Friday OT #3 - The Amazonian

[SCNCY]

Looks like my first order on my current account was a Brain Series 3 shaver. However, I think my first order would have been some books for college on my university account.

 

[Brentwood]

Want to talk about boring...

FE Review Manual: Rapid Preparation for the General Fundamentals of Engineering Exam (F E Review Manual), 2nd ed.

 

[bluestarcyclone]

January 2005. A textbook for a marketing class.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

I went into my Orders on Amazon the other night to reorder something, and noticed how far back it goes. I What was your first Amazon purchase, if you go to your orders?

This was our first one under my account, in 2005: The Life Aquatic on Blu-Ray - Criterion Collection A Blu-Ray, talk about a now-dated purchase.

HA! You think YOURS was dated...
From August, 2002...

V - The Final Battle [VHS]

I ordered mostly tapes (later DVDs) and books from Amazon for about 15 years. It's only in the last few years that I have been doing far more purchasing online. Convenience, mostly. We live on an acreage so we make 1-2 trips to town per week now that we're no longer working...and even fewer than that since March.

 

[jcyclonee]

Want to talk about boring...

FE Review Manual: Rapid Preparation for the General Fundamentals of Engineering Exam (F E Review Manual), 2nd ed.

That is even more boring than my humidifier filters. You win. Hands down.

 

[MeanDean]

December 2005. Two copies of the Rockford Files Season One (for Christmas gifts for others). Also an Etta James CD (a Christmas gift for me)

 

[jdoggivjc]

I went into my Orders on Amazon the other night to reorder something, and noticed how far back it goes. I What was your first Amazon purchase, if you go to your orders?

This was our first one under my account, in 2005: The Life Aquatic on Blu-Ray - Criterion Collection A Blu-Ray, talk about a now-dated purchase.

Talk about dated purchases - I bought season 1 of The X-Files.

 

[1100011CS]

Apparently my wife (gf at the time) and I ordering textbooks.

 

[cycloner29]

My wife started ordering item the end of 2002 for daycare Christmas presents.



Me I started in 2016 and ordered replacement grill grates, flavorizer bars and burner for our grill. We still have the grill.

 

[Gunnerclone]

Mine was a movie as well. “Thrashin’” on June 2020, 2010

 

[C.John]

 

[jbindm]

Willie Nelson Guitar Songbook in 2007. I had just started lessons! Guess who still can't play guitar?

Thanks, @Angie, this was fun.

 

[jbindm]

It doesn't get much more boring than this.

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Those things can be hard to find in a big box store, though. Boring but respectable choice.

 

[Angie]

Willie Nelson Guitar Songbook in 2007. I had just started lessons! Guess who still can't play guitar?

Thanks, @Angie, this was fun.

It was an interesting history dive for me as I noticed when the tipping point into "holy **** I buy a lot on Amazon" happened.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

It was an interesting history dive for me as I noticed when the tipping point into "holy **** I buy a lot on Amazon" happened.

For me, that was when I realized I have 14 pages of orders in 2020...more pages than my first 10 years of shopping there...

 

[jbindm]

It was an interesting history dive for me as I noticed when the tipping point into "holy **** I buy a lot on Amazon" happened.

Oh yeah. I started my account in '07 and there were several years after that where I didn't make a single purchase. But then around 2013 it starts to ramp up a bit, and by the time I get to 2018 I'm starting to wonder if I maybe have a problem.

 

[VeloClone]

I don't know what it was but I'm pretty sure it was a book because that was all they sold. I was surprised when people started telling me they had bought other things on Amazon.

 

[CYdTracked]

Apparently I bought the Statler Brothers farewell concert on DVD for a gift for my mom back in 2003. Didn't think I even had an account that far back but apparently that was the purchase that started it all...

 

[urb1]

2006, first season of St. Elsewhere on DVD. Unfortunately, they never made DVDs for the rest of the seasons.

$27.99 for that. Crap! It was a great TV drama.

 

[Sparkplug]

2007 - humidifier filters

And still buying them every year in October