescription meds which we still order online from nearby brick and mortars and have delivered.

 

[NippleMuncher]

Thanks for all the input guys.

The question isn't really about "where" you shop, but what kinds of things you buy. You can list the naughty things if you like, but I'm really more interested in the daily widgets you use and purchase, things like reusable water bottles, BeDazzlers, that sort of thing.

 

[StrayKat]

I'm really more interested in the daily widgets you use and purchase

Ok. That would be painkillers and cat food/litter for me. It is cheaper and easier to get delivered than drag from the store.
Other stuff online I buy once, twice a year maybe not daily, like books, clothes/shoes, computer gadgets and small furniture.

 

[Acktion]

<blink>

A bedazzler? Really NM? That was just the first thing that popped into your mind? A freakin' bedazzler? You have been spending way WAAYYYY too much time with a certain stick figure and denim clad femme fatale over in the fashion fairy thread.

I almost dread to think what Emerson is going to do with that when he sees it.

<pauses and thinks a second then grins and goes to make popcorn (ordered online) to sit back and wait>

 

[NippleMuncher]

<blink>

A bedazzler? Really NM? That was just the first thing that popped into your mind? A freakin' bedazzler? You have been spending way WAAYYYY too much time with a certain stick figure and denim clad femme fatale over in the fashion fairy thread.

I almost dread to think what Emerson is going to do with that when he sees it.

<pauses and thinks a second then grins and goes to make popcorn (ordered online) to sit back and wait>

LOL I threw that in there to indicate that I wasn't looking for just necessity type items. Hobbies, crafts, useful and useless items of all kinds.

I did flash immediately to Rainy when I posted bedazzler though!

 

[silverwhisper]

NM, i tend to buy stuff online if/when i can find it cheaper online. that's pretty much it for me. i generally prefer to buy sex toys in a brick & mortar store, if only b/c you can get a much better feeling for the product that. stuff i will cheerfully buy online are music.

my one caveat to the foregoing: i really dislike amazon due to their treatment of employees.

ed

 

[Lord Pmann]

Thanks for all the input guys.

The question isn't really about "where" you shop, but what kinds of things you buy. You can list the naughty things if you like, but I'm really more interested in the daily widgets you use and purchase, things like reusable water bottles, BeDazzlers, that sort of thing.

You're not getting any bedazzlers online. A certain Aussie has purchased the last 15 of them and hoards them, writing "Pmann's Girl" all over the back of her denim vests.

I'd recommend buying things like the following:

Cleaning supplies
Paper products
Deodorant
Toothbrushes
Toothpaste
Bleach
Detergent
Soap

These are all things easily stored and are best bought in bulk.

 

[Lord Pmann]

my one caveat to the foregoing: i really dislike amazon due to their treatment of employees.

ed

But their prices are so good.

 

[Lord Pmann]

my one caveat to the foregoing: i really dislike amazon due to their treatment of employees.

ed

Sorry for the random hijack, but that link is horseshit. The stuff that they call "terrible treatment" is mostly more horseshit. What's wrong with an average paycheck of $23,500 for someone who works in a warehouse loading boxes? What the fuck are they supposed to make? $40,000? Do you want the price of your goods to go up 25%? I doubt it.

If the email stuff is true, then he's an ass. But that stuff about pay is simply retarded. I hate that everyone thinks they should make six figures.


Sorry NM.

 

[silverwhisper]

o really? take a look at this, dude.

ed

 

[Aquagal]

I've looked into buying bulk stuff from Amazon Prime. However, I've found it to be a better price to buy things in bulk from somewhere like Costco every year.

At the beginning of every year, I go to Costco and buy all of our yearly supplies. Toothbrushes, deodorant, hairspray, cleaning supplies, toilet paper, paper towels, detergent, razors, etc. I literally buy it all at one time, once a year.

These are the kinds of things I would recommend buying online, if you don't like concrete store places. I just find it cheaper going to Costco than ordering it on Amazon. It wouldn't be a big deal if you're just making purchases here and there, but making the purchase of a thousand dollars or so is worth the trip to the store.

You buy a years worth of TP and PT?! Where do you put it all?

 

[Lord Pmann]

o really? take a look at this, dude.

ed

It may be a shit place to work. But I was commenting on the attitude of the article about their pay. $24k a year was made to sound like it was just a third world wage for a warehouse worker.

 

[Lord Pmann]

You buy a years worth of TP and PT?! Where do you put it all?

I do!

The toilet paper goes in the bathroom closet. It's stacked about 4 rolls high, 3 deep and 9 wide. Paper towels also to in there and the excess goes on shelves in the garage. I can open up the door I to the garage and grab them if need be. Paper towels are the hardest to store, due to their size.

 

[StrayKat]

It may be a shit place to work. But I was commenting on the attitude of the article about their pay. $24k a year was made to sound like it was just a third world wage for a warehouse worker.

Sounds just like a few jobs I saw here in Germany none found particularly shitty or out of ordinary. Only difference, the pay was about 13k a year translated to $ (that is in a lowest tax case, I would get around 9k).

I know they changed the minimum wages recently, tho not for much, but I very much doubt the treatment of employees changed any if not for worse with incoming Eastern Europe cheap work force.