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11-10-2002, 07:26 PM
|  | Rooster Duck | | Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Almost Philadelphia
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I wish I knew the year of mine. Once the internet BOOM hit, time seemed to compress and distort.
This much I know:
I was an AOL member. I loved to catalog shop. I'd heard tell that you could actually buy catalog products off of the World Wide Web.  Shazzam!.
AOL had shopping links, and I placed orders with Disney and Avon on the same day. (Not sure which store gets the official "first"  ). My kids were pretty darn small because I remember I bought them Winnie the Pooh and Buzz Lightyear PJs from Disney for Christmas. (I'll bet that puts the month at October or November, because I don't remember being worried about the stuff arriving quickly.)
Can anybody help me get the year straight? The stores were so funny. Disney had maybe 20 products, total, available. Avon had more, but nowhere near a full print catalog.
What was your first?
Andrea
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11-10-2002, 07:30 PM
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Books. Don't remember where from though, it was so very many years ago....  |
11-10-2002, 07:34 PM
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I was living in Albuquerque, so I'd guess 1995 sometime. Absolute latest it could have been was December 1995. Don't remember what was first - I dove in pretty quickly.
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11-10-2002, 08:12 PM
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I couldn't tell you for certain that this was the earliest (I somehow doubt it) but I was one of Amazon's first customers. That was back in '95.
In fact, the first two years they were open they actually sent me a Christmas present for being a good (read one of their few) customer. (Mouse pad - year one; Insulated travel mug - year two.) Impressed the hell of of me it did.
After two years I imagine their customer base grew way too big to spend those kind of bucks.
Sara
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11-10-2002, 08:26 PM
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1995?
Geeze, I guess that might have been it for me...although it is hard to think that it's been seven years.
I got one of those Amazon Christmas presents, though, mug...and I did Amazon way after I did Disney and Avon.
Oh crap, now I have to know how long Disney and Avon have been online. I mean, I know when my kids were born, I need to know when my online shopping life was born. 
(First catalog I ever shopped was One Hanes Place, in my very early 20's)
Andrea
who remembers these things but obviously sucks at years
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11-10-2002, 10:20 PM
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I didn't dive in until probably three or four years ago. I think it was probably late 1998. I bought a plane ticket, and haven't booked offline since then.
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11-10-2002, 10:45 PM
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Either textbooks (1998? 99?) or toys (99?) for the kiddies, which I just finished doing just now for this year.
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11-10-2002, 10:59 PM
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Amazon.com
Books!
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11-10-2002, 11:50 PM
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Three years ago, a harder-to-find CD for a girlfriend at Amazon.
Good experience, fair price, fast shipping and all that. But I didn't shop online again until last month, when I discovered eBay.
This time it may last. I started using eBay for stuff that I couldn't find anywhere else. (Like a red leather passenger seat out of a Porsche 911 that will be my new office chair.  ) But I'm now looking at eBay first for things that I would otherwise buy locally. The reason isn't a lower price. Its the service. Even when dealing with a "Power Seller" who has hundreds of items on sale at a time, I still get the kind of personal service that I haven't seen in a brick and mortar store for years.
Anyone else notice this?
Brian
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11-11-2002, 12:02 AM
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It was late fall of either '96 or '97. Barnes and Noble. They had all these $5 and $10 promotional gift certificates floating all over the place - and you could use them to pay shipping! I got tons of small stuff for either nothing or just a few cents. Amazon was probably next, that was when they were practically throwing $10, $15, and higher, gift certificates all over the place. I only paid about $25 or less for tons of Christmas gifts that year!
Must have been 1997, by my calculations of which family we do which holiday with.
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11-11-2002, 12:07 AM
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Quote: Originally posted by emeleel
It was late fall of either '96 or '97. Barnes and Noble. They had all these $5 and $10 promotional gift certificates floating all over the place - and you could use them to pay shipping! I got tons of small stuff for either nothing or just a few cents. Amazon was probably next, that was when they were practically throwing $10, $15, and higher, gift certificates all over the place. I only paid about $25 or less for tons of Christmas gifts that year!
Must have been 1997, by my calculations of which family we do which holiday with. |
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11-11-2002, 12:45 AM
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Way too long ago to remember. Probably before the Web - on Prodigy - back in 1990. In fact, that is most certainly it. |
11-11-2002, 10:04 AM
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I was a latecomer to online shopping. My first online purchase must have been from Amazon.com when I was stationed on Okinawa. I think it was summer 1998. The on-post bookstore could not order a book I wanted (for who knows what nefarious reason) and their pickin's were pretty slim anyway. Someone told me about Amazon and an internet customer was born (before that I mostly used the internet for email, searches, and online banking).
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11-11-2002, 11:41 AM
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Amazon.com, for books. I don't remember when ... probably no sooner than 1998, since that's when I really started spending time online.
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11-11-2002, 12:05 PM
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I do believe probably on Amazon in 1997 or 1998. Since then, I've ordered from about a zillion stores. I'm keen on Amazon, Gap, J. Crew, and a few other usually catalog stores.
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11-11-2002, 12:13 PM
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Oh wow. I dunno, something like 1994, and it was either MacMall.com or Amazon.com. |
11-11-2002, 12:21 PM
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I didn't have money until 1997. Probably made my first online purchase at Barnes and Noble sometime around then. Honestly don't remember.
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11-11-2002, 01:50 PM
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It was Amazon, and we got one of those Christmas mugs, too, and Amazon used to have good discounts back then (sigh...)
All good things must come to an end. I usually find better buys at stores other than Amazon now.
In the tumultuous years of job disruptions between 1995 and 1999, I judge time by what state we lived in. We lived in South Dakota, so it was between August, 1996 and August, 1998. |
11-11-2002, 06:54 PM
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Gee... CD Now... not sure what year at all. I think it was my senior year of high school... so that would be 1996. I think I bought Metallica's S & M... but... I'm not sure. | |
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