Online Shopping?

[cheifo]

I don't own a credit card, it would be like giving a madman an axe.
Just wondering do many of you shop online?What type of stuff do you buy, and is it cheaper?
BTW on the recommendation of people here, I am going to buy The Wire season one and two online(I will pay credit card holder).Amazon the best place?

[GavinZac]

amazon is very good. ebay is always an option too, would be fairly reliable for DVDs and such.

[Paddyfield]

It depends what you are buying.

Quality clothes (such as Levis 501 jeans for €22) delivered to your door from USA based www.jcp.com who own a chain of department stores. We also bought lots of baby clothes there too.

Discounted ink for your printer from Irish company www.inkjet.ie

[micls]

Id mostly buy books online. They'd be a fair bit cheaper when buying a good few alright

[noby]

Amazon is great for second-hand (as new) cds, and probably dvds too. There's a standard postage rate, which gives it an edge over e-Bay's profit making postage rates.

[TonyD]

I don't own a credit card, it would be like giving a madman an axe.
Just wondering do many of you shop online?What type of stuff do you buy, and is it cheaper?
BTW on the recommendation of people here, I am going to buy The Wire season one and two online(I will pay credit card holder).Amazon the best place?

I bought Season 3 & 4 of the Wire ( and lots of other CD's DVDs) on Play.com
it's usually pretty good. Mostly a lot cheaper than HMV/Tower. (Major treat in store for you btw if you haven't seen the Wire yet.)

[thischarmingman]

Amazon is great for second-hand (as new) cds, and probably dvds too. There's a standard postage rate, which gives it an edge over e-Bay's profit making postage rates.

Seconded.

[Dodge]

CD wow (http://www.cdwow.ie) is pretty good. Cheap and accept laser. A ffew years ago I ordered a DVD and it never turned up. They sent out a replacement within a week, no questions asked

Mrs Dodge has bought a fair amount of clothes etc from US sites. The weak dollar more than makes up for postage costs.

[ramsfan]

amazon and ebay are great, if you shop online in american sites there is some great deals especially with dollar rate at mo but be careful to read small print as usa goods sometimes incur vat which is payable to dhl when he arrives at door

only downside to ebay is cost of post and packaging

[Magicme]

My son ordered a cover for his iPod Touch online on Monday nite and it arrived this morning. Thats fast!

I used to do a lot of shopping on CD wow and found them really easy to deal with.

[pete]

Given the recent rant by one of the government Ministers about traveling to NI for shopping I guess will be even less pleased with online shopping.

Press conference chastising Magicme for encouraging this on its way soon. :p

Has any one bought something online from Ireland. Seems to me almost all online shopping is abroad?

[osarusan]

Has any one bought something online from Ireland. Seems to me almost all online shopping is abroad?

I tried to buy a rugby shirt from an Irish seller on ebay. He said he'd sent it, and when I contacted him over its non-arrival, he apologised and said he'd send it again. From that point on I heard nothing from him, but it had gone over some 60-day limit so I couldn't leave feedback.

Luckily I had his email address, so I found some of the most graphic gay porn sites I could find and subscribed him to a daily update. It's just a shame it was a freemail address, and not a work one.

[brendy_éire]

Has any one bought something online from Ireland. Seems to me almost all online shopping is abroad?

Got some GAA stuff from the O'Neill's site a while back. Also bought a phone off someone from Limerick on eBay. No problems.

[John83]

You probably already know, but DVDs are regionalised - most players won't play DVDs from outside of Europe. Look for "Region 2". It's possible your player is regionless, or can be made that way easily enough, but if you don't know, stick with region two disks.

I use Amazon a lot for books and DVDs, and a bunch of different sites for clothes. Is it cheaper? Sometimes. You can look out for bargains, but the typical margin isn't huge unless you're getting 2nd hand stuff.

[cheifo]

Online marketing will claim close to 10% of national advertising spend in 2010 according to a couple of recent articles.
Apparantly, we are a few years behind some of our European neighbours in this regard because of our problem with rolling out Broadband nationwide.
As Pete mentioned , we don't really hear of Irish websites being used too often.
Bkg flights is proably the main exception.

[pete]

As Pete mentioned , we don't really hear of Irish websites being used too often. Bkg flights is probably the main exception.

Flights is probably the only Irish online purchase I make in Ireland. eBay while having an Irish site isn't really an Irish online retailer. Are Irish online retailers so few because of small country or because low levels of broadband? How do other small countries fare?

[GavinZac]

Flights is probably the only Irish online purchase I make in Ireland. eBay while having an Irish site isn't really an Irish online retailer. Are Irish online retailers so few because of small country or because low levels of broadband? How do other small countries fare?

Nothing to do with infrastructure, you don't think about broadband when setting up a company. The infrastructure is there, for example the CIX place adam works with. Its about innovation and venture capital. We're short on both.

[osarusan]

Nothing to do with infrastructure, you don't think about broadband when setting up a company.
But surely you do when you are setting up an online retailer, like Pete said?

[Billsthoughts]

I would have thought you didnt need a super fast connection for shopping online, no?

[gustavo]

Luckily I had his email address, so I found some of the most graphic gay porn sites I could find and subscribed him to a daily update. .

Thats what you told the wife when she found the site anyway :p

[John83]

I would have thought you didnt need a super fast connection for shopping online, no?
No. It can't hurt though.