Oh God! It's just to easy isn't it? It doesn't even seem real. Three clicks of a mouse and an other £15 debits it's self from your account.

Amazon, to me anyway, is kinda like someone tantilisingly swinging a £10 bag in front of a heroin addict. There's no possible way the pathetic scaghead can resist. Amazon are bad, bad people. They are taking advantage of the weak and the pitiful.

For the record I ordered this



Down and Out: The Sad Soul of the Black South

At least I'll have a soundtrack for when my bank statement arrives.

agreed. they keep taunting me and taunting me, carrying every damn release i'm looking for.

those baaaaaaaaaaaaastarrddddds!!!!!! leave me alone!!!!!!

just pre-ordered the new album from the coral.

I don't even go there anymore, it's too tempting...that buy with one click (three-clicks) is a killer

What gets me (and it's designed this way) is the "buy album" screen button on my launchcast station. Because it automatically refers comparison prices and I wind up going, hey this is only $9.99, I can afford it (pre-postage/handling, of course). Have gotten some great buys that way, but have also bought things when I didn't have any actual money to speak of.

I rarely buy from Amazon unless I get a good deal on a used disc. I just find it's the same price (after shipping) to run over to my local record store and I'd rather support them anyway.

Sometimes on Amazon you can get a good deal on used CD's from a seller that doesn't really know the value of what they've got.

Steve

Amazon is just too easy and convenient.

amazon, eh?

I just put in an order at Amazon for the first time ever. I generally don't like mail ordering things--I want them in my hand now! But I was ordering a digital camera for my father's birthday ($30 less than any store in my area, and I checked 7 or 8 of them), and figured I'd buy a few things I don't expect to find in stores very easily:


Brian Eno - Bell Studies for the Clock of the Long Now


Harold Budd - La Bella Vista


Shack - Here's Tom with the Weather


Skeeter Davis - The Pop Hits Collection

Has anybody had good or bad experiences buying used stuff through Amazon?

I've never had a bad experience. The thing is you've got to look at a seller's ratings from previous buyers. If the guy has a lifetime rating of 4.3(out of 5) he's fucked a whole bunch of people. Stick with the sellers who have been around awhile and have fairly spotless ratings.

Steve

amazon has always been betty betty good to me.

skeeter davis?!?
don't they-ay know...it's the end of the wor-orld?
you're killing me steve.

I've never bought used discs through them, but I have gotten some DAMN FINE book deals. W/ shipping and handling, you can get a trade papeback that list for $.75 for like $3.00.

no complaints with amazon's used department...I guess it depends on the vendor

Me!
Not that I'm gonna buy something for you or anything like that.

4.3 out of 5 is trouble?! Not a very wide spread that rating system's got! The used things I bought were all from 4.8's and 5's.



As well as I Can't Stay Mad at You! She crossed the country/pop borderline for a whole bunch of girl group-y sides in the early '60s.

This line just makes me crack up...

...but I have been very, very good. I am proud of myself.

haha! This very record is on my to-do list. I don't use Amazon though.

Try living 1.7 miles away from an Amoeba, talk about vices. I hardly ever left the San Francisco store without spending a cool $100, every single fucking time. I finally forced myself on to a three-week schedule.

np: The Magic Numbers – Misc.(thanks slsk, again)