Average Jane Loves Amazon.com

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There’s a simple little meme going around with the theme, "When did you lose your Amazon virginity?" I ran across it on verbatim by way of 50 Books.

My current Amazon account says that my first order was a DVD of Office Space on September 15, 1999.

I have another Amazon account associated with an old e-mail address that I apparently opened in 2000. My first order on that account was "The Remains of Tom Lehrer" box set of CDs on May 24, 2000. From those two orders, you’d think I never order books from Amazon, but I really do.

Interestingly enough, when I did a search for my name on Amazon (not in the right place to find my old account, but just in the regular search bar), I found a vanity published book I co-wrote with a concert photographer back in 1994. It showed up listed as a "rare oversized soft cover" book which sold for $85.

I still have two copies of it in my portfolio, so it’s nice to know that I own something I could sell for $85 if I ever get short of ready cash.

So when was your first Amazon order and what did you buy?

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11 responses to “Average Jane Loves Amazon.com”

February 1, 2007

bitterkat

January 10, 1999
Memoirs of a Geisha

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February 1, 2007

cagey

April 2, 1998
N is for Noose
Frenchy’s Grease Scrapbook: We’ll Always Be Together

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February 1, 2007

Goofy Girl

April 11, 1997
Total Control by David Baldacci
(unfortunately not the best book, from what I remember)
Hey Cagey…I bought “N is for Noose” on April 3, 1998. Scary, huh?

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February 2, 2007

Blondie

OK, so I tried, but I can’t find where it says when I joined…? Am I just up too early in the morning?

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February 2, 2007

Jane

Blondie: You just go to “Your Account” and choose “Complete order history sorted by year” from the first dropdown menu. It’ll take you to an account page with another dropdown menu and the bottom entry in the list will show you the orders from the first year you started ordering.

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February 3, 2007

Keith

The UK version is pretty amazing too.

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February 3, 2007

The Misanthrope

I was shocked at how many books I have purchased from Amazon (312) with my first one in April of ’98. I am afraid to add up what I have spent there. Also, now that I have reviewed what I purchased, some either never arrived or I lost them. This was a bad idea.

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February 3, 2007

The Misanthrope

Sorry, I forgot to answer the question, since I was shocked about the other. The first book was “The Flanders Panel” by Arturo Perez-Reverte.

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February 3, 2007

SUEB0B

My co-worker, a 40-year-old, gobsmacked me the other day when he said “I have heard of this Amazon website – what is it?”
Huh?

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February 7, 2007

lizriz

Must be a popular meme – that page is down on Amazon! There’s a message that says they’re working on it.

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December 27, 2007

Daisy

I remember mine, only because a co-worker was impressed that I used the Internet so proficiently. (snort) It was Willo Davis Roberts’ “View from the Cherry Tree”, a children’s/ young adult novel I liked to read aloud to my 6th grade students. That was in 1997, when I was still with AOL.

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