# Recent Online Ordering? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 12, 2000, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-online-ordering/13783 "2000-02-12T11:57:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Doobieous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Doobieous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doobieous)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2000, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-online-ordering/13783/1 "2000-02-12T11:57:00Z")
Just another mundane pointless post from me… What have you all ordered online recently (can be anywhere from yesterday to 6 months ago)? A couple of days ago, I bought myself a Chinese style name stamp (chop). I ordered it from an online company (Good Orient), and it’s real stone, and actually carved by someone who carves name stamps. It would be considered a bit gauche to some people because it also has my name in English on it (authentic ones carved by masters only include the name in Chinese characters). I went with my Chinese Zodiac animal (sheep/goat). It may not be a masterpiece in stone, but it’s a nice gift I’m giving to myself. It also comes in it’s own box, and with a dish of red ink. * * * It’s worth the risk of burning, to have a second chance… ---
**Author:** ![CircusBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@CircusBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CircusBoy)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2000, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-online-ordering/13783/2 "2000-02-12T16:05:00Z")
Nothing too unusual, “Sick Puppy” the new book from Carl Hiassen, from those nice ppl at Amazon. ---
**Author:** ![WillGolfForFood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/82dd89/32.png) [@WillGolfForFood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WillGolfForFood)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2000, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-online-ordering/13783/3 "2000-02-12T16:11:00Z")
I purchased a Bushnell Laser Rangefinder (one of the new 600-yard models) via an EBAY auction a few weeks ago. The process went well. ---
**Author:** ![Oblio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c4cdca/32.png) [@Oblio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oblio)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2000, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-online-ordering/13783/4 "2000-02-12T16:34:00Z")
A pair of 56K modems from cpusolutions. No problems. Mindspring sucks here. I am lucky to get 28K connect, IF I connect. Oh well, off to find another ISP. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2000, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-online-ordering/13783/5 "2000-02-12T16:45:00Z")
Nothing too unusual, “Sick Puppy” the new book from Carl Hiassen, from those nice ppl at Barnes & Noble. Well, that and a shithousefull of other books. ---
**Author:** ![PurpleCrackwhore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc348/32.png) [@PurpleCrackwhore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleCrackwhore)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2000, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-online-ordering/13783/6 "2000-02-12T17:10:00Z")
I ordered two CD’s last night. Santana’s new one and another Aida because I gave my first one to a friend. * * * I really try to be good but it just isn’t in my nature! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2000, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-online-ordering/13783/7 "2000-02-12T17:17:00Z")
Well, after six months of fruitlessly searching for them in book stores in four different states, I finally broke down and ordered _Vamp_ and _Platinum Girl_ from Barnes & Nobles yesterday. I also ordered four other books as well. I generally prefer to order via Amazon, because I have to pay sales tax with B&N, but I have to admit B&N often has books in stock that Amazon doesn’t. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2000, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-online-ordering/13783/8 "2000-02-13T06:51:00Z")
I ordered several Christmas gifts online. One was fine. The others (records and tapes) arrived much too late for Christmas (and were ordered a week before the item that DID arrive). There was an error on the web page for one of the tapes, so the song I wanted isn’t actually on the tapes. All in all, annoying and frustrating. Don’t let all the hype fool you. It all boils down to one simple equation: Internet commerce = mail order * * * “East is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does.” – Marx Read “Sundials” in the new issue of Aboriginal Science Fiction. [www.sff.net/people/rothman](http://www.sff.net/people/rothman) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2000, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-online-ordering/13783/9 "2000-02-13T06:55:00Z")
Barnes and noble sent me a $10 coupon that had to be used by next week – how could I let that pass?? I bought two copies of Special Circumstances by Sheldon Siegel (he’s my buddy – I’m buying an extra copy for another friend to have it autographed for her), a dinosaur encyclopedia for Eldest Son for his birthday (hope he’s not reading this!) and a kid’s novel for Middle Son. I like shopping on line – I did a lot of it over Christmas. -Melin ---
**Author:** ![SpaceJackson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@SpaceJackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpaceJackson)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2000, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-online-ordering/13783/10 "2000-02-12T19:03:00Z")
I purchased a box of weasels for 4 bucks off of [hick.com](http://hick.com) ---
