What’s the last thing you bought online?

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  • NeonNomad
    NeonNomad Online Community Member Posts: 13 Contributor
    I recently bought a new pair of wireless earbuds online. They're super convenient for workouts and calls on the go. I went for a brand with good reviews and a solid battery life, and they've been working great so far.
  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 8,515 Scope Online Community Coordinator
    Frog tadpoles, toad spawn and newt eggs. 

    I really do order some odd stuff online...
  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 14,987 Championing
    @Albus_Scope

    Ha ha, what would you say is the weirdest thing you've ever ordered online?
  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 8,515 Scope Online Community Coordinator
    Oh, there's a particular thing I've ordered online that was actually for a fish tank, but the medication in question is usually used for humans, for a certain...um...issue some people can get after doing rude things.  :D 
  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 14,987 Championing
    @Albus_Scope

    :o Ha ha ha
  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 14,987 Championing
    @JessieJ that sounds like a good buy! Most robot vacuums I've seen are in the high hundreds.

    I've heard if you have a robot vacuum you still do need to do a "proper" hoover every month or so but that's better than doing it every couple of days.
  • JessieJ
    JessieJ Online Community Member Posts: 760 Pioneering
    66Mustang said:
    @JessieJ that sounds like a good buy! Most robot vacuums I've seen are in the high hundreds.

    I've heard if you have a robot vacuum you still do need to do a "proper" hoover every month or so but that's better than doing it every couple of days.

    At the moment, I think it's a good buy, @66Mustang, but I haven't emptied it yet! ;) I have it set as a routine with Alexa, I say good morning & off it goes, along with my other routines. First time trying it this am & it worked.

    Anything is better than how things were working out & I won't mind so much, asking relies to run the hoover around very occasionally.
  • Lou67
    Lou67 Online Community Member Posts: 8,674 Championing

    @JessieJ
    Your hoover sounds great my friend has one and swears by it she keeps saying I should get one but the price was putting me off, but I will have a look again as you got yours for a great price. 

    A pair of crocs for my granddaughter.
     But got from Amazon much cheaper. 

    ❤️
  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 8,515 Scope Online Community Coordinator
    @JessieJ that sounds like a great buy!  Make sure you put some googly eyes on it. :D 
  • JessieJ
    JessieJ Online Community Member Posts: 760 Pioneering
    Lou67 said:

    @JessieJ
    Your hoover sounds great my friend has one and swears by it she keeps saying I should get one but the price was putting me off, but I will have a look again as you got yours for a great price. 

    It is really good, @Lou67, first try of emptying it after last night & this morning's run & it wasn't full, thank goodness, but had been doing its job & so easy to empty too. So I would say, get one too. The one I bought was from Amazon, originally £209.99 down to 99.80. They had about 14 when I got mine, just looked & down to one left. There are a few around the £100 mark, so worth having a look.

    Albus_Scope said:
    @JessieJ that sounds like a great buy!  Make sure you put some googly eyes on it. :D 

    What a great idea, @Albus_Scope, I will! I've called her Beryl (the Peril), so I'll see if they do some with eye lashes. B)

  • Lou67
    Lou67 Online Community Member Posts: 8,674 Championing

    @JessieJ
    Thanks I will have a look. Enjoy your night. 
  • Kilrymont
    Kilrymont Online Community Member Posts: 4 Listener
    I'm pretty new here. Not "new" - exactly the opposite! Quite old, actually. Followed a link about hearing aids, commented after registering - here I am again following an email received from the servers re that h.aid post. Something about a badge?

    But. Re online purchase. Mine was an Ipad, gen 10. I had, no that's wrong. I still do have a Gen. 9 device whose screen glass did a kamikaze act for no clear reason, so needed fixed. Having become quite dependent on it, I didn't like the prospect of being ipadless while the Appleseeds pored over the ruined screen. So. Bought a new Gen 10 to tide me over, but in case that makes me sound like a scattercash wastrel, there was reasoning involved too. I use these things for a multiplicity of doings, watch videos, emails, general browsing and suchlike, and since many ipad incidents result from being dropped while being carried I thought that if I had one in each of the two sites in the house where my time is spent, then the risk of carry-dropping one would be avoided. Well - reduced anyway.

    As it happened, the local repairer fixed it in less than 24 hours so that was one reason blitzed. So I'm clinging hard to the one remaining. Fact is, I'm enjoying having the two devices.

    Pretty long winded, I know. I'm like that.

    If anyone wants to know who the repairer was, I'll let the secret out. But since forums can have policies agin businesses getting a mention, I won't here unless asked to. Are there PMs here? If so, anyone curious could use that.
  • JessieJ
    JessieJ Online Community Member Posts: 760 Pioneering
    Lou67 said:

    @JessieJ
    Thanks I will have a look. Enjoy your night. 

    Cheers m'dear, next day now, so have a lovely weekend.
  • Jimm_Scope
    Jimm_Scope Posts: 5,409 Scope Online Community Specialist
    I got a new boardgame :) 
  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 14,987 Championing
    @Kilrymont  thanks for sharing, that was interesting to read I thought :blush:

    @Jimm_Scope which game? :smiley:

    My Mum bought a basic game board online because she found a set of chess pieces but no board and she wants to learn to play chess. It came and it was in a really bad state, it looked like one from a GP surgery or somewhere that has been used hundreds of times. She asked to return it for a refund and which they granted but they asked for it back which I thought was odd, because it cost £7.50 and that's for a new one, the one we got is probably unsellable, so I wonder why they wanted to pay to get it back?
  • Jimm_Scope
    Jimm_Scope Posts: 5,409 Scope Online Community Specialist
    I bought a game that was on sale while I was shopping for other boardgames. It's called Akrotiri and is about 2 players trying to find ancient ruins in the Aegean sea. I haven't played it yet but it looked like a fun game I could play with my partner.

    I also (in person) recently bought the 5-6 player expansion for Catan and got given Scythe. The city near to me has a boardgame cafe which I really do want to visit sometime.
  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 14,987 Championing
    @Jimm_Scope have you ever been to a board game cafe before? I've been to one several years ago and it was quite fun, it was more of a board game bar as they served alcohol but it had a nice atmosphere
  • Jimm_Scope
    Jimm_Scope Posts: 5,409 Scope Online Community Specialist
    I have been to one yes! I was friends with someone who owned/ran one in Glasgow. Sadly it shut down over Covid. I haven't really been to one since 2019, but it's finding a group to go with usually. Though just me and my partner could go.
  • rubin16
    rubin16 Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 853 Championing
    66Mustang said:
    @Jimm_Scope have you ever been to a board game cafe before? I've been to one several years ago and it was quite fun, it was more of a board game bar as they served alcohol but it had a nice atmosphere

    I really want to find one, and play dungeons and dragons or find a group that plays that. I remember playing it as a teen and really loved it. I don't know if theres any board games cafe's near me though and struggle to goto places I've not been before, but I know if I find one and feel comfortable i'd love it.

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