Tools and supplies for my bladesmithing hobby. The supply sites that do exists have really terrible web presences and they still do much of their business with paper catalogs. Most of the stores don't have items categorized more than one level deep nor by the properties of the item. There are all sorts of options for something as simple as an anvil or a pair of tongs. God help you if you need handle hardware. You hav…
Poll: What do you find buying online really hard or annoying?
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#13I have never found a good grocery delivery service that had an interface that didn't make me want to shoot myself.
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#16I don't need any more filtering or sorting. I think there needs to be more editorial, sort of like Consumers Reports. The biggest problem now is that reviews all cover only a single product. I want to see reviews that cover a product category. Comparison reviews are so much more useful than single item reviews.
Once you've read some reviews, how do you choose one product to buy?
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#17Housing. Period. Craigslist is pretty much the most painful thing to use when looking for an apartment. But they have a lock on the supply side.
At least here in the UK, we have the following which are good:
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#19Clothing. Granted, I hate buying clothes in person too, but not being able to try things on makes it seem like quite a gamble.
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#20Home fixtures. Specifically, looking for anything by dimension - I have yet to find any way to find a medicine cabinet for a rough opening of 12.5"x16.5", for instance, or a register of 8"x10" - both actual examples of things I need for my renovation and can't find online or offline (offline because nobody local carries odd dimensions).