There's a simple little meme going around with the theme, "When did you lose your Amazon virginity?" I ran across it on verbatim by way of 50 Books.
My current Amazon account says that my first order was a DVD of Office Space on September 15, 1999.
I have another Amazon account associated with an old e-mail address that I apparently opened in 2000. My first order on that account was "The Remains of Tom Lehrer" box set of CDs on May 24, 2000. From those two orders, you'd think I never order books from Amazon, but I really do.
Interestingly enough, when I did a search for my name on Amazon (not in the right place to find my old account, but just in the regular search bar), I found a vanity published book I co-wrote with a concert photographer back in 1994. It showed up listed as a "rare oversized soft cover" book which sold for $85.
I still have two copies of it in my portfolio, so it's nice to know that I own something I could sell for $85 if I ever get short of ready cash.
So when was your first Amazon order and what did you buy?
January 10, 1999
Memoirs of a Geisha
Posted by: bitterkat | February 01, 2007 at 04:09 PM
April 2, 1998
N is for Noose
Frenchy's Grease Scrapbook: We'll Always Be Together
Posted by: cagey | February 01, 2007 at 08:54 PM
April 11, 1997
Total Control by David Baldacci
(unfortunately not the best book, from what I remember)
Hey Cagey...I bought "N is for Noose" on April 3, 1998. Scary, huh?
Posted by: Goofy Girl | February 01, 2007 at 09:45 PM
OK, so I tried, but I can't find where it says when I joined...? Am I just up too early in the morning?
Posted by: Blondie | February 02, 2007 at 06:31 AM
Blondie: You just go to "Your Account" and choose "Complete order history sorted by year" from the first dropdown menu. It'll take you to an account page with another dropdown menu and the bottom entry in the list will show you the orders from the first year you started ordering.
Posted by: Jane | February 02, 2007 at 08:45 AM
The UK version is pretty amazing too.
Posted by: Keith | February 03, 2007 at 05:05 AM
I was shocked at how many books I have purchased from Amazon (312) with my first one in April of '98. I am afraid to add up what I have spent there. Also, now that I have reviewed what I purchased, some either never arrived or I lost them. This was a bad idea.
Posted by: The Misanthrope | February 03, 2007 at 03:38 PM
Sorry, I forgot to answer the question, since I was shocked about the other. The first book was "The Flanders Panel" by Arturo Perez-Reverte.
Posted by: The Misanthrope | February 03, 2007 at 03:42 PM
My co-worker, a 40-year-old, gobsmacked me the other day when he said "I have heard of this Amazon website - what is it?"
Huh?
Posted by: SUEB0B | February 03, 2007 at 04:27 PM
Must be a popular meme - that page is down on Amazon! There's a message that says they're working on it.
Posted by: lizriz | February 07, 2007 at 09:50 AM
I remember mine, only because a co-worker was impressed that I used the Internet so proficiently. (snort) It was Willo Davis Roberts' "View from the Cherry Tree", a children's/ young adult novel I liked to read aloud to my 6th grade students. That was in 1997, when I was still with AOL.
Posted by: Daisy | December 27, 2007 at 02:51 PM