[pc86]

Amazon and Steam are really the only places I impulse buy.

I'm sure if you totaled up my Amazon purchases and my Steam library it's cost me thousands.

[sosborn]

I find that interesting because Amazon is a "no impulse buy zone" for me. Everything I buy there is meticulously planned. It is probably an effect of living in Hawaiʻi - shipping can kill a good deal very quickly (and Amazon, while I'm at it, you know where I live - stop telling me that the item is free to ship when it isn't!).

[vocatus_gate]

I'm working in Antarctica and everything takes at minimum 3-4 weeks to arrive (often 6) after ordering, so it's really taken the starch out of impulse buys.

[kirubakaran]

Did you buy Minecraft by any chance? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11822993

[vocatus_gate]

I didn't, but it's most likely at McMurdo (the largest U.S. base on the continent).

[rdrey]

Amazon doesn't deliver most physical things to my (current) home, so all of my purchases are Kindle (impulse) buys. I'm guessing that for a lot of international readers the Kindle Store is the most important part of Amazon.

[FussyZeus]

Oh man Steam sales cause ramen dinners in our house. The Wife and I are equally guilty.

[Zikes]

You can total up one of those here: https://steamdb.info/calculator/