I searched the last year or so for a thread like this, didn’t see one so here goes.
I love shopping online. I rarely buy clothes online because I’m a weird fit (loong legs and arms too, varying sizes by store, item, etc). But I do love buying shoes online. Today I found a pair of Pumas I’ve been drooling over for a year or so online and bought them. The site didn’t have them listed (Rogan’s Shoes if anyone’s heard of them - not local to me but only place that carried the color I wanted) in my size but they had a feature where you could request a shoe search of their retail stores. Guy emailed me back this morning, they had ONE pair left so I got them. Awesome customer service there. I had the same pair before with a different color scheme and wore them heavily for 3 years until they crapped out. I Google-fu’ed for an hour last night and this was the only place that had them.
Buying DVDs and stuff like that is so much easier online than in stores - you often get a better price and places like Amazon usually have anything and everything minus discontinued/rare stuff. When I go into a store with a particular movie or book in mind, it seems like they never have it. I ordered my Nikon D50 online because it was cheaper than in a store. Makes Christmas shopping easier for stuff like that - no lines, no annoying sales people.
The only thing that sucks is waiting for it to come.
The reason I am asking this because at my job, a lot of our stock is online and not in stores (approx 50%). People will look at the website then come in to the store expecting everything to be there (even though it tells you what we carry and where) and get really annoyed when they have to buy it online. I understand that feeling when it’s something that needs to be seen or tried out first, but some people are still positively allergic to shopping online. There’s just so much more stuff online.
I don’t like shopping, period. However, I do feel a certain…*aversion *to buying online. I feel I must touch the product before I buy it. I don’t even think about it. Online buying is always last on my list.
I don’t really like online shopping–I like the immediate gratification of going out and buying something, and it’s certainly not something I’d do for clothes, since trying them on is half the fun. But for things that I can’t find locally I’ll certainly go online, especially as an anime fan since some series I’m interested in aren’t carried in the local stores or are out of print, making Amazon and eBay my best bets.
I’ve had some great online shopping experiences and some really dreadful online experiences. I’ve learned that there are certain things you just can’t judge by looking at an online photo. I once bought a ring online with what I thought was a modestly sized gemstone, but when I got it and put it on, I realized it was truly godawful bauble-sized. I was really embarrassed at returning it (had really personal service on the other side of the internets, which made it worse) and I learned a valuable lesson! When it’s something uncommon or unfamiliar, I usually don’t chance it. However, if it’s something like good coffee from Kauai, a gift card, a DVD or CD, a requested toy, or something I’ve really researched, and I can get it with no tax and sometimes no shipping, and I don’t have to travel to get it? You bet your bippie I’ll buy it online!
I like to shop online. I like to have it delivered to my door. I get annoyed when I order something & the delivery company (UPS, Fed Ex, or USPS) decides to “fake” that they tried to deliver it & I end up having to go pick it up, completely defeating the purpose.
I love shopping on-line and have had only a couple of bad experiences – slow shipping and quality issues, nothing major though.
Heavens, some stuff gets to me on the third day after I order it. Like xanthous said, no driving, parking, or checkout lines, and sometimes free shipping and no sales tax.
I do a lot of it at Amazon, where the customer reviews come in handy for things other than books. “Those pans chipped after two uses!” or “I can see through these towels!”
I hate shopping.
I LOVE shopping online, even if I’m not really looking for anything. I love to browse Amazon especially, just to see what they have. Sometimes my oldest daughter and I “fantasy shop” together for hours, passing links through IMs. It’s a nice way to spend time together with her living so far away.
Almost everything I bought this year for Christmas was purchased online. I’ve never had a single problem, not even a late shipment. I mostly stick to Amazon and other popular sites…except eBay. I’ve heard too many horror stories from that place to trust it with my little bit of spendin’ money.
I love shopping online. Even for clothes. Sometimes it’s worth it to pay shipping (even return shipping on something that doesn’t fit) to not have to go to the store. I really hate to shop. Anything I can’t get at the grocery store or Target, I’m looking for online.
The only bad experience I’ve had is a comforter ordered from Overstock.com, which was a wildly different color than shown on the website. I returned it with no problem.
My wife and I both shop online, and have for all of this decade. We only have to go out for groceries, really. Just about anything else, we can get it for less, without a sales pitch, and pay no sales tax online.
It’s the best invention ever for book and record/CD collectors. Browsing through dusty racks and coming up empty-handed, or getting ripped off by unscrupulous staff are things of the past! Now you find what you want, and decide which price you’d like to pay, from several dealers. I like that a lot.
I love to shop online. I still grump about the shipping/handling charges but when it’s all said and done, it’s really a convenience thing and worth the extra cost.
I love shopping, period. Shopping on line is no exception.
I’ve had excellent success with Anthropologie & JCrew (two stores that we don’t have in Canada). Also, I’ve got some great items on e-bay - Sherman jewelry, for instance, much easier than trying to hunt through garage or estate sales.
I give it two thumbs up. I did quite a bit of my x-mas shopping on line this year, actually - movies, mostly, but I ordered some other stuff as well. It’s also great because I’m in Canada but have a couple of people in the US that I ship to - I can order on line and have items delivered directly and not pay the import duty, or taxes or what not.
I would LOVE to be able to shop for groceries online. Is this possible anywhere?
I’d love to have a local grocery store offer this and I’d gladly pay the delivery fee.
A quick google search yields this, though I don’t know the area they cover. I’ve heard of groceries doing this; usually a family-owned and/or higher-end store. When I lived in Indianapolis five years ago, Marsh stores were just experimenting with it.
I like to squeeze my own tomatoes, so I never did it myself, but I could see the appeal for lots of people.
We have Peapod here around Chicago (they deliver for Jewel) - and Safeway is now delivering in Arizona, California, Maryland, Oregon, Virginia, Washington and Washington D.C.
I am really, really surprised more large cities don’t have this option.
Wanted to add that the link that StuffLikeThatThere posted is for Peapod - they deliver to Chicagoland, Milwaukee, South East Wisconsin, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Washington D.C., Maryland, and Virginia.
I love to shop online. I bought several Christmas gifts online this year, and I often shop onine for myself. I buy a lot of stuff for myself on eBay, and love going to stores’ websites. I recently got a great deal on a peacoat through a store’s website (half price!) and when I visited the same store in person last weekend they were full price. One of the main reasons I shop online is because where I live, I don’t have access to many of the stores I like.
Rushgeekgirl, do you have a HyVee near you? I see on their website (I go there to create my grocery lists) that they offer online ordering with delivery or pick-up.
I love shopping online, most shipping costs less than $10, less than what it takes for gas and buying lunch if I have to hit the maul. And no sales tax from many vendors.
I live 30 miles from the nearest mall, my nearest Big K and wally world don’t carry the shoes, clothes, cookware,books or anything like I can find online.
My kids are not dressed for fashion but they have practical well made clothes and shoes that they always get compliments on because it s not what one can find locally. And I always buy on sale! and often its shipped for free and sales tax is nil!
I’ve had one less than satisfactory online experience. I bought a custom tye die car cover for the partners new beetle. It took months and months to arrive and paypal warshed its hands of my problem, but the car cover eventually arrived and is doing its job as I speak…
