[Closed] Your first ever on-line purchase?

you mean electronic?

online with was something off amazon while drunk

Two ballet books for Mrs SR for Christmas, 1997, from amazon.com.

We were living in the West Indies at the time, and had no access to anything.

I became a devotee of amazon after that.

EDIT: Oh, by e-purchase, did you mean something electronic? If so, then scratch what I said. I have no idea.

Probably porn, back in the mid 90s. 😳

How on earth do you remember? Is it an old person thing?

An Atari VCS, complete with a stack of games I bid for on eBay, paid for with a postal order. Quite a strange transaction really.

Import Gamecube games and Region 1 DVDs

A Thai bride

Absolutely no idea.

I think it might have been the first edition of "Amiga Forever" from Cloanto.

Anti-virus prog to get rid of the previous purchase's virus 😳

U2 Concert Tickets ( 😳 ) in Texas - 97ish I think. Even selected the seats - I was blown away that such a thing was possible.

A can of teargas and a tazer from guns2u.com - can't quite recall why I made that purchase but that is what I bought for the first time online.

Can't remember, but I'm pretty sure it would have been from Amazon and probably (and rather boringly) a book or CD.

Not 100% sure but my suspicion would be that it was a CD from CD-Wow, likely some bad late 90's indie.

I have absolutely no idea.

Absolutely no idea.

I have absolutely no idea.

This ^^^

Haven't a scooby.

First things I bought on amazon were:

ORDER PLACED
5 February 2004
Nineteen Eighty-four
George Orwell
£5.59

ORDER PLACED
20 February 2004
The Trial
Franz Kafka
£5.59
The Complete Stories
Franz Kafka, Franz and Glatzer Kafka (Editor)
£7.14

ORDER PLACED
20 February 2004
Project Gotham Racing 2 (Xbox)
£29.99

Fact i'd made 3 orders in quick succession is maybe an indication that I'd bought stuff before this online and was comfortable with online purchasing. No idea what came before these though... May well have been my first tentative steps into online purchasing, I've had broadband since 2001 though, and dial up before that, so I doubt it.

First Amazon order:

Do They Know It's Christmas? [SINGLE]
Band Aid 20

Ewan McGregor And Charley Boorman - Long Way Round [BOOK]

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2005 I lost my original account details.

Probably something off CRC or the Wooly hat shop. I remember when CRC used to be a phone call!

Probably something from Wiggle, when I used to go down there and collect over the counter. Its a big warehouse unit now, no personal visits allowed.

I remember my first online auction purchase was from the slightly outgunned QXL.com! I remember it well cos it was a DVD of the Jungle Book. Turned up and it was a fake, really bad quality rip, so I complained and got the seller kicked off 😆

I recall WorldPay starting to get big at the back end of the 90s, as we used them at work for a revolutionary online purchase thing. It was very unusual and cutting edge for the UK at the time.

Most shops were still big magazine adverts and phone up a hotline or email in the order details if they were really advanced.
I remember the big double page Chain Reaction spreads with tiny lists of components.

My CompuServe subscription was probably the first proper online order and it was well after 2000 when I started using Amazon for CDs and books.

Possibly my first gaming PC, a socket 133a (Thunderbird?) setup where I chose the parts and ccl online put it together for me for something like an extra £25, back in late 2000.

Assuming it was Amazon, it was:

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June 2000.

Couple of t shirts from a place in holland ,Rossi's nastro azura NSR colours & Doohans repsol Honda. 2000 , thin end of the wedge , spent a fortune since then 🙂

Bought form a forum from an american and I had to send a banker draft in dollars and never expected it to both turn up and be undamaged but it was

I reckon it was 95 or 96???

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Cracking album that JY. On vinyl it was always the default album cover for skinning up on

Actually, I think it might have been this.....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleem!

CDs from one of the popular discount sites. I was living in a shared house before I met Mrs PP so it must be 18-19 years ago now.
CD Universe was it..?

9 June 2012 from Amazon

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We had many happy times together, mostly shouting at it to blooming
well connect with that stupid dongle effort and cursing when it wouldn't upload.

I think it was a replacement motherboard and cpu for a PC. Pentium 166 or 233.

If it wasn't that, then it was a top of the range 20Mb compact flash card. Still have that. Tried it in my (now quite old) DSLR. It can save a whole 1 photo (probably RAW), and takes quite some time to save the image.

Was definitely sokett from CRC but no idea what.

Also this -

I remember when CRC used to be a phone call!

No idea, must be over 10 years ago now..

A saddle. They did not even take payment via the website. I think I had to get my mum to send a check. It was more of an online catalog.

Very early 2000s at a guess.

Not sure, but might have been an import or bootleg VHS of some film I couldn't get in the UK (no, not that kind of film 😀 ). Possibly bootleg of Clockwork Orange back when it was still banned. Would have been via a mailing list, pre-web early 90s. Send an email to order it and send cheque for payment.

Knowing me I've probably still got the email lying about on a 3.5" floppy somewhere 😀

Christ knows now, it was probably a CD, being able to buy something from America easily and cheaply, which had previously been almost impossible to get because of restrictions on 'imports' by the music industry was e proper deal-changer.
It's surprising just how much you still can't buy from the States, though; I wanted to get an Alupen, a fine-point stylus for use on my phone and tablet, but got a 'this product does not ship to the United Kingdom' message. WT actual F?
Weapons I can understand, but a sodding stylus? Whatever happened to free trade? 🙄
Sorry, just boils my piss at stupidity like this, seems such a retrograde step.

Great question, great thread. As per above probably a CD

Late 90's, I bought a Mini Disc portable player.

I'm fairly sure it was a Portishead hoodie from the band's website in the late 90's.

Earliest Amazon was 23rd January, 1999.

Neon Noir : Hardboiled Films and Fiction from the 1960's to the Present
Woody Haut

Rather highbrow for me. Second order included a Calvin and Hobbes book.

Could have been one of two things.

Either a Less Than Jake CD or a purple Perspex bong.

My memory is a bit hazy around that time for some reason.

I bought a computer in 1994. I saw it on computers.forsale.newsgroup?
It was being sold by a bloke in Reigate, all the other ads were from the states.

I think it was a Six Million Dollar man toy and a signed photo of the pop band Go West! (I was a best man and they were props for the speech.)

Dunno for sure. Probably an easyJet flight from London to Glasgow, back in the pre-Air Passenger Duty days when budget flights could be bought on a budget.

Bill Bryson 'Down under' back in July 2000! Amazon won't let me see any prior orders before 2000, and my memory is crap so I am going with that 😀