What was your first Amazon order?

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Order Date: May 22, 2004
Order #: 058-3435918-8633954
Recipient: Emily S. Robinson
Items:
1 of: Don't Forget the Oatmeal: A Supermarket Word Book, Featuring Jim Henson's...

* 1 of: Building Construction Illustrated

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* 1 of: Remington Personal Erotic Massage Device

My first proper online purchases were from cdnow, who I still sort of miss. You could get a long, clean page of matches for a song title in a way that Amazon is still crap for.

Rebuilding the Indian : A Memoir
June 12, 1998
The Art of the Motorcycle
June 14, 1999
I. Asimov : A Memoir
October 25, 1999
Billions & Billions : Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
October 25, 1999

* 1 of: The Human Animal : A Personal View of the Human Species
* 1 of: The Human Zoo : A Zoologist's Classic Study of the Urban Animal
* 1 of: The Descent of Woman : The Classic Study of Evolution
* 1 of: Darwin Machines and the Nature of Knowledge

(This was my second copy of this book actually, I gave my first one away. And sometime after 1999, I gave this one away too, then bought a third copy for myself).

First order for myself:
December 22, 1999
Waiting for Guffman

Items: 1 of: Strange Angels (Laurie Anderson CD)

Items:

1 of: Marriage Of Cadmus Harmony
1 of: The Hot Fives & Sevens [JSP] [Box] [IMPORT] [BEST OF] [BOX SET]

* 1 of: The Big Lebowski
* 1 of: Dancer in the Dark - New Line Platinum Series
* 1 of: Boogie Nights

Order Date: 29 Jan 2002
Order #: 202-2161583-1483026
Recipient: Christopher M. Jones
Items:

* 1 of: Tom McRae

I remember my first ever order as being for the Bellatrix album It's All True, in 2000. When I was 16, awww.

I never had a personal CD copy until that point but remember being annoyed that I couldn't find it for under a fiver as it had been in the HMV Sale.

May 27, 1999

Maine's Golden Road : A Memoir
5890-9330156-954181 January 16, 1998

There Goes Maine! : A Somewhat History, Sort Of, of the Pine Tree State 5890-9330156-954181 January 16, 1998

Order Date: November 24, 2002
Order #: 103-3801395-6004660
Recipient: James Blount

Items:
1 of: Dock Ellis in the Country of Baseball (Fireside Sports Classics) [Paperback...
1 of: The Prone Gunman (City Lights Noir)
1 of: History of Township Music

* 1 of: Soul Explosion [Daktaris]
* 1 of: Speak Like A Child [Herbie Hancock]
* 1 of: Possible Cube [Chicago Underground Trio]
* 1 of: Change Of The Century [Ornette Coleman]
* 1 of: Leviathan (Contemporary American Fiction) [Auster]
* 1 of: Best Of The Meters
* 1 of: Amazing Grace: Mississippi Delta Spirituals By The Hunter's Chapel Singers Of Como, Miss.

* 1 of: Labyrinth

sadly this is not really my first amazon order, but I forgot my amazon password and opened a new user account :( :( :(

* 1 of: Spirit [Willie Nelson -- I don't remember this, think I must have sold it right away]
* 1 of: Drum 'N' Bass For Papa [Plug]
* 1 of: Volume IV: Louis Armstrong And Earl Hines
* 1 of: Songs From A Room [Leonard Cohen]
* 1 of: Lennie Tristano/The New Tristano
* 1 of: Velvet Underground (3rd LP) [Remaster] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]
* 1 of: Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra, etc / Reiner, Chicago SO
* 1 of: Time Waits [Remaster] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] [Bud Powell]
* 1 of: The Amazing Bud Powell - Vol. 1.
* 1 of: Plastic Ono Band [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] [EXTRA TRACKS]

Order#: 560781 Date: 3/18/1997 Ship: First Class
Config Ord Ship Artist/Title Price Status
CD 1 1 Insane Clown Posse / Terror Wheel $10.42 Shipping
CD 1 1 Total Coelo / I Eat Cannibals & Other Tasty Trax $10.99 Shipping

TAKE THAT, TOM TO THE BOT

Have we all just laid ourselves open to identity theft?

Recipient: Patricia Byrne
View order
Items:

* 1 of: Trainspotting (1995)
* 1 of: Yellow Submarine (1968)
* 1 of: The Straight Story
* 1 of: Mars Attacks
* 1 of: Proof (1991)
* 1 of: Fargo (1996

I'm fairly sure I was buying at least some of these as presents. I have never had any desire to own a copy of Yello Submarine.

1 of: Do The Right Thing (1989)

on VHS - and only £5.34 - my second was even better - "Digital Dreams" - artprn!

Order Date: January 26, 2003

1 of: Daring!: The Redstone Diary 2003 Engagement Calendar
1 of: Amelie

(This isn't really the first, I started ordering stuff from them in 1999 on a now defunct email. And yes I always get my diaries very late in the year.)

* 1 of: Father of Lies : A Novel

(by Brian Evenson)

october 28 2000
Delivery Preference: Dispatch this when complete

1 "We Love The City (Limited Edition) [BOX SET]"
Hefner;
Audio CD; @ GBP 12.24 each
Usually available in 1-2 weeks
and I never got it because I forgot to give them my street address!
But they did refund me my money. Back then you could still reach a real person in customer support :-/

however I ordered from a local online place months before that and my first international order was from opalmusic:

The products you ordered are:
Purchased 1 units of JACK The Belle Et La Discotheque -- (UK CD) REF41989 at unit price of £6.50 totalling £6.50

* 1 of: Withnail and I - Criterion Collection

My second order didn't come until December. That's when the floodgates really opened.

(Also, my college roommate ordered something for me way back in 1998, so that was sort of my unofficial first order.)

* 1 of: The Stompbox
* 1 of: Asterix the Legionary (Adventures of Asterix)
* 1 of: Asterix in Spain (Adventures of Asterix)
* 1 of: Asterix in Britain (Adventures of Asterix)

(Now if I only remembered what the Stompbox was)

Order Date: December 14, 2001
Order #: 102-8535417-9633746
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Items:

* 1 of: Panasonic DVD-RV31K DVD-Video Player with MP3 Playback (Black)

there was no longer anything cute about my VHS holdout-ism.

Items:
1 of: Holidays on Ice
1 of: Sex-O-Rama 2 [SOUNDTRACK]
1 of: Capital Punishment [EXPLICIT LYRICS]

david sedaris, big pun, and a porno soundtrack.....

I ordered this in 2003 but i'm sure I ordered some shit before that time. Under another account probably.

i spent most of my time ordering US DVDs for my net-phobic dad, tho.

* 1 of: Cool Rules

Edition: Paperback

This is from memory: I changed email addresses, and didn't 'retrieve' my previous address, so it's long expired.

* 1 of: David Austin's Roses 2003 Engagement Calendar
* 1 of: Naked
* 1 of: Basquiat

Items Ordered
1 of: The Secret History : A Novel [Paperback]
By: Donna Tartt

1 of: Raymond Pettibon: The Books 1978-1998

* 1 of: Nixon Two Tongue Men's Belt - Large - Black Suede

I don't buy many things online.

(2 and 3 were Amazom market place purchases)

(March 2005)

* 1 of: The Best of Chuck Berry
* 1 of: The Ultimate Collection
* 1 of: Clangers (Original Television Music) [SOUNDTRACK]

I have no idea what's on the Ultimate Collection, looking at the date I'd guess it was a Christmas present.

Sandman: Season of Mists (which someone proceeded to borrow and never give back)