Do you buy JEWELRY from a retail store or online?
Would you buy a diamond online?
What Have You Purchased Thru The Internet?
by minimus 49 Replies latest jw friends
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restrangled
I Don't buy jewelry period! Over priced and gems especially are over rated! Had a friend who paid $16,000.00 for a diamond ring and fell into hard times looking to sell it. The top offer was $1500.00.
Now who in the H E double toothpick wants to invest like that?
Go to any pawn shop, invest in a magnifier for diamonds, and learn about quality. Some good bargains there if you know what you are doing.
r.
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lonelysheep
What don't I buy?! I don't like going to stores if I can help it. The only retail stores I still sometimes go to are those for makeup or books. Ok, ok, and I'm a Target junkie.
Online-Makeup, clothes, shoes, books, bags, XM, school books, candy, eBay, concert tickets and travel.
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I quit!
I buy things I can't find in the stores like my Mantis Tiller. I recently bought the Canadian TV series "Corner Gas" through Amazon because it isn't available in the US. If I want a book that Barnes & Noble or Borders would have to order for me I go to one of their websites and order it online. The price is almost always better online anyway.
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Dagney
Do you buy JEWELRY from a retail store or online?
Yes I would/do buy jewelry online. The large reputable online merchandisers (HSN,QVC,SHOPNBC) have 30 day return policy. There are other ones, Blue Nile and Red Envelope are two I can think of, that are high end and would probably be just fine. I ordered a pair of Moissanite earrings and somewhere during the shipment the package was slit and the case removed. I told HSN what happened and I was immediately credited...and it was $300 or so I think.
Would you buy a diamond online?
Again, I would from a reputable firm with a good return policy. You could have it appraised to verify your stone was what it was sold as. I know in the Jewelry market here in LA you have to be wary of buying diamonds there even in person, a bad scam there. If it's too good to be true, it probably is. I love the internet, and shopping online...cameras, PDA's...you name it!
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NanaR
Hey min,
Computer components -- New Egg rocks :-)
Wedding and birthday and baby and holiday presents for people who live out of town -- they can be delivered directly to the recipient.
Books -- can get them sent to work so hubby doesn't see them *wink* Also I have gotten copies of out of print books from the internet.
Software and computer games -- I download them and also order the backup CDs.
I also use online banking to pay all my household bills, check the status of my bank accounts, etc. I have paid my income taxes online for several years.
Ruth
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reneef
I have bought tons of stuff on Ebay and amazon.com. I have also bought air line tickets. I definitely prefer online shopping.
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greendawn
I can't see why you don't like on line shopping, its main advantage is that it offers the same goods usually at substantially lower prices than brick and mortar shops because online shops have much lower overheads. I bought a lot of things eg air tickets, digital camera and DVD recorder.
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GentlyFeral
I'm satisfied with nearly everything I've purchased over the Internet:
- Nearly all my wardrobe, size 2x and 3x
- Nearly all my jewelry, including rings size 10 and larger
- Several handbags, including a Sharif bag which I got for about half its retail price
- Software
- Most of my music collection (http://www.emusic.com)
- Food processor
- PalmPilot and folding keyboard
- Way too many bento boxes and accessories
- Way too many flavorings for soda (http://www.prairiemoon.biz/)
- Soda Club carbonator
- Most of the books we now own
- Most of the furnishings for three altars
- Spiritual supplies (http://www.LuckyMojo.com)
- Shoes (http://www.shoetrader.com -- free shipping and return shipping label with every order!)
Very few disappointments, mostly clothing when I was careless about the two rules I've set for myself:
- Never buy any item of clothing (on eBay) that is not clearly photographed
- Never buy any item of clothing whose measurements are not itemized in detail
Edited to add:
Yes, the Internet has definitely kept me away from retail stores -- I was in my late teens when I lost interest in windowshopping, wandering through stores to look at things that I did not need, did not particularly want at the moment, but might want some day. These days, I can only do that in boutiques I couldn't afford anyway. Except Daiso -- which I discovered online anyhow :-) It's been decades since I could wander through a store at random, fall in love with a dozen or so different items, and buy them without bankrupting myself.
For a woman as big as I am, clothes shopping is excruciating in 3-D. None of the attractive garments are in your size; nothing in your size is attractive. This seems to be true no matter what your taste in clothing -- but very few of the people who want tie-dye, or goth velvet, can find anything over size 16 :-( Even the "queen-size" fashion houses don't have much of that stuff -- but I can nearly always find something nice on eBay! You can't beat eBay for elegant clothes for large women!
EBay, in fact, is the site I go to first for most things. For some things, I do find better selection or price elsewhere -- shoes, for instance, at shoetrader.com (see above).
I guess it might be easier to list the things I do not/would not buy on line -- underwear, furniture, cars, perishable foodstuffs. Computers (maybe).
Come to think of it -- Safeway.com is a godsend when everybody in the house is too sick to go to the store.
gentlyferal
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GentlyFeral
Yes, I routinely buy jewelry online -- but not diamonds. So far, that's only because I don't particularly like diamonds or anything that resembles them. Over the years, I've spent a couple of hundred dollars (?) on silver jewelry with semi precious stones. Nearly all of it has been of excellent quality, and I don't believe any one piece cost more than $20.
If I were to become interested in diamonds, I doubt I would buy them online -- at first. Maybe after I had become really knowledgeable. Or not.
gently feral