Alternatives to Amazon and eBay?

rufuschucklebutty

I live off grid with no home address, I buy stuff online and use pick up locations for Amazon, click and collect for Ebay, are there any other retailers that offer this ? 

Emmia

rufuschucklebutty said:

I live off grid with no home address, I buy stuff online and use pick up locations for Amazon, click and collect for Ebay, are there any other retailers that offer this ? 

How do you have no address? Doesn't this cause issues for council tax? (If not utilities, internet access, TV etc.)

RedImp_2

Emmia said:

rufuschucklebutty said:

I live off grid with no home address, I buy stuff online and use pick up locations for Amazon, click and collect for Ebay, are there any other retailers that offer this ? 

How do you have no address? Doesn't this cause issues for council tax? (If not utilities, internet access, TV etc.)

 Can’t imagine has any issues with Council tax !

rollingmoon

Emmia said:

rufuschucklebutty said:

I live off grid with no home address, I buy stuff online and use pick up locations for Amazon, click and collect for Ebay, are there any other retailers that offer this ? 

How do you have no address? Doesn't this cause issues for council tax? (If not utilities, internet access, TV etc.)

"Off Grid" tends to mean no utilities like my mate's place in Spain, e.g. no mains water, sewage or power, so a septic tank, solar power and deliveries of water are required. As OP doesn't have an address I imagine they don't have any issues with Council Tax. Not that any of this is relevant to their original question, of course...

martindow

How do you pay?  Doesn't a bank account or card require a postal address?

jon81uk

Argos and many other places offer store collection.

SimonFF

rufuschucklebutty said:

I live off grid with no home address, I buy stuff online and use pick up locations for Amazon, click and collect for Ebay, are there any other retailers that offer this ? 

Good question and respect for living off grid. I always wanted to do that.

Realistically.

1) You could use poste restante. It is still technically possible, however my local post office told me they only use it for "travellers".

2) If the seller uses Evri (ex Herpes... I mean Hermes), they can send it to a Evri Hub, but you need to ask the seller to set it up for you and they might not want to do that,

3) There are creative solutions that I refuse to share here because I have been a victim of.

rufuschucklebutty

martindow said:

How do you pay?  Doesn't a bank account or card require a postal address?

My local post office is my address for all correspondence,  bank, NHS, pension and everything else.