What was the first thing you ever bought on amazon?

[TellingBone]

Was looking for something in 'your orders' and idly clicked the drop-down box to look at previous orders by year.

Mine: 2001 - The Deeper Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams et al

Confucius From The Heart.

I was thinking about Amazon the other day, is my memory failing me or did it only used to sell books? Is that what it started out as? Or has it always sold every single thing under the sun you could possibly want?

2000. The Naked Chef cook book.

shaun of the Dead DVD and a Nick Cave CD in 2004

Two sets of Jolly Phonics books in October 2006.

Fuck me

The Only Way is Essex: Official guide to living life the Essex way

Ordered April 2011 🤣🤣🤣

Dec 2005, a little Sony digital camera and a DVD of Peep Show.

Both Christmas presents for DH. How technology has moved on. We don't even have a DVD player any more.

@Rainbowdino

Fuck me

The Only Way is Essex: Official guide to living life the Essex way

Ordered April 2011 🤣🤣🤣

That is reem

The second series of Rome on DVD, The New Granta Book of the American Short Story, and Midnight Cowboy on DVD. October and November 2007!

1999 Good omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman and The vampire Armand by Anne Rice. I also ordered a book called the anatomist that year. Then only one thing in 2000 - a book about how to grow orchids.

An adult-sized wookiee costume for my (very odd) boss - the utter nonsense we used to put up with. At least I wasn't the poor sod who had to wear the damn thing on camera for a client presentation. Anyway, I was very late to the Amazon party, as this would have been around 2013 or so.

Probably 2003 and some academic texts for pre-reading for my PGCE.

I remember having to go across the road to the internet cafe in a hotel to do it and it was a weekly habit for checking my emails.

In 2000 I ordered Scrambled Eggs Super - Dr Suess.

That's the one they are no longer publishing although even 20 years ago you couldn't get it here easily in the UK (because of the nest stealing) and I think my very first amazon order therefore came from their US site.

2008 wire cupcake tree

2005 Orchard Games Pirate Snakes and Ladders and Ludo

Oh interesting!

I bought Spooks season 5 on dvd in 2007

@notmethenwho

Confucius From The Heart.

I was thinking about Amazon the other day, is my memory failing me or did it only used to sell books? Is that what it started out as? Or has it always sold every single thing under the sun you could possibly want?

They only sold books at the start. Then they started selling CDs, DVDs and Computer Games And slowly built up to everything

2005 Charlie's Angels DVD

The best of mrs beetons larder in June 2008

2009 - iPod speaker

2010 - I only ordered electronic stuff - external hard dives, PlayStation game for DH, a digital camera
2011 - mostly books but some other things creeping in.
2012 - apparently nothing
2013, 2014 and 2015 is about 80% books, 10% gifts and 10% random crap.
Then after that it’s about 50% books and 50% random crap

This book all the way back in 2005! www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0752809881/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apap_HBpW3dKfSnRFf?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

2003 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix!

Then it’s a whole 2 years til my next order of a book for uni (that I still have and use at work regularly!).

Dec 2002, a Toshiba multi region DVD player.

20Q electronic game in 2006

Xmas present books for DM and DF, Christmas of 1999. Only a couple of things a year for the first five years or so, because I’ve always lived and worked close to physical bookshops, then a big binge for a couple of years, and then a reduction again as I made a concerted attempt to use physical shops which pay UK taxes wherever possible.

March 2005 incredible string band cds. Through while of 2005 and 2006 only cds. Then 2007 an iPod speaker then all sorts !