While checking out the order status on a recent Amazon order I realized that on the ‘Your Orders’ screen was a pull-down menu that lists every year you placed an order with the company, enabling you to look back and see your entire ordering history.
Purchased directly from Amazon, it cost me $26.94. If I waited 15 years, I could have gotten it for $17.99 which is the selling price today (and as low as $13.79 with shipping from a third party seller which they didn’t have back then, I don’t think).
But that printer is long gone so I don’t think I will take advantage of the savings… :smack:
What is the first thing you ordered from Amazon, when was it (does anyone go back farther than I do) and how much less or more would it run you now?
Mine is Core Java Vol 1 and 2 back in July 2000, but I’m fairly certain that isn’t my oldest amazon purchase. amazon is older than that and I remember ordering stuff when I was a masters student (late 90’s). I remember when amazon announced they were adding CD’s to their sales and that was a big deal at the time. 1998-ish?
Mine is a 1997 purchase of “The Cipher” by Kathe Koja (which I’m fairly sure I never actually read). It doesn’t give a price though and returns an error if I try to view the invoice.
It does seem flaky though since there’s some research books I know I bought through Amazon but which don’t show in my history. I can believe that 1997 was my first purchase there but there’s obvious holes in my purchase history.
A card game called Mille Bornes in January of 2002. Twelve bucks then, close to $55 now.
I placed a grand total of ten orders wit them in 2002. I probably do that many in a month now, and with the new Prime free same-day service, there will be more.
My earliest order is 1999, but I know I ordered earlier, since I was pregnant with my daughter Christmas 1997 when we bought (paper!) gift certificates for the nieces and nephews. We were the cool aunt and uncle.
I’m positive we bought something in 1996 or earlier, when it was only a bookstore.
I just realized that January of 2002 is not my first Amazon purchase as I was buying stuff from them before I met my husband, and we met in early 2000.
2 books on the same day, by the same author, February 17, 2011: * Duplicate Effort *and Consequences, both from the Retrieval Artist series by Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
It’s actually pretty rare I buy just one thing at a time from Amazon, I usually order a bunch of stuff.
Assuming this is my complete list, it was “No Place Like Home”, Volume Four of Tom Bodett’s American Odyssey an audio cassette in 1996. I’m amazed it wasn’t a book.
I have an “error” message: There’s a problem displaying some of your orders right now
