Friday Five
Sep. 12th, 2014 22:47![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mapsedge1. What crowd-funding projects have you supported? If you haven’t supported any, were there some that really intrigued you?
I've never supported one; never had the money. The one that truly got my attention (where I didn't actuallyknow the person) was ZPM Espresso. Coffee. I mean, c'mon. Had I had the money at the time, I would have gladly forked over the maximum donation just to have a good espresso machine with parts I could replace off-the-shelf.
2. How much of your montly bill-paying is done online?
Most of it. I think there are one or two checks that we still have to write. Trash service, life insurance, stuff like that.
3. What are some of the more memorable things you’ve bought or sold in online auctions?
Purchased two sets of lasts, wooden shoe forms, one set for men's shoes, one for women's. Never did anything with them, ended up selling them back on Ebay.
4. What experience do you have with purchasing digital entertainment (music, movies, TV shows, or live web shows, for example) online?
Music: I buy from CDBaby, occasionally Amazon, but always physical media to avoid DRM restrictions. Most of the time, any music is simply downloaded from ... ahem ... non-commercial sources, shall we say? I can get pretty much any song I want by recording audio off YouTube, or downloading from sites like MediaMonkey. There's also torrents: I download movies all the damn time.
5. What kind of stuff have you bought or sold from personal online craft stores, such as are found on Etsy?
Purchased several hundred silver-colored buttons for the yeoman uniforms from an Etsy vendor in England. They were much smaller than I expected, but turned out to be perfect in context.
I've never supported one; never had the money. The one that truly got my attention (where I didn't actuallyknow the person) was ZPM Espresso. Coffee. I mean, c'mon. Had I had the money at the time, I would have gladly forked over the maximum donation just to have a good espresso machine with parts I could replace off-the-shelf.
2. How much of your montly bill-paying is done online?
Most of it. I think there are one or two checks that we still have to write. Trash service, life insurance, stuff like that.
3. What are some of the more memorable things you’ve bought or sold in online auctions?
Purchased two sets of lasts, wooden shoe forms, one set for men's shoes, one for women's. Never did anything with them, ended up selling them back on Ebay.
4. What experience do you have with purchasing digital entertainment (music, movies, TV shows, or live web shows, for example) online?
Music: I buy from CDBaby, occasionally Amazon, but always physical media to avoid DRM restrictions. Most of the time, any music is simply downloaded from ... ahem ... non-commercial sources, shall we say? I can get pretty much any song I want by recording audio off YouTube, or downloading from sites like MediaMonkey. There's also torrents: I download movies all the damn time.
5. What kind of stuff have you bought or sold from personal online craft stores, such as are found on Etsy?
Purchased several hundred silver-colored buttons for the yeoman uniforms from an Etsy vendor in England. They were much smaller than I expected, but turned out to be perfect in context.