What I hate about ordering scrap supplies on-line

Seeing and being able to touch is so worth more. I was recently able to travel to a store I normally just buy online from was so awesome to see the store itself. I spent way more than I intended. And the samples seeing the product in use really helps too.

I buy more when I can see what I'm buying, or when a place has a blanket free shipping amount. I wanted to get myself the Memory Misti, and finally decided I'd buy it despite my reservations and lack of confidence in the company to back up their product. I thought maybe over Black Friday someone would have a small sale with free shipping, but alas, no. Scrapbook.com had the Misti, but the only discount was a $10 off coupon over $70, and it was going to cost me $10.99 to ship. I had other things in my cart as well, but meh, if the coupon doesn't even cover postage on my order why bother? It's probably a good thing, though, lol...I didn't buy something I might regret later!

It specifically drives me nuts to buy die-cuts or ephemera packs that have a lot of different designs. Most packs have all the designs on the back, but online retailers rarely put them on the site. Then I have to google the item, and hunt through several sites to find more blurry incomplete photos. A lot of times I don't make it back to the site I had planned to buy from because another site tempts me in, or Amazon has it with free shipping...and I don't have to buy anything but the one item I want that way. One site I use gives videos instead of pics--but honestly, I really hate wading through a show video hoping to catch a partial glimpse of the contents, when all they have to do is scan the back.

Unfortunately, the images they use are most likely provided by the manufacturer, not the webstore. They could take their own photos, but that would be very time consuming, and probably not worth that to them. We were always asked to provide the images, and the companies do not want the files to be big/clear enough for a consumer to copy, and print themselves.

I feel the same way about ordering scrap stuff on-line. That's what I really miss about Two Peas. I loved the warehouse walk videos, the CHA videos done by Jamie and the Garden Girls videos. Between all three of those I always felt like I had a pretty good idea of what the product was like. The downside was I would go to order the product and it would be sold out.

What really bothers me is that the colors aren't always true. I recently bought a set of paper I thought had vivid reds and blues. When I got it all the colors were paler than they were in the picture on the site. I can still use them of course but I'm disappointed.

Being able to see and pick up also makes me buy more because many times I'll see something online and think it's not to my taste or colors or whatever and in person it's super cute.

If I'm interested in a collection, I might go search youtube for the collection. Sometimes you'll find someone has already bought the item and took it out of the package to show off to others.

Me too!