KhunLA Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 Almost all non food shopping is online for us. Food, soaps, TP/PT is about it, from Makro. Appliances, electronic, toys/drones, RCs all online. Even if from Central or HomePro, bought online, and picked up locally (Homepro) or delivered, as discounted if buying online. Wife makes all my clothes, so can't think of what else I'd buy at brick & mortar. Only pop in for hands on, before ordering online ... ???? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vandeventer Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 27 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said: Sorry, I don't understand what you are complaining about. If online order is the only or cheapest possible way to get anything then the only alternative is not to order anything, or not? You remine me a lot of my first wife, never stops nagging. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itsari Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 Its only just got started Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DefaultName Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 I use Lazada a lot. I got fed up going round a store, being told "no hab" when I KNOW they hab! Sitting in my chair and browsing is so much easier, and with a better range too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spidermike007 Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 There are countless items I buy online here, that I cannot find retail. Alot of food products, such as dates, quinoa, supplements, organic rice cakes, etc., etc. The list is endless. And in the US I buy anything from razor blades, to electronics, to coolers, camping equipment, clothing (a Hugo Boss suit that is listed as used, was worn once, cost $800 new, and $80 on ebay, my favorite brand of shirts cost $275 new, worn once and it is $30), the list goes on. I save a fortune shopping online and it is convenient. Retail shopping is my last resort. Nearly always more expensive. Basic groceries and hardware is about all I buy retail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbko Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 3 hours ago, vandeventer said: Where I live you can't drive to a shop to get what you want, so online buying is my only choice for things I may want. So if you are buying 5 to 10 items a week and there is freight on each one, the freight adds up. Shouldn't that be "I (you) could drive to a shop to get what you want BUT the cost to get there makes it cheaper to buy online"? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrfill Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 It seems a mite extravagant to write off online shopping on the basis of a 20 day delivery time on a single book. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phetphet Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 3 hours ago, DefaultName said: I use Lazada a lot. I got fed up going round a store, being told "no hab" when I KNOW they hab! Sitting in my chair and browsing is so much easier, and with a better range too. Plus you don't get the staff following you around as if you are a shoplifter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Confuscious Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 21 hours ago, webfact said: I still prefer to go shopping and check out the items before parting with my money. Me too Too many scammers online (mostly Chinese). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Derek Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 I use it all the time, but it makes me feel like I'm living in E.M. Forster's story "The Machine Stops". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisP24 Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 29 minutes ago, Mr Derek said: I use it all the time, but it makes me feel like I'm living in E.M. Forster's story "The Machine Stops". Great reference. I have teenage kids, and have told one of them several times that the real world is not a place where everything you need or want just shows up on your doorstep with a couple of mouse clicks. They don't believe me and in a sense they may be right. But I want to raise them to see that as a luxury/convenience and not something they can be dependent on. That said, I think that online shopping is still in its infancy. It's just way too much more efficient than big box brick-and-mortar stores as a means of distributing products and connecting buyers and sellers at all levels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newbee2022 Posted April 4, 2023 Share Posted April 4, 2023 On 3/14/2022 at 1:02 PM, Peterphuket said: Even that, mijnheer vandeventer, if I order 10 times something with an average transport costs of 45 thb, it is only 450 thb in total, in the Netherlands you'll get only 1 product at home, for 450 thb. vandeventer is not Dutch. He's American, ran away to Australia and settled in Fang. He doesn't have any knowledge of Netherlands. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denim Posted April 4, 2023 Share Posted April 4, 2023 I shop online but never put money in Jef Bezos pocket or Mark Zuckerberg. Get anything I want on Lazada. No major issues yet. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianthainess Posted April 4, 2023 Share Posted April 4, 2023 On 3/14/2022 at 8:31 AM, sungod said: Wardrobe/furniture handles, needed 50 to replace in 2 bedrooms They must be a hell of a size Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterphuket Posted April 4, 2023 Share Posted April 4, 2023 4 hours ago, newbee2022 said: vandeventer is not Dutch. He's American, ran away to Australia and settled in Fang. He doesn't have any knowledge of Netherlands. Okay, you know more than me, a mistake from me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topt Posted April 4, 2023 Share Posted April 4, 2023 On 3/14/2022 at 11:51 AM, khunjeff said: Is it just me, or does "Michael Bridge" sound an awful lot like Dan About Thailand? ???? I think he originally joined to set up the specific "golf" section of the forums just before Covid but appears to have branched out - especially as the golf section seems to be in a bit of a coma..... Looks nothing like Dan and I think style is different. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henryford Posted April 4, 2023 Share Posted April 4, 2023 On 3/14/2022 at 10:06 AM, vandeventer said: It cost more with shipping but at least you can get want you want. Actually shipping costs here are very low, often free through Lazada. But i think many are subsidised by the CCP. If we had to pay full delivery costs maybe not so keen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mania Posted April 5, 2023 Share Posted April 5, 2023 (edited) On 3/13/2022 at 8:40 AM, webfact said: Has Online shopping had its day? It is BIG here in the USA as are most of the people ???? Don't get me wrong I use it a lot to buy things that are not available in this State for my hobbies etc But now what seems insane to me is for instance Target parking lot All the front rows of parking is reserved for drive thru order pickups Folks are actually ordering all their groceries & have Target workers go with a wagon & pick their items You give them X amount of time then go park in one of those spaces let them know order#xxx is here in space xxx & they come out & get this....they put it in your eco bags in your trunk etc. The drivers usually large women never get out of the dang car So for folks like us that do our own shopping now in the store is not crowded with customers much but always crowded with Target workers with their Giant red wagons speeding around doing multiple orders picking which their software consolidates etc. So if 10 shoppers want bananas they grab 10 bunches etc Restaurants? Same took my wife & daughter to a lunch yesterday at a Chinese restaurant...Ony one other table had people...While there at least 4-5 grab type drivers come in & pick up orders. Exceot here they use cars not scooters Stopped at a Starbucks same things...a wall with ready to pickup coffee cups segregated by sections for the phone in folks....I mean where is the pleasure in that? So yeah I do buy things online that I can't get locally or even used things from Ebay etc but this new wave of online everything is taking some already fat lazy people & turning them into real Jabba the Hun's Edited April 5, 2023 by mania Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FritsSikkink Posted April 6, 2023 Share Posted April 6, 2023 On 3/14/2022 at 10:42 PM, Confuscious said: Me too Too many scammers online (mostly Chinese). Good luck running about with loads of (water) bottles, rice and other heavy stuff. I rather get it delivered at my door. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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