Amazon Is 25 This Week

[Buenchico]

What did we all do before Amazon existed?

This article, from my local rag, might be of interest to some people, only if to find out how dog-friendly the company is!

https://www.eadt.co.uk/ea-life/25-years-since-first-amazon-sale-1-6751553

[Gromit]

I have been a member for 19 years, they tell me.

I resisted at first wanting to support my local independent record shop. But the shop was carp.
They gave up on me before I gave up on them.
So I started using Amazon and it was just great. Since then I have seen the Virgin Record Store, HMV and numerous independent stores go out of business.

[Gromit]

Same with Waterstones. I used to like going to their store. But I would see that a book I wanted was published this week, so go to their store this week, next week, the week after and it wasn’t in. Finally ordering a copy and wait another fortnight.
Amazon, you often got the book before the date it was officially out.

[Buenchico]

Most of the music I buy, Gromit, is in the form of world music CDs from charity shops (where I'll often take a chance of buying something from a band or a singer that I've never heard of), so I don't buy much music from Amazon.

However I do buy quite a lot of DVDs of French cinema from Amazon, as it's often difficult to find it elsewhere (other than my favourite DVD store which, as it's located close to the Pompidou Centre in Paris, is never short of French movies!)

I do still use Waterstone's physical stores though and it'll usually be their website (rather than Amazon's) that I look to when buying books as gifts. (That's because of the way that they make it easy to find, say, books for teenagers)

[wolf63]

I bulk buy my Pepsi Max on Amazon, it works out cheaper than Tesco and Amazon are the ones who have to lug it up all the stairs.

I use them a lot and the service has always been good.

[Gromit]

I buy new CDs from Amazon.
It is usually cheaper than buying downloads from iTunes.
I instantly rip the music into my iTunes library, and never actually play the CD I have bought in a CD Player.

[sherrardk]

I love Amazon - I share Amazon family with boy #1 so he gets free delivery to his uni address. Girl reads piles of books and I get a couple of deliveries a week (even before all this virus stuff I got all my stuff delivered) - worth every penny of the £7.99 a month.

[Buenchico]

I can't see Amazon Prime ever being of much use to me, Sherr, but it clearly is to you, so it's good to know that some people find it to be of value (particularly as Amazon has some rather sneaky ways of trying to get people signed up to it!)

[Gromit]

Buenchico
My ISIHAC archive was recorded from live streams on my Mac using ‘Audio Hijack‘ then converted to mp3. And then written to CD.
You can often buy a 20 track CD from Amazon that costs £6. On iTunes that is 20 x 99p.

[sherrardk]

Buenchico - I live in the Middle Ages (seriously, for a city Hereford is v old fashioned), I hate shopping (being amongst people) and someone always needs something. For the cost of parking or the bus (and my sanity), the £7.99 is excellent value and the kids (mainly boy #1) benefit too - I think it’s excellent value (haven’t used their tv stuff yet as I got Netflix for everyone because of lockdown - another excellent value for money service, one of the few times we’ve benefited from there being lots of us).

[Buenchico]

Ooh! I see that a super-fussy fellow moderator has been removing posts here! (It was only the use of the s-word, with the letters re-arranged, by one member and my subsequent quoting from his post that seemed to have caused offence. That word's heard so often these days that, were I still teaching, I wouldn't rebuke a kid for using it. Indeed, I'd happily use it myself in front of kids these days).

I can't recall ever visiting Hereford, Sherr. (If I have done so, it would only have been when collecting a car to deliver from an industrial estate or the like, so I wouldn't have seen thre centre of it anyway). However I've always thought of it as possibly a rather sleepy little town. (Yes, I do know that it's actually a cathedral city but, with a population of just 56,000, I tend to think of it more as a 'town' than a 'city'). The official website seems to concentrate more on the history of the place than on any great element of modernity too. ( https://www.visitherefordshire.co.uk/explore/Hereford-area.aspx ). There seems to be no mention of the shopping facilities at all!

So, although I'd like to explore Hereford for myself one day, I can understand why you might prefer to use Amazon!

[Jackdaw33]

I was based at RAF Hereford, at Credenhill, 6 miles from the centre. I used to love going into the city. All the people seemed so friendly. This was back in the 60s. The RAF station, which was a major training station, is no longer there. I think the SAS took it over.

[sherrardk]

Jackdaw - that’s where I live

[Buenchico]

Sherardk will know that place well, JD33. As I understand it (from her previous posts) her house is right next to the base, with the SAS choppers being a frequent sight (and sound) there.

The base is now called Stirling Lines, although that sounds more like a shipping company than an army base to me!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling_Lines

[Buenchico]

Crossed posts, Sherr!

[THECORBYLOON]

CHRIS, speaking in general terms and not about specific deleted posts, the SPARE ED telt another user, "I want you to not disguise swear words in your questions or answers. This is a family friendly website."

[Buenchico]

Rather like 'bloody', I no longer consider s___ to be a swear word these days, TCL. It's just part of everyday language for me and most other people I know.

[emmie]

i use them quite a lot, as i don't really get to the shops any more, and its convenient to order on line.

[LadyCG]

I never knew that, JD. I spent much of my youth in Credenhill, having moved to Tupsley from Aldershot in 1980.

My friends and I used to love the woods up Credenhill.