Are you an Amazon junkie?

Orders per month from your household?

  • More than ten per month

    Votes: 10 32.3%

  • 5-10

    Votes: 13 41.9%

  • 0-5

    Votes: 8 25.8%
  • Total voters
    31
Pirate Lady said:
Honestly. Some site been advertising old school stilletos for $25 on FB, beautiful knives. I ordered one, what the heck, every one said its a scam, well it showed up and was as perfect as advertised. So i ordered one for my son and it also showed up. He loves it. I just ordered a 3rd. It look sketchy but its really real. These things are solid, quality, amazing, old school Italian stilletto knoves. Not everything is is scam. View attachment 149538
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Pirate, are the knives shown in photo spring loaded? You know, the kind where you push the button and the blade flips out? If so, please send me a link. Thanks
 
Pirate Lady said:
Honestly. Some site been advertising old school stilletos for $25 on FB, beautiful knives. I ordered one, what the heck, every one said its a scam, well it showed up and was as perfect as advertised. So i ordered one for my son and it also showed up. He loves it. I just ordered a 3rd. It look sketchy but its really real. These things are solid, quality, amazing, old school Italian stilletto knoves. Not everything is is scam. View attachment 149538
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SKybolt said:
Not a formal knife guy, but I remember as you do. Stiletto is spring loaded with blade going straight out the front and the switch blade flipped out. The old movie West Side Story also remembers it that way. But it seems a stiletto is only a long slender blade, mostly known as a dagger.

From the wiki: Over time, the term stiletto has been used as a general descriptive term for a variety of knife blades exhibiting a narrow blade with minimal cutting surfaces and a needle-like point, such as the U.S. V-42 stiletto. In American English usage, the name stiletto can also refer to a switchblade knife with a stiletto- or bayonet-type blade design. The term may also describe any exaggeratedly thin and pointed feature, such as a stiletto heel.
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Knife up Gentleman.
@Pirate Lady Got me started.
 
Like Ollie, we are rural, 45 miles to nearest walmart, 2 hours to nearest lowes, 4 hours to nearest boat store. We support local stores, but in a town of 1000, not many stores to chose from. So we do use Amazon quite a bit, nice kind of having a one stop shop. My daughter and SIL bought our local hardware/Lumber Yard last year, so we do buy everything we can from them.
 
Amazon is great for stuff you can't get local. I try hard to support our local stores, as said earlier, the prices are about the same. I manage a local marine store, part time. I price based on on line competitors. I get customers that have the guts to stand in our isles and price shop on line, makes me sick. I can't tell you how many times that customer says "wow, you are less than Amazon" For those of you that only go to Lowes etc. when you got to have something, in the near future they won't be there because ya did not shop there enough.
 
MrHappy said:
View attachment 149558 2023 Indy 500. We were on worldwide TV during the National Anthem. I am proud to say we have been on worldwide TV 11 times at the Indy 500 and a few times at the Michigan 500.

I order a lot of stuff on Amazon. Probably average one a week. I do check prices locally before I look at Amazon.

But another way I save money is because of Kroger fuel points.

You say what?

Kroger has digital coupons where if you buy a gift card you get four times fuel points. So for example I bought an 12’ x 18’ American flag for $500. I bought an Amazon gift card for $500. And received 2000 fuel points.

For every thousand points you get a dollar off per gallon up to 35 gallons.

So a $500 gift card gets me to $70 off in gas.

Sometimes we will take two or three cars. Or I have a bunch of 5 gallon gas cans. Kroger is only a mile away.
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Love me some Kroger. Bought their stock about 12 years ago after I started shopping there. I get up to .50 cents off a gallon of fuel sometime from my points. I pretty much use them exclusively now for online grocery shopping.
 
SKybolt said:
Dam, ok, you don't have to yell.

Search "honda lawn mower" at lowes.com instead of a general google search and you will only find craftsmen lawn mowers. Either that or my browser doesn't like Honda. But nothing Honda comes up except ancillary stuff, like a leaf vac and their generator etc.

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Yep. Companies and Google are really good at SEO (search engine optimization) to drive you to their site based on keywords. They purchase results from Google to be placed at the top of the search results so you click over, even when they don't actually offer what you've searched.

Similar with LinkedIn, for those that use it. Slots for promoted posts (those that show up on your feed via metrics in your profile vs. organic posts from your network) are auctioned off. At the end of the month when more advertisers want more boost, it costs more. That is, a $100 spend at the beginning of the month might get you 1000 impressions, and that same $100 at the end of the month might get you 100. Keeping up with the ever-changing social media algorithms is a full-time job - one I left to the corporate SM team.
 
bahamabreisus said:
Amazon is great for stuff you can't get local. I try hard to support our local stores, as said earlier, the prices are about the same. I manage a local marine store, part time. I price based on on line competitors. I get customers that have the guts to stand in our isles and price shop on line, makes me sick. I can't tell you how many times that customer says "wow, you are less than Amazon" For those of you that only go to Lowes etc. when you got to have something, in the near future they won't be there because ya did not shop there enough.
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I feel generally the same way. If I can get it at my local Ace or West Marine - or even Home Depot - I often will. I've found recently that many West Marine prices are on par with Amazon. When if WM is a little more I'll buy from them. My biggest issue with WM has been their historical lack of inventory. My local store just hasn't kept stuff in stock after the spring. They have a new manager that's actually knows what he's doing and is doing a bang-up job of keeping stuff in stock, on the shelves, and not stacked on the tops. For example, they had like 10 years worth of kayaks and downriggers that he sent out.

A really great thing about Amazon is you know when you're going to get it, often next day. They've got a huge competitive advantage in their logistics systems which is hard to beat and makes a real difference. In terms of our orders, it depends on the season. Sometimes we order a lot, sometimes 1 or 2 per month. My wife and I try to combine orders to reduce boxes and trucking-related impacts.

Someone said Amazon has set a high bar, and they have. I ordered some Mustang parts from a new company because what I needed wasn't available elsewhere. The checkout, update, delivery, and return experience was not nearly on the Amazon level, or even the CJ Pony level. I think CJ Pony Parts is doing a lot of things very well, too. When the Mustang side ornaments I ordered arrived damaged, they wanted a pic. Then they said don't bother shipping them, have fun destroying them and sent a other confirmation pic. Got my refund the same day.
 
Where I live, I have very little reason to online shop. Within a 4 mile radius of my house, I have Target, Meijer, Kroger, Lowe's, Kohls, Home Depot, a shopping mall, Duluth Trading and plenty more. I have a big outlet mall about 15 miles away and a Cabela's maybe 6 miles. I have no excuse to need to shop online. Restaurants? Got em all. It's the major reason a picked a sub near the M-59 corridor.
 
Amazon is just so convenient, right? I think my family easily hits double digits in orders each month. It's like a one-stop-shop for everything!
Speaking of online shopping, have you checked out Temu Clothes? They've got some cool stuff, and I've heard good things about their service. Might be worth a look for your next fashion fix!
 
Living out away from those pesky cities means I am constantly awaiting packages from Amazon.
 
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