**Author:** ![TheUnforgiven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TheUnforgiven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheUnforgiven)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2000, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-online-ordering/13783/11 "2000-02-12T19:13:00Z")
I bought a new all tube guitar amplifier off of eBay and it just got here yesterday! I was outside waiting for the UPS guy to unload his truck , just like a little kid waiting for some ice cream. * * * “The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.” -H.P. Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu” ---
**Author:** ![Shadowfox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Shadowfox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadowfox)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2000, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-online-ordering/13783/12 "2000-02-12T19:27:00Z")
I have ordered about a dozen or so books over the last year, five or six music CD’s, several of my children’s Christmas presents, several computer hardware parts, and a few other things I can’t recall at this particular moment. Yep, the Internet Shopping gods know me well. * * * Shadowfox _“Distinguished” Sexy assistant to Head Honcho, Self-Righteous Clique_ ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2000, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-online-ordering/13783/13 "2000-02-12T20:41:00Z")
Ordered the new Jimmie Dale Gilmore CD – thanks to Doper elelle sending an e-mail to alert me! Way cool! A bunch more Joe Lansdale books, and four more Garth Ennis’ Preacher books, and The Stephen King Universe (coming this summer). ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2000, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-online-ordering/13783/14 "2000-02-12T22:04:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Barnes and noble sent me a $10 coupon that had to be used by next week – how could I let that pass?? The fact that they’ll send you another one next week? 😉 Last thing I bought on the net was… umm… a web hosting plan. But they’re sending me some web design software (not that I really need it - I had the site ready when I got the web host) so at least something is getting sent through the mail. For some reason I prefer Amazon over B&N. I think only because there’s a B&N down the street so buying from them online just seems odd to me. Anyway, I’ve bought a few horticultural texts from Amazon that you’d have a harder (though not impossible) time finding in the stores. Oh, and a Sega Genesis game for old time’s sake off of eBay. * * * “I guess one person can make a difference, although most of the time they probably shouldn’t.” ---
**Author:** ![Globe-trotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@Globe-trotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Globe-trotter)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2000, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-online-ordering/13783/15 "2000-02-12T22:15:00Z")
I order truckloads of books and let them pile up until I get around to reading them. * * * “I thought: opera, how hard can it be? Songs. Pretty girls dancing. Nice scenery. Lots of people handing over cash. Got to be better than the cut-throat world of yoghurt, I thought.” - Seldom Bucket ---
**Author:** ![OldBroad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@OldBroad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldBroad)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2000, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-online-ordering/13783/16 "2000-02-12T23:12:00Z")
Computer gear & books. My online purchases are based on a combination of price and availability. Generally do my comparison shopping at [shopper.com](http://shopper.com) and [bestbookbuys.com](http://bestbookbuys.com) ---
**Author:** ![Anti\_Pro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Anti\_Pro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anti_Pro)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2000, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-online-ordering/13783/17 "2000-02-13T06:21:00Z")
I bought a Santana CD from CDNow and a car book from Barnes and Noble, and a ‘Best of Cream’ cassette from them as well. I like shopping online, it’s easy (maybe TOO easy!)fast, and no one bumps into me, and I don’t have to wait in stores that are usually too hot. Advertisment over! * * * “Consider it a challenge…” ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2000, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-online-ordering/13783/18 "2000-02-14T02:04:00Z")
Amazon without a question. No trouble at all, they confirm your order by E-mail and let you know when your order is shipping. Also, of course, they have a great selection of books. ---
**Author:** ![Y2Sandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/258eb7/32.png) [@Y2Sandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Y2Sandgirl)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2000, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-online-ordering/13783/19 "2000-02-14T02:24:00Z")
About a week ago, I ordered a membership to the Dave Mathews Fan Club, Warehouse. 🙂 * * * All right, brain, I don’t like you and you don’t like me - so let’s just do this and I’ll get back to killing you with beer. –Homer Simpson ---
**Author:** ![SterlingNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@SterlingNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SterlingNorth)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2000, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-online-ordering/13783/20 "2000-02-14T05:30:00Z")
Just a couple of \Oh My Goddess!\ comics. * * * **SterlingNorth** You’re a good man, Charlie Brown. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recent-online-ordering/13783.md?page=2)