Online Shopping -- What's your poison?
08-24-2013, 05:13 AM
#31
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Upstate New York
Posts: 1,231
Originally Posted by maminstl
I purchase on line when certain criteria are met - Must be on sale enough to make it worthwhile - shipping must be free or what I consider to be a bargain. Generally buy only brands I'm familiar enough with to feel confident about. I also buy locally, but probably more on line than anything. Although I see lots of fabric I think is pretty, it has to really speak to me to want to buy it and that doesn't happen very often.
Also JoAnne's has coupons for free shipping sometimes, too. Where I live I could never get the choices locally that I get on line, it is just too rural and there are very limited choices. I wait for the sales and have fun.
08-24-2013, 05:26 AM
#32
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Saginaw Michigan
Posts: 2,305
Not necessarily the latest fabric but one I can't live without, there's no control. My delimna is how much and then later wondering if Maybe I shouldn't have bought fabric. My best anti-purchasing method......don't walk into a quilt shop!
08-24-2013, 07:11 AM
#33
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Powell (Columbus) Ohio
Posts: 115
Ordering online
Originally Posted by BellaBoo
I buy from lots of online shops. I rather use PayPal. I don't have my checking account info on Pay Pal, just a local bank credit card. Never use a bank debit/credit card to shop online. I use a local bank credit card with a very low credit limit for online shopping. We use LifeLock credit protection too. Discover is the only card I've had trouble with. After getting three new accounts because the others were compromised I dropped them.
08-24-2013, 07:13 AM
#34
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Northern Virginia
Posts: 2,774
I hate shopping so it is online all the way for me. Only once have I been disappointed. The colors did not match as I had planned. I use equilter, Connecting Treads, Keepsake Quilting, MSQC, you name it, I have used it. Never a problem with my credit card or PayPal.
08-24-2013, 08:31 AM
#35
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Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: N. Atlanta, GA
Posts: 805
Originally Posted by BellaBoo
I buy from lots of online shops. I rather use PayPal. I don't have my checking account info on Pay Pal, just a local bank credit card. Never use a bank debit/credit card to shop online. I use a local bank credit card with a very low credit limit for online shopping. We use LifeLock credit protection too. Discover is the only card I've had trouble with. After getting three new accounts because the others were compromised I dropped them.
08-24-2013, 08:41 AM
#37
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Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Jackson, TN
Posts: 528
"How to do control your desire for the latest fabrics?"
My husband will be retiring next year at the ripe old age of 55. His job is being phased out so our income will be cut drastically. We will be fine but it has my husband very scared. So I try real hard to focus on not adding to his fear. Hoping he gets over this soon!!
So far as having problems with accounts being hacked or identity theft, I've been shopping online since online shopping was a twinkle in Al Gore's eye and have never had a problem. One hint I can pass on is to took at the http in the Internet address for the ordering page. If there is no "s" (https), don't use it. The "s" indicates a certain level of security - not foolproof but better than those without.
My husband will be retiring next year at the ripe old age of 55. His job is being phased out so our income will be cut drastically. We will be fine but it has my husband very scared. So I try real hard to focus on not adding to his fear. Hoping he gets over this soon!!
So far as having problems with accounts being hacked or identity theft, I've been shopping online since online shopping was a twinkle in Al Gore's eye and have never had a problem. One hint I can pass on is to took at the http in the Internet address for the ordering page. If there is no "s" (https), don't use it. The "s" indicates a certain level of security - not foolproof but better than those without.
08-24-2013, 10:27 AM
#39
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Round Rock,Texas
Posts: 6,135
I used to buy fabrics online. Now I seldom do as some places use flat rate shipping and that seems to be at least $10 for just one small item; not worth it.
I have 3 LQS that I buy from, I want them to stay in business as long as possible.
Sharon
I have 3 LQS that I buy from, I want them to stay in business as long as possible.
Sharon
08-24-2013, 10:43 AM
#40
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Las Cruces, NM
Posts: 751
I put my self on a monthly fabric budget. So I order every month and DH doesn't complain. Figure out what you can afford and stick to it. I have to order online or pay double here. I buy a lot of moda because I've never had a problem with quality of their fabrics
Last edited by QuiltingCrazie; 08-24-2013 at 10:45 AM.
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