25 August 2006

Top 10 list for online shopping

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I am running a “Buying and Selling on the Internet” class at Hawker College. For our last class, I wanted to produce a Top 10 list for online shopping. My list is below, would love comments and other sites.

  • 1. www.ebay.com.au – everything
  • 2. www.amazon.com – great gift wrapping service
  • 3. www.dola.com.au – Canberra’s Online Auctions
  • 4. www.bestflights.com.au – amazing travel deals (no really an e-shop)
  • 5. www.wotif.com.au – discounted/last minute hotels
  • 6. www.cdbaby.com – great alt music
  • 7. www.lulu.com – weird and wonderful self published everything
  • 8. http://stores.ebay.com.au/phantom-wines – my favourite clean skins wine
  • 9. www.pickles.com.au – buy a car @ live auction from your PC
  • 10. www.cafepress.com – weird and wonderful t-shirts
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    csfgibson said :

    the best new online store i have come across is http://ezyelectronics.com.au. there product range is crazy big. i don’t get how these stores just pop up.

    overstock outlet is one that has regular contact with the manufacturers, ezy electronics do the same. grays online are always good for a look too.

    Danman said :

    Dola is pretty ordinary – 1/2 the auctions look like someone trying to resell wares purchased at trash and treasure on a frosty sunday morn

    That could be the stuff they get from various storage facilities when people don’t pay up.

    Some of the stuff they get from liquidations are good. A couple of years ago they had books from Angus and Robertson which they sold in lots of 5 and 10. Good value at the time.

    I use http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/ in preference to Amazon – they offer free (and fast) shipping which really tips the balance

    http://www.etsy.com/ has got an insane amount of cool stuff (all handmade) and can keep you browsing for hours

    the best new online store i have come across is http://ezyelectronics.com.au. there product range is crazy big. i don’t get how these stores just pop up.

    http://www.buyena.com and http://www.ozebaby.com.au for environmental cloth nappies
    http://www.treasuresforangels.com.au for scrapbooking supplies
    A lot of baby & kids online forums also have trading rooms eg Essential Baby, Natural Parenting, Nappycino.

    Absent Diane4:25 pm 28 Aug 06

    my bro owns a Les Paul Classic – limited edition as well i think (bought from namm)… and yes superb tone!

    Um they say that they have to work harder to play instruments well???? 😛

    Start an online petition for getting a new guitar.. then show your fiancee

    Fie on your Les Paul, I say! Too heavy, clunky, cheap-feeling machinery, over-dark pickups and characterless tonality.

    ES’s are okay, I suppose.

    You know what they say about small hands dont you AD 😛

    PS how do I hire you guys to propaganda my fiancee into my line of thinking ?

    Absent Diane12:46 pm 28 Aug 06

    I find gibsons play beautifully and sound excellent BUT being blessed with smaller hands… I tend to need a smaller neck.

    There is no such thing as enough music gear full stop…

    Rather like CD’s – you never look at your guitar collection and think “No. No more. That’s enough.”

    Perish the thought, alright. Gibsons are rubbish 😉

    yeah – my list of options has been reduced to pretty much ebay and cash converters (you already have 2 guitars – why do you want another one) – looks like I am going to have to crack out that buy dan a Les paul Studio hypnotherapy tape again.

    Pfft try convincing a non muso what 3 different guitars are for – not easy – perish the thought should I want a Gibson Zak Wylde custom.

    Absent Diane10:19 am 28 Aug 06

    if it plays nicely (and is aesthetically pleasing) then yeah 849 is dirt cheap..

    whose top ten list is this? yours? if so, why are you asking others?

    if it’s meant to be an objective top ten list, why are you asking a small community like riotact?

    there are plenty of sites i use for online purchases, and none are featured on this list. but by the same token, i would not be teaching my class that my favourite sites are in any way the best.

    I own a samick 20 dollar steel string acoustic – funnily enough purchased at Trash and Treasue on a frosty sunday morn about 2 years ago.
    I also have a maton steel string semi ( that does not go camping ) and looking for a new electric – solid wood – quilted red maple top = floating trem and warm tone. I found one for 849 and I thought that was cheap – fiancee dont think so 🙁

    Absent Diane4:15 pm 25 Aug 06

    omg – that is like the ultimate nightmare for a muso!! at least if you had of smashed it gigging, it would have been an honorable death!!

    hmmm did get my car on all classifieds
    most of my partner’s and I recent presents to each other were off ebay
    get my wine off the net too http://www.getwinesdirect.com/
    I really am quite lazy!

    Absent Diane3:14 pm 25 Aug 06

    very nice… have had the opportunity to play a couple special edition music man’s in the last few weeks.. have been thinking of pissing off going to my mates wedding in poland next year and buying something new shiney… its just torture…

    allhomes.com.au

    Also various sites for babyclothes, envirnomental cloth nappies and maternity wear are very popular.

    haha, great website Thumper!
    I get my feminist literature from: braless.com
    adventure maps from: fearless.com
    and the daily tv guide from: mindless.com

    Dola is pretty ordinary – 1/2 the auctions look like someone trying to resell wares purchased at trash and treasure on a frosty sunday morn

    Cameron – bump what down a few notches?

    If that list is in order I’d bump down a few notches.

    and for grog: legless.com

    for tshirts: threadless.com

    Absent Diane11:00 am 25 Aug 06

    gotta love the evil bay

    my wife has discovered ebay, pity…

    http://www.thinkgeek.com

    Loads of weird stuff to waste money on. The “Cube Warfare” section is neat.

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