#online purchasing

I get bothered by the transportation of stuff we buy from Amazon. Airplanes and trucks spewing greenhouse gases so we get that book or gadget or item of clothing. But then I get ok with that, because that truck means I don’t have to get in my car and go so many miles round trip and spew my own CO2, and the airplane was going to bring the item from Point A to my store anyway. What bugs me most are the boxes and the plastic big bubble things........more plastic, what we don’t need, and all that cardboard. I just wish I knew the cardboard resulted from recycling, or I wish I could believe it if Amazon said so, or that the new box would be recycled. But all the news these days about recycling is it ain’t working: most of it goes to landfills anyway.

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That convenience is encouraging people in the US to buy more, and to make more individual purchases rather than placing a single order for several items. “There are more sales in lower-price products online than there have been in stores,” Marshal Cohen, chief industry advisor at the NPD Group, told BuzzFeed News. And all of those transactions are negatively impacting our planet, according to Miguel Jaller, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of California, Davis: “People are consuming more. There’s more demand created by the availability of these cheap products and cheap delivery options.”

Signed cards, Graded cards, even Misprints, looks like TCGplayer is finally reaching out to the niche collectors in a neato way.

 Bit too tired to start a proper post on this, but here's hoping this starts up conversation about online buying and the pros and cons when dealing with different sites.

I'll be working on my Harold Arthur McNeill piece in the meantime