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Old 07-11-2009, 11:11 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Do you order online or are you oldskool?

I know online is the place to go for lower prices but I just can't resist walking into a shop and buying even if I pay more.

The fact that I have a place to return to should anything go wrong, I don't have to wait for delivery, when I want it i walk in and buy it.

Is anyone else the same or do you find you make most of your purchases online?

Hell my gf has now started doing the food shopping online
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Old 07-11-2009, 11:14 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Re: Do you order online or are you oldskool?

Got half of my christmas shopping done and out of the way, just a few more bits to get done, all of it online.

I only go to the shops if I need to.
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Old 07-11-2009, 11:16 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Got half of my christmas shopping done and out of the way, just a few more bits to get done, all of it online.

I only go to the shops if I need to.
It seems like more and more people are going the same way as you, I mean it makes sense, cheaper prices, no trawling about the shops that are packed out during christmas.

But yet I still prefer to walk into a shop
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Re: Do you order online or are you oldskool?

I get as much as possible online nowadays but I love going to the city centre around christmas, its very christmasy
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Old 07-11-2009, 11:22 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Re: Do you order online or are you oldskool?

For clothes I definitely stick to shops. I purchased a shirt online once which was the first time I ordered any clothing online and didn't look anything like the picture so sent it back.

Unless it was the exact item of clothing I had seen in a shop I probably wouldn't bother.

Parents do food shopping instore.

Apart from that, everything else is online for me. Even my Dad is starting to buy tools from Amazon. He found some great bargains recently which he is well chuffed about!
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Re: Do you order online or are you oldskool?

If I can do it online (yes you can make jokes ), I can. But sometimes, instore is better
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Re: Do you order online or are you oldskool?

If its cheaper and easier then I'll order it online

If i can get it straight away in the shops then im happy to.

I see arguments for both sides really
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Old 07-11-2009, 11:42 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Re: Do you order online or are you oldskool?

For something that needs fitting (Clothing, footwear etc) In-store is better.. but online has more choices and less hassle, no chavs or 15yr olds with pushchairs pushing their way past!
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Re: Do you order online or are you oldskool?

Online all the way for me unless its something i absolutely have to have there and then!

Clothes, shoes, trainers etc will always be bought instore.
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Re: Do you order online or are you oldskool?

I had to be in London yesterday, and yuk Oxford street is such a horrible place. Don't get why people flock there since each and every store can be found in each town in the uk...But hey ho...

Anyway as I was at Grosvenor square I though I pop in to look for a coat I wanted....Didn't have the size in the store...So I ordered it online from the same store in the size I wanted, utilising 4% Quidco cashback and a 15% discount voucher...Neither of which could be used in the store...

And yes all our supermarket food comes from Ocado, supplemented by fresh elements from two local farm shops....
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Re: Do you order online or are you oldskool?

Online It is much cheaper and you can get quidco too! :D
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I'd rather gnaw my leg off than traipse around shops. Wherever possible, I let the keyboard do the work. Anything else, well that's what I employ a wife for. I'll get my coat.....
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Re: Do you order online or are you oldskool?

Hate shopping, done 90% of all my shopping online since 97 when choice wasn't anywhere near what there is now. The internet was a dream come true for a recluse like me. I still know people who won't buy off the net regardless of price.
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Re: Do you order online or are you oldskool?

I bought my house online
... well not really, but it all came down to receiving and reading an email after subscribing online to a particular agent's mailing list

Almost everything that involves me parting with my cash has an online element
- learning of various "instore" bargains, financial/money-saving tips, banking and utilities virtually 100%, home/auto insurance 100% (especially since Quidco ).

Prefer not to purchase normal food online as I'm one of those obsessives about freshness and a resonable SBD/UBD/BBD (always grab items towards the back of the shelf ) which I wouldn't trust a shop-employed picker with .... but occasional special provisions or vino, I certainly have.

Clothing - usually grab quality bargains galore from US trips and outlets at Bicester Village and Braintree Freeport.

If it saves time and money (after Quidco cashback ) but doesn't compromise on quality it's a no-brainer for me.
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Re: Do you order online or are you oldskool?

I went through a long period of buying pretty much everything online but after increasing amount of faff with deliveries, delays and problems with broken stuff I mostly stopped buying online some time ago and now I'll buy from a shop if I can, unless it's really, really cheap online. But even then I'll mostly just decide to live without it - a lot of the stuff I bought online I only bought because it was cheap, most of it was stuff I didn't need and I still have a huge pile of dvds I haven't watched from that period.

For me a lot of the benefit was that it 'felt' hassle-free somehow, that I didn't have to go into town and face crowds in overheated shops, not just that it was cheap. I started finding that I was looking at stuff online and wondering "if I order it when will I get it, will it be the right thing, how will they deliver and will I have to go to a depot to pick it up, will it be in one piece, how much agro will it be to send back?"... and then I'd just decide I didn't really want whatever it was anyway. A few times I also found I'd order something, say Dark Knight on DVD cheap, it would turn up in a bit of a state and then within a few weeks it was cheaper in one of the sales in town.
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