Don’t expect a representative sampling of the population when taking this poll on SDMB!
Personally, I don’t like shopping except for a few hobbies and passions. If I’m shopping for books or tools, I want to see it before I buy it. I’ve gotten too much stuff online that wasn’t what I expected, especially used books that weren’t as described, tools that don’t fit my hands (I have big hands), or reference books with lousy indexes. I want to handle the tools and flip through the books, and having a few representative sample pages doesn’t help.
Since I like the instant gratification and looking through the merchandise, I want to have brick-and-mortar stores available, so I buy from the local shops whenever possible. If I can help them stay in business, they’ll be there when I want them.
**Peapod ** is groceries on line. They’re not available in all markets, but I love them. They’re more expensive, but if you can afford it, it’s a freekin’ joy to do groceries on line.
I loooove shopping online and I’d bet 80% of my stuff is an internet order. I order high-end clothes and modern furnishings I can’t find locally, at least one monthly order of books from Japan, designer shoes from ebay and Zappos, and always Amazon for books, DVDs, and videos. I think it’s amazing how you can think of an item (leopard print flats), do an online search to find the kind you want (Jeffery Campnell Love flats), and then find your size at some random store in New England.
I don’t even mind the wait, it always feels like getting a present.
Shop online? Darlings, I’d be naked without teh internets. Don’t know how I managed to clothe myself in the past. I love shopping online. I buy most of my clothes at Lands End’s overstock page, or during Talbots’ annual sale, which is going on now. I dress very well for very little.
Sunday night I bought a Kilim carpet, 12 x 9", at Overstocks.com. It was an amazing bargain. I paid $299. An almost identical rug is offered at a rug shop in my town for $1700. Overstocks.com shipped the rug free and it got here Tuesday afternoon. The rug shop was going to charge me $50 just to drive theirs three blocks to my house. The rug is beautiful quality, exactly as it was pictured and described on the website. I’m very happy with it. This was my first purchase from Overstocks.com. I’m definitely going to order from them again.
Does anybody want recommendations for good shoe bargains online? Forget Zappos - I know some better, cheaper sites. Let me know if you’re interested.
I love shopping online. I never have to leave my house and they deliver it right to my door. There is the downside that I don’t get to check it out in person before plopping down my money – but if it’s that important to me I’ll actually go to the store and check it out. There’s also the fact that what I buy today I don’t get today, so there’s the waiting. Neither of those are really huge issues though compared to the convenience of being able to shop from home.
Oh, good point. I was going to say I love shopping on-line, but for quilting fabric I have to touch it and wander the store. Luckily, except for certain shop-hop days, quilt stores are relatively empty.
Somehow my mom shops for fabric on-line, but I have a feeling it may be for things she has already touched in real life and can get cheaper through Hancock’s of Paducah.
I don’t worry too much about looking good in my clothes, they just need to be servicable. So it’s on-line for me!
I want to like it, try to like it, but hate shopping online.
Nobody in web land knows what an index is.
Take Home Depot. Their catalog index is almost impossible to locate, you have to thumb through lots of preliminary pages and there is no way to go to any particular starting letter.
Why is the index so hard to figure out?
I would love to look in an alphabetical index of key words on eBay for example. Unless you know what the choices are, it’s kind of like playing 20 Questions to narrow the search.
