I have had things bought for me and I have bought gifts for others too. It's a nice way to say thank you.

I've also "bartered" with some merchants for items that are no longer for sale, or haven't been released yet by trading the item for a gift certificate here or at Daz, or buying them an item in their wish list of equivalent value to the item I'm getting from them.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi