How often do you use Amazon?

[94touring]

I find myself more and more not bothering to make trips to stores unless I really need something right now.  I buy items constantly on Amazon. Sitting in Singapore thinking about things I need to do when I get back like flush coolant and rather than drive out of my way to the auto store I'm pressing buy now and have it delivered a couple days before I get home.  I need some 4mm wide masking tape also. Rather than drive across town to the hobby lobby and spend 15 minutes wandering around, Amazon.

[ADRay]

I use it often for work, as it's easier and less time consuming than running around for things.

At home, not so much. I only use it if I need something that I can't find at a brick and mortar store within my usual range of travel.

[Dan Moffet]

I use Amazon to search for hard-to-find things like casement window operators, windsocks for a discontinued Shure gooseneck micophone, folding hand truck etc. Then I watch for local sales to see about a better price.

[ve9aa]

Once/twice a month on avg.

For me, 2 things.......price (sometimes Amazon is more though, so be careful)

and

availability (selection).

Where I live, 30mins NW of Fredericton, NB, Canada selection on certain things can be very poor.  It's not a big city and I have 1hr of driving + shopping times to consider. If I don't need it "today", I'll buy it on Amazon, even if the price is a LITTLE more.

But it's mostly about selection for me.

I bet in most of the USA or larger places in Canada it's less about selection.

Thoughts?

[94touring]

I have a large selection here. It's almost hard to not find what I need. And usually it's next day delivery.  Sometimes same day.

[Dan Moffet]

Here in Ottawa, there are, I think, two distribution centres, though they don't carry everything. The microphone windsocks I mentioned are coming from China and will arrive sometime between 15 October and 4 November. Shipping $2 CDN!

I have also bought a few things from VEVOR.CA where most of the prices are really good. They carry a strange and wide assortment of products. 

[94touring]

Vevor is pretty good!  I've bought a lot of things from them

[MiniDave]

I use Amazon less these days as I don't find they really have any price benefit, and other places like Wal Mart and Home Depot do home delivery too, for free if the dollar amount is high enough.

When looking for parts for my 06 MINI, I found better prices and still free shipping on Ebay on a number of things I needed. Pelican parts is a good source for a lot of German car stuff.

[ve9aa]

I use Amazon less these days as I don't find they really have any price benefit, and other places like Wal Mart and Home Depot do home delivery too, for free if the dollar amount is high enough.

When looking for parts for my 06 MINI, I found better prices and still free shipping on Ebay on a number of things I needed. Pelican parts is a good source for a lot of German car stuff.

I tried to order struts for my '09 BINI from Minimania.com a while back and that went sideways.

Ended up buying 2 cheapies off Amazon that looked pretty close to OEM.

I've bought from Pelican Parts before but with money exchange, duty, taxes, brokerage fees and now tarrifs if can be bloody expensive to get something here, often about double the cost.

[94touring]

Got the tundra struts off Amazon for a good deal too.  Everything has free shipping with my subscription or whatever, plus I'll extend out shipping since I'm usually not in a rush or home and end up with some extra credit to put towards the next purchase.

[MiniDave]

I use Amazon less these days as I don't find they really have any price benefit, and other places like Wal Mart and Home Depot do home delivery too, for free if the dollar amount is high enough.

When looking for parts for my 06 MINI, I found better prices and still free shipping on Ebay on a number of things I needed. Pelican parts is a good source for a lot of German car stuff.

I tried to order struts for my '09 BINI from Minimania.com a while back and that went sideways.

Ended up buying 2 cheapies off Amazon that looked pretty close to OEM.

I've bought from Pelican Parts before but with money exchange, duty, taxes, brokerage fees and now tarrifs if can be bloody expensive to get something here, often about double the cost.

Same for me getting parts from Jolly Olde.....I found cheap OEM MINI struts on Ebay, I also got lucky and found a set locally on FB Marketplace

[94touring]

For example the coolant was $17 shipped for free.  O Reilly has a deal at $16 going on right now.  I'll spend the extra dollar and save the gas money. 

[jeff10049]

Amazon, not so much. I'm often outside a seller's shipping area; that pissis me off, as it's purely based on my zip code. I've entered the next town's zip code before to force a ship, and then it gets corrected and still arrives at me. 
But lately I have been using online a lot more for convenience and price, and the fact that you just can't seem to buy much anymore at a brick-and-mortar; they just don't have it or care to get it.
eBay has been good, and RockAuto or anywhere that has it and ships reasonably.
I just can't be bothered to drive to the store only to settle on something that's not really what I wanted, costs more, and I have to modify it to work, when I can just order it online and be done.
I've also been using McMaster-Carr a lot lately.

[MiniDave]

I used McMaster a lot when I worked at the plant - their overnight shipping was pretty amazing, and cheap....since then they've gotten a little spendy, but they have stuff!

I agree it's getting near impossible to walk in and buy something from a store.....

I haven't used Rock Auto yet, but I've had pretty good luck finding stuff on Ebay, Amazon has been a bit hit or miss lately. Don has had his Costco membership for decades so when he finds a good deal on oil or something he buys it for me.

[cstudep]

Rock auto is nice because they have different levels/grades of parts to choose from, various brands and even some OE parts sometimes. They are also usually a lot cheaper than a local parts store. Got to watch it though as they usually get you on shipping. Most of the time its still a lot cheaper but definitely something to keep an eye on with them. Biggest issue is the wait, if you need a part right now its not the best option usually.

If its used OE parts I'm looking for I will try ebay, although they have been frustrating lately. I need a new interior door handle for my tundra because it broke. This is the sort of thing I go to eBay for. Part listed as for a 2006 tundra, with gray interior. Pic showed same. Got it and it is not even remotely correct and the color is charcoal not gray. Ordered another one, color was correct but handle was wrong. I think I keep getting the handle for the 4 door tundra which is completely different from the access and regular cab trucks. Its basically a sequia so parts are not interchangeable.