Ever wondered how much you've ever spent at Amazon?

[SaTTaN]

I've been trying to figure it out for a while.. it's not straightforward, so in the end I wrote it up in a blog post https://vinf.net/2022/12/01/how-to-export-all-your...

Let's just say I could have a quite tidy brand-new 5-series with change for some decent options..

[vikingaero]

I buy for my parents and extended family, so I would conservatively say £25k minimum.

Mrs V normally has half a dozen items delivered. It annoys me that she can't put things into the basket and checkout say at 5pm with all 6 items, rather than buying as she goes along. The Vikingettes get stuff delivered daily to the Amazon boxes at Uni - normally make up and they conveniently forget to choose their own saved card to pay...

You know it's bad when Amazon keep sending you emails asking if you would like to convert your personal account to a business account "with the advantages of invoicing and VAT".

[tribbles]

I get those business account emails, too!

I remember having an amex card for a few years, and at the time, you got 1 point for every pound you spent. When I closed the account down, I had accrued over 80,000 points. And I'd spent some of the points during the time I had it...

[ArsE82]

Thanks OP - just requested my data.

It should be quite interesting as I've bought a *lot* of stuff for work over the years.

[Spare tyre]

Without sounding like a grump, stopping my prime member ship was an excellent decision

Kinda got hooked on stuff turning up

Saved me a fortune

[p1doc]

i get the upgrade to business emails as well phew thought it was just me amazon is just so quick and with free p+p is ideal for me and since covid they seem to be even quicker!

[LimaDelta]

I requested the data last week after reading this. Since opening my account in 2006 - £49,913.20, and exactly 2500 items purchased.

Thanks OP

That's an average of £260 per month.

Most expensive item - DJI Mini 2, cheapest - shredded lettuce!

[shirt]

nope, as it'll be a few hundred quid at most.

[Mobile Chicane]

Quite a lot, since I've been using it since 2002.

[ZedLeg]

I haven't bought anything from Amazon in about 4 years and I only really went to them for weird connectors and cables that were hard to find elsewhere. I'd be surprised if my total is more than a couple of hundred quid.

[Jasandjules]

Me very little, my wife, I really don't want to know....

[NDA]

I've been a member since 1999 - Pretzel Logic on CD was the first thing I purchased....

Given I only shop at Amazon, I imagine I've spent a small fortune.

[Zetec-S]

I imagine a small fortune, but probably not so bad considering it will be spread over 20+ years.

I think the first item I bought was Brian Lara Cricket for the PC, back in 2001.

[LukeBrown66]

Zero pounds in 15 years and I never will spend anything there.

[MesoForm]

LimaDelta said:

I requested the data last week after reading this. Since opening my account in 2006 - £49,913.20, and exactly 2500 items purchased.

Thanks OP

That's an average of £260 per month.

Most expensive item - DJI Mini 2, cheapest - shredded lettuce!

Christ, I hope you set up the smile.amazon thing to get the donations to charity on that amount!

[R56Cooper]

ZedLeg said:

I haven't bought anything from Amazon in about 4 years and I only really went to them for weird connectors and cables that were hard to find elsewhere. I'd be surprised if my total is more than a couple of hundred quid.

Same here. My friend (no really!) bought a second hand exercise bike off facebook marketplace which broke within a few weeks.

Amazon still stocked the brand new equivalent so they bought one, swapped the internals for the broken bits of their second hand bike and returned it for a full refund.

Yes it's still a simple theft but I quite liked the ingenuity of it.

[anonymous-user]

Spare tyre said:

Without sounding like a grump, stopping my prime member ship was an excellent decision

Kinda got hooked on stuff turning up

Saved me a fortune

I have bought one item from Amazon, and only because I had a £10 voucher. Turns out that by the time I had paid the postage, it would have been cheaper to buy it from eBay despite the £10 voucher.

My old next door neighbour's wife didn't work and she used to have an amazon delivery every day. The one time I went over to speak to them, I was invited in and the house was floor to ceiling with stuff everywhere. I can only assume the reason she ordered so much stuff was through boredom and the ten second buzz when it arrived.

Makes me wonder how much people are spending on things they don't need and that will just be forgotten about, end up in landfill or given to charity shops.

[ArsE82]

LukeBrown66 said:

Zero pounds in 15 years and I never will spend anything there.

Could I ask why?

[Cotty]

Spare tyre said:

Without sounding like a grump, stopping my prime member ship was an excellent decision

Yep im knocking mine on the head in February when it us due for renewal. They messed up Prime Music so its unusable, I struggle to fine anything on Prime Video to watch and I hardly buy much these days.

[JayRidesBikes]

I have an Amex rewards card, so get points per spend. I imagine my lifetime spend is fairly high.

Edit: I've requested the data because I'm now curious, I'll report back when they email me.

Edited by JayRidesBikes on Thursday 15th December 13:29