(no subject)

[blahflowers]

Anyone know any good sites for Christmas present ideas? Most of my family are stubbornly without much by way of interests, I don't want to just get them all DVD sets. New Scientist do have their No More Socks site, but it is obviously techy based and short on ideas.

Comments

[spyinthehaus.livejournal.com]

Yes - shopping online does have a crack-like tendency to escalate... mind you, I find that with Switch as well. On the other hand, your representative at Borders is about as likely to have a personal opinion of a purchase to impart as Amazon.

I was chatting to a marketing person at Faber the other day, and she said that Amazon is used far more for research than for actual purchases, which I can well believe...

Anyway, to the enquiry. For my father, I often go for http://iwantoneofthose.com, http://www.firebox.com. http://www.lastminute.com actually does occasionally have some cool stuff... I aim to browse http://www.libertas.co.uk for various people... Actually, I am hopelessly udnerprepared for Christmas even on a conceptual level. Oooh bollocks.

[ill-prezidante.livejournal.com]

True enough, the cashier at Borders, or wherever I choose to distribute my beer tokens, is unlikely to have any bearing on my purchasing habits, unless they in some fashion serve as an annoyance. But I still identify that transaction far better than copying numbers and words into a box and then waiting 8-10 days for delivery. Where's the intimacy of that?

Actually I say delivery, in reality I have to wait for a notice to be delivered to my house inviting me to come to Peckham's Royal Mail Distribution Office at a mutually inconvenient time to make efforts to convince some stoppy overtimer that I am entitled to receive the goods that I have rightfully purchased.

I guess I also appreciate the immediacy of the retail outlet. I can casually stroll into Zwemmers and three or four small pieces of paper later I can exit with a hefty tome of glossy pages before initiating some quality photo time curled up on a leather couch in Nero. I guess I could pack-horse the latest half a ton of Yves Bertrand-Arhus into the C-Zone but I somehow suspect that it wouldn't be the same.

[bearo.livejournal.com]

Well it's usually only 2 days with Amazon but I know what you mean, it's much nicer to be able to walk around a shop picking up things and having a quick look.

Now I want to go shopping I wonder what time that 2nd hand book shop in Brixton closes?

[oilrig.livejournal.com]

I'm finding the (lack of) delivery part the most annoying/frustrating. Far to many letters and parcels lost by an incompetent and uncaring post office recently to rely on online purchasing at the mo.

[bearo.livejournal.com]

I totally agree with the Amazon thing, I'm actually using it at the moment to try and find some books which I can then add to my wish list so I can remember to pick them up next time I'm in town.

Online shop can be very addictive due to the not having to hand over actual money part.