Do you remember your first time shopping/ordering online?

Sure do... Amazon 1997. I always thought it would be the coolest thing ever to do, but there was no way I was going to put a credit card online at that point. I was thrilled to find out they allowed checks to be sent back then... 🥳 ... I haven't stopped since, but no checks after the first few orders. :ROFLMAO:
 
Yes a few months or years before Amazon went online I ordered something from EBAY. Can't remember what it was but I'm sure I needed it. Got it after placing my highest bid I'd go and won. Never had a problem with Ebay until later and was scammed for a little more than $100 for a undelivered item (think a DVD set). Selller ended up in court, I never received anything from EBAY/Paypal except a response back why I wasn't getting a refund. I got a court decision in my favor but still no refund. By then I think Amazon was my goto site.
 
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CallMeKate said:
Sure do... Amazon 1997. I always thought it would be the coolest thing ever to do, but there was no way I was going to put a credit card online at that point.
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I remember the warnings about using a credit card online. The sites weren't "secure", and scammers could interrupt transmissions to steal credit card numbers.
Now, Amazon has my credit card info on 'saved'.
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Elsie said:
I order online. Like it very much. My problem is with the delivery persons. Too often my pkg. is left in undesignated place.
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same thing happens to everyne ufortunately...

The delivery company that gets the worst rep in the UK is Evri ( used to be Hermes).... and Amazon the better rep...

However it's the wrong way round in my experience....and have a lot of deliveries...

Evri drivers follow all my instructions.. leave my parcel where I ask them..

Amazon NEVER do... and they most often leave the parcel where it can be seen by potnetial thieves.. Evri never do that...nor do DPD..or UPS..but Amazon just dump parcels anywhere and everywhere
 
Hollydolly, my upstairs neighbor glued a sign on the outside of our communal hall front door stating always put pkgs, on back porch. I knew the problem with that was the delivery persons don't come up onto the porch where they could read it. (I could have told my neighbor, but I knew he'd have to find this out for himself) Some pkgs. have been delivered to back porch, some tossed on to front porch.
 
I don’t, it was probably a purchase on eBay. 🤔

I do remember when Jeff Bezos started Cadabra, selling books online, and thought that it was a dumb idea that would never catch on.

I have to admit that I miss spending time day dreaming my way through stacks of specialty catalogs in the days before the internet.
 
Long before the rise of the Internet, serious photography enthusiasts used national photography magazine ads to buy equipment from vendors like B&H in NYC that was mostly performed by telephone, checks in USPS mail, and eventually credit cards. Thus when the Internet rose, I was already quite familiar with buying goods that were not at local brick and mortar stores. The recent rise of Amazon has made the most change. Currently never use delivery services.
 
My first few times were a mess. I was always in a rush and didn't pay attention to everything and would end up with the wrong product, wrong size or something else. It also took me awhile to finally shop online because I didn't trust it and swore I would never do it.
 
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