'Add to Cart', best invention ever!

[Kevin Peacocke]

I have recently been searching for red dot optics and mounting solutions, and the choice of the sights alone is wide, but when you add the permutations of the various bases for each it gets really huge. Enter the internet, how did people ever source equipment and gadgets before? But living in a technological backwater imagine the delight of just assigning your special find to that virtual cart, using a virtual card, and whoof, the gizmo is on it's way! Of course our friends in the first world do this all the time, but to a tech hillbilly this amazing cart is nothing short of magic.
So what is the most amazing search you have had that then miraculously winged it's way to your desk?

 

[Cam300]

Amazon is even better here in the US. You don’t even add to cart anymore, you just use the “buy with one click” button and it shows up at your house the next day!

 

[Doug3006]

Hi Kevin. This isn’t hunting related but I was pretty pleased with sourcing a car part for my son‘s Toyota. He lives in an apartment in a nice part of town. One night a month ago, one of our enterprising young citizens drilled a hole in his gas tank to get $20 worth of fuel. Doing so, they ruined a gas tank on a six month old truck, leaving my son to foot the bill. The local Toyota shop told him the tank was on backorder all over the US and it could be as much as three months before they got one. I couldn’t believe, even with the supply chain issues, that a tank couldn’t be found quicker than that. I spent 5 minutes on the Internet and found one at Toyota dealership in Florida…about 1,000 miles from us. A couple of minutes, and $900 later, the part was ordered. A week later it arrived on my doorstep. The next day, the dealer installed it and away we go. Without the internet we’d have still been waiting.

 

[Aaron N]

There’s gotta be at least one member here who’s clicked “add to cart” for a wife!

 

[thi9elsp]

2016 DSC Auction, I low balled a Mozambique Safari online and hit enter bid figuring the bidding would go substantially higher. Less than 5 seconds later. "You've Won!" WTF???!!! Did I just do. It was an amazing hunt with a great PH. Oh, I didn't wake Ann up to tell her. I waited until the next morning. Honey, haven't you always wanted to go to Mozambique!

 

[Silvine]

I would say it's the worst, makes me spend more money.

 

[mdwest]

2016 DSC Auction, I low balled a Mozambique Safari online and hit enter bid figuring the bidding would go substantially higher. Less than 5 seconds later. "You've Won!" WTF???!!! Did I just do. It was an amazing hunt with a great PH. Oh, I didn't wake Ann up to tell her. I waited until the next morning. Honey, haven't you always wanted to go to Mozambique!

This has happened to me 4 different times... Its how we ended up in Argentina twice, Peru, and Ireland...

"there is no way this auction will go for this little... lets just throw a bid out there and see what happens..."...

20 minutes later Im writing a check lol...

 

[buck wild]

Add To Cart is all good until Pay The Bill comes later

 

[Rare Breed]

I have recently been searching for red dot optics and mounting solutions, and the choice of the sights alone is wide, but when you add the permutations of the various bases for each it gets really huge. Enter the internet, how did people ever source equipment and gadgets before? But living in a technological backwater imagine the delight of just assigning your special find to that virtual cart, using a virtual card, and whoof, the gizmo is on it's way! Of course our friends in the first world do this all the time, but to a tech hillbilly this amazing cart is nothing short of magic.
So what is the most amazing search you have had that then miraculously winged it's way to your desk?

Not any one thing leaps to mind but countless times told something not available only to find Mr Internet produced it for me…Woodleigh bullets after the fire…500 NE unprimed brass

 

[hseII]

There’s gotta be at least one member here who’s clicked “add to cart” for a wife!

Or for the removal service

 

[Aaron N]

I’m surprised there aren’t more fishing accidents

Or for the removal service

 

[Kevin Peacocke]

Amazon is even better here in the US. You don’t even add to cart anymore, you just use the “buy with one click” button and it shows up at your house the next day!

No man, please keep that one away from my wife..

 

[baxterb]

I would say as much as add to cart has cost me money, YouTube has saved me. An example: a few weeks ago my wife said: "the oven stopped working." I said, "How does a gas oven stop working?"

I figured it must be some sort of igniter, but what do I know about ovens? Youtube! After watching a short video of the igniter being installed on my EXACT oven, I was on Amazon adding to cart a 28$ igniter. Two days later my oven is working.

I've done this with car window lifters, furnace adjustments, irrigation problems, hell, even this computer I am typing on was fixed (creating a new boot drive on an external SSD) from an online chat room!

About the only things i have a problem with adding to cart too much are books - but hey - could be booze, so it's win/win.

 

[Traveler1]

Amazon is even better here in the US. You don’t even add to cart anymore, you just use the “buy with one click” button and it shows up at your house the next day!

Heck if you leave in a city with an Amazon warehouse you might get it the same day.
Kevin... does the wife count? Meet her on an outdoor forum almost 20 years ago. As for an actual hunting related purchase, well that would be a good quality camo shirt that actual fits me. Apparently guys my size don't hunt or wear suits of the rack. Well when I use to wear a suit.

 

[Mark A Ouellette]

I would say as much as add to cart has cost me money, YouTube has saved me.

Same here! I watch YouTube videos to learn how to repair my truck, SUV, and daughter's little Kia. All are unique in their own way.

YouTube gives everyone the opportunity for Five Minutes of Fame! There are most always persons who desire to demonstrate their expertise of a subject.

 

[Kevin Peacocke]

Yes wives count, especially when you can peruse the spec sheet before!

 

[Firebird]

Can’t disagree with any of the above experiences BUT I still love to pick up an item with my hands and make sure it’s what I really want before I buy it. Often I find something I like then go find it online and then click the cart button-

 

[ActionBob]

My wife loves to shop at Dillard's. Ok, so I could have stopped at loves to shop. Period

She complains that Minnesota does not have a Dillard's store.... I disagree, there is obviously not only a Dillard's but also Macy's and a plethora of other high end stores right down the road 15 miles, inside the little local Post Office They have squeezed all those big department stores as well as specialy boutiques into that little building with a continuous un-interrupted supply of, everything! Not only do they have everything right there, they even accept returns! Thank the Good Lord

 

[Traveler1]

Yes wives count, especially when you can peruse the spec sheet before!

Yeah, I guess there was a spec sheet.
Kevin. Is there a limit to how far off the beaten path, say DHL, FedEx or other carrier will deliver. Also do have to pay an import if coming from out country. It just seems like now a days, there is about anything an outfitter might need he/she can get it. Example a broken part on Carruthers. Where back in the day, even here in the US, you modified something to make it work, now you order it online.

 

[baxterb]

Same here! I watch YouTube videos to learn how to repair my truck, SUV, and daughter's little Kia. All are unique in their own way.

YouTube gives everyone the opportunity for Five Minutes of Fame! There are most always persons who desire to demonstrate their expertise of a subject.

A long time ago I bought a headlamp and learned that it had many functions that were not in the manual. I made a YouTube video explaining all of them and the response was amazing. So many people commented about how it helped them understand it. A lot of YouTube is crap, but there are great videos as well.