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How much do you spend on Amazon a month?

It fluctuates from month to month. If I am building a server for a customer then I tend to spend more. I also have a tendency to renovate my house quite a bit and that bumps it up. This month I am probably in the 3k range because of the tools, pieces, parts, etc that I needed to buy.
 
I buy virtually nothing on Amazon. I buy clothes at places at the mall, and I buy Apple stuff from the Apple store. I don't really buy any other electronics. If I need something for my house, I go to Home Depot/Menard's/Lowes/Target. Food comes from the grocery store.

I just don't really buy much, period, I guess. I'm never on Amazon or any other site buying trinkets. Helps living 10 minutes from the mall of america I suppose.
 
I live in a smaller town, so I buy a lot of things on Amazon from tech stuff to clothes to toilet paper. For 2015 my 92 orders totaled right around $5000. I'm at about $1400 so far for this year.
 
It depends on my requirement. $1500 and something is the highest amount I have spent in a month. But I am not like a monthly buyer on amazon. Sometime I place order after 2 3 months according to my requirment.
 
ShikariMR said:
nowhere near above mentioned amounts

i place three or so orders per month, often on behalf of people who have problems shopping

The great asset of Amazon is for me the availabulity of honest reviews from other Amazon customers. Also the number of items I can find there that local retail outlets cannot be bothered to stock any more.

My largest single item was this 20 inch early 2008 iMac.
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I've bought a fair bit of stuff on Amazon over the years, though less than the OP. I, too, read the reviews, but it's often hard to know which ones to trust. It seems that every item has reviewers who claim that it's the best product ever sold as well as some who've had a legitimately bad experience. I pay attention to the balance of good vs. bad reviews, but that's not always reliable.

I have two other criticisms of Amazon:

1. Their filtering mechanism doesn't work well. It's supposed to let you drill down to a subset of prices, features, sellers, and so on, but even after I check off the attributes I'm interested in I'm often still left with products that don't match my criteria.

2. It's very difficult to distinguish OEM products from knock-offs, especially in accessories. For example, I recently needed a new charger for my MacBook Air. A search on Amazon came up with pages of products. But even some of the ones that were billed as "genuine Apple" had comments saying that they weren't. I've had similar experiences with everything from electric toothbrush heads to parts for my electric shavers. There are times when Amazon feels more like eBay than a store.

But I'll continue to buy from them and I, for one, welcome the arrival of our overlord Amazon drones bringing stuff that I don't need to my home. :)
 
Depends on what I need or want. Probably $50-200. And now that they've upped the amount on free shipping yet again ($49.00), I'm going to back off and just buy the vitamins and such from 3rd party sellers. I have no desire to join Prime and pay for a lot of services I don't want or need.

I could get a discount in shipping as a Prime student, but I'm renting a good deal of my textbooks already. If I have to join due to some of the cinema studies courses I will be taking, i will, but that's a last resort really.
 
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