Birthday Plans

[mbarrick]

OK, I turn 36 in a week. Here's the plan. On the actual day-of the best girlfriend ever is going to take me out to dinner and we'll probably hit Rebel-Rebel afterwords. The "official" birthday fête will be Saturday, August the 9th, bundled with our pre-Sin party, followed of course by Sin City since I am the poster boy for August (BTW, I'll be restoring the Sin City pictures that Saturday).

And, not that I expect anything, but because Elaine wanted me to, here are my Amazon wishlists:

• Amazon.ca
• Amazon.com

Comments

[urban-creature.livejournal.com]

ok, so say one was interested in picking up a little something from said wish list, how would one know if it had already been picked up by another?

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Good question. I suppose letting Elaine know would be the way to go. valerian@gothic.bc.ca

[valerian.livejournal.com]

Yep, just drop me a line. :)

[urban-creature.livejournal.com]

no problemo :D

[opulence-9.livejournal.com]

I get to be there this time YAY! just might be able to convince R to go, by the way you looked good in the flyer :)
Already got the boy his prezzie

[mediavictim.livejournal.com]

amazon.com.... nothing like exchange , duties, taxes and shipping charges to make a cheap item expensive... the last thing I bought from Amazon was a $12 book that cost $48 when I was done.

I am intrigued why the stuff on the .com list is not avaliable on the .ca list


Even though I am not going to sin city (financial diversions, personal dislike for the event) I will try to make it.

Amazon.crap

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

I know. I find it utterly annoying that they don't share data. I set up the .com wishlist before .ca had the wishlist functionality. At one point, I had a hell of a time changing my address with Amazon.ca - the form would only accept a 5-digit number (i.e. U.S. Zip-code) in the "Postal Code" field.

Frankly I wouldn't recommend actually *buying* anything from Amazon. It's just easier than typing out a list.

[mediavictim.livejournal.com]

I was an amazon whore for a while .. went a little nuts

When Virgin opened it had a great sellection of counterculture books , neat knick nacks ..and whatnot.... But when they got
taken over by the right wing family fundimental .. their
interesting inventory went to pot - more mainstraem conformist.

Granville books was the last hope .. but their art/culture books are a little sporatic.

That is where Amazon kicked in .. I was able to buy a books (used) that I had been looking for for a few years but I couldn't find a retailer for it (the Book HOW TO MUTATE AND TAKE OVER THE WORLD by the freshly Deceased St JUDE) and I discovered a whole new world of books I had not seen before that were not avaliable in Canada and I had never seen at local stores.

I eventually stopped online buying regularly as I did miss shopping/hunting and the male perogative to return to the tribe(home) with a kill(package in my hand) and I found that the Shipping costs were killer (I think that is how Amazon makes
its money -give shit at cost, overcharge for shipping)




I am a little pissed that .ca and .com don't share inventory (example NAQOYQATSI DVD)

What I usually do is shop at Amazon.com .. wich pretty well lists
what is avaliable .. and then if I need - purchase locally....


Although my largest use for Amazon.com has been to copy the pictures from the website to print the labels for some of the
more interesting stuff I got from Kaaza.... I call that my
sneaky little bastard policy.

[opulence-9.livejournal.com]

hey your royal hienie, what is your actually date of birth? (year need not be included as I already know that one )

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

July 31