Spend on Amazon (last Dec vs this Dec)

Anjunadeep

Did you spend more on Amazon last December or this December?

biko

I spend on ebay

biko

biko wrote: »

I spend on ebay

Did anything ever arrive for the spend though?

Atlantic Dawn

December ain't over yet.

£180.34 this December and £46.69 last year.

r93kaey5p2izun

0 this year, 0 last year. No poll option for me

scamalert

about 100 amazon, and 100ebay. not much as pretty last minute shopping as usual for me. good things no need crowd or go anywhere to buy out of 1-3 choices and pretty fast delivery on top. so all in about same as last year. as usually gifts limited to 20-30 sterling, mostly picking whats really needed and wont be thrown to be forgotten for years.

Ubbquittious

I havn't bought anything on amazon in about 5 years

893bet

A lot more this year.

600+ versus 200 last year.

punisher5112

I was out of work for a couple of months so honestly couldn't afford to do as much this year.

Hopefully get all back on track.

r3nu4l

Less this year, even with my Prime subscription. I'm switching up my spending this year by doing the following:

Buying local, from independent shops
Buying from small independent Irish crafters, mostly found on Instagram and Etsy

As much as I love the convenience and pricing on a lot of Amazon goods, I don't like their monopoly on the market, how workers in warehouses and their drivers are treated and how little tax they pay.

Badly Drunk Boy

I have an Amazon account but I haven't spent anything this December nor last December.

However...I very nearly signed up for Prime Video this morning. But I didn't.

Local independent shops are usually robbery with an awful choice of products. And, what people always seem to forget is that just because someone has a small independent shop it doesn’t always automatically make them a decent human.

JlMMY

Last 'Cember I spent no money, and the very next year I spent no money.

Manach

I had planned spending on Amazon, but between them and the delivery agents, they messed up the order and not delivered anything. Several hours of emails and chats with "Help" Amazon associates later - cancelled the order. Zero spent.

Notmything

Nothing last year, bout 300 this year. Had free prime for a month which definitely made it more attractive.

GoneHome

Didn't spend anything with them specifically for Christmas this year but bought a few bits and pieces throughout the year in general.

punisher5112

Bought my dad's present yesterday and it's getting delivered in the morning, I couldn't believe it when an post text me.....

Now that's service.

JlMMY

Notmything wrote: »

Nothing last year, bout 300 this year. Had free prime for a month which definitely made it more attractive.

Nothing last year,
'bout 300 this year.
Had free prime for a month,
and gave it away...

JlMMY

punisher5112 wrote: »

Bought my dad's present yesterday and it's getting delivered in the morning, I couldn't believe it when an post text me.....

Now that's service.

Bought my dad's present,
Yesterday,
and it's getting delivered,
in the morning,

This year, to save me from tears,
I couldn't believe it... ...special.

patrickc

way more this year, as a part time student again , I get free prime. it's so handy

antiskeptic

The consumption party, which started 250 odd years ago always had to come to an end.

I figured it would be resource depletion that would call a halt. But it is actually resource extraction (a.k.a. human consumption) which is doing us in. The pointy part of that shot in the foot is the releasing of energy built up slowly over millions of years over a comparative nanosecond of time. A 250 year nanosecond of time.

We're like frogs in a pot of warming water. And fossil fuels are stoking the fire.

Amazon is an anchronism in light of that clearly emerging reality. A fiddlying whilst Australia burns. The more we buy (full stop), the more we are climate change deniers. And Amazon encourages like no other to buy and so deny. Making it a liar.

But heck, it's a global business. They are all liars and we know it.

So less this year for me.

JlMMY

antiskeptic wrote: »

The consumption party, which started 250 odd years ago always had to come to an end.

I figured it would be resource depletion that would call a halt. But it is actually resource extraction (a.k.a. human consumption) which is doing us in. The pointy part of that shot in the foot is the releasing of energy built up slowly over millions of years over a comparative nanosecond of time. A 250 year nanosecond of time.

We're like frogs in a pot of warming water. And fossil fuels are stoking the fire.

Amazon is an anchronism in light of that clearly emerging reality. A fiddlying whilst Australia burns. The more we buy (full stop), the more we are climate change deniers. And Amazon encourages like no other to buy and so deny. Making it a liar.

But heck, it's a global business. They are all liars and we know it.

So less this year for me.

The con-sumption,
par-ty which st-ar-ted,
Two-fifty odd years,
ago-o-o-o

Al-ways, had-to-come to an end.
I figured it would be re-source.

De-pletion, that-would call a halt.
But it's actu-ally - resource extraction,
(a.k.a. - human con-sumption)
- which is - - - - doing us in.

The poin-ty - part of that shot,
in-the-foot-is-the re...leasing of energy,
Built-up-slowly-over millions of years,
Over a comp-ar-a-tive na...

...no-second o-of time.
A two-fifty year na-no-second of time.
We're like frogs - in-a-pot-of-warm water.
And-fossil-fuels are stok-ing the fire.

Am-a-zon is an an-chro-nism
in-light-of-that-clearly... emerging reality.
A fiddly-ing whilst Aus-tralia burns.
The-more-we-buy (f-u-ll stop),

The more we-are cli-mate-change deniers.
And Am-a-zon en-cour-ag-es
like no ot-her to-oo buy
and so deny. Ma-king-it-a-liar.

But heck, it's a global business.
They are all liars - and we know it.
So less this -- year for me.
I'll give it to someone...
I'll give it to someone special.

25 pounds last year, over 400 this year.

NewbridgeIR

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Local independent shops are usually robbery with an awful choice of products. And, what people always seem to forget is that just because someone has a small independent shop it doesn’t always automatically make them a decent human.

This is true.

"Have you got XXX?"

"No but I can order it for you"

"I can just order it myself from Amazon"


Spent £220 December last year. £50 this year - but ordered a lot from Amazon on 30 November.

Millicently

I spent more this year. But I'm really annoyed that the voucher I ordered for someone to be sent tomorrow was sent today.