Price on Amazon vs price on other shops makes it hard to avoid Amazon sometimes
Price on Amazon vs price on other shops makes it hard to avoid Amazon sometimes
Anyone else struggling to avoid Amazon because of the price of some things? I need 3M Tegaderm for example and on Amazon it cost 28€ for 10cm by 10m roll and on other sites that are not Amazon I can only find it for pretty much double the price (shop-apotheke.com has it for 58,40€ https://www.shop-apotheke.com/arzneimittel/3816512/3m-tegaderm-roll-10-cm-x-10-m.htm and medizinbedarf.eu has it for 49,60€ https://www.medizinbedarf.eu/3M-Tegaderm-Roll-Transparentverband-unsteril-10-cm-x-10-m). Stuff like this really makes it difficult.
Anyone know where I can find this as cheap as on Amazon or at least not much more expensive?
Price and availability.
Which is part of why "voting with your wallet" is a fallacious late capitalist trap. You don't have much of a vote and you can't use it freely.
I've lived in places not covered by Amazon and they have much better local alternatives than the Western European regions where Amazon has sucked the air out of the space. You're not going to re-enable competition in logistics by buying from local online stores, you're re-enabling competition by breaking up Amazon and nationalizing their local branches (or taxing them to hell until they can't compete, I suppose).
Careful, I bought 3m masks on Amazon and they were fake, confirmed by 3m by email.
Amazon requires vendors to have their lowest prices on Amazon. It violates their contract to sell cheaper elsewhere.
Despite that, you can sometimes find the web shop of the vendor where they sell it cheaper or for the same price as on amazon.
True. Also, I believe that the contract is specific to the SKU. So a TV with a minor feature change would be a different item, as would a different count of items in a multi-pack. For example, poppi sodas have a 12 pack on Amazon and a 15 pack on Costco’s website for the same price.
Here it is for around the same price 23,28 € + 4€ shipping in Germany
https://www.sparmed.de/product/tegaderm-3m-roll-10-cmx10-m-16004.169805.html You can always use some portal like idealo or geizhals to compare prices.
Idealo belongs to rightwing german Axel Springer AG, which owner is totally in bed with MAGA. Don't use them
I agree that one should always add this general warning whenever they are mentioned. I can't see how they benefit from my visit if i am using ublock origin and remove all the relevant cookies and parts of the url that would give them a commission.
Actually I had it the other way around. The item on amazon was like 25€ and on Galaxus 19€+3€ shipping, so basically the same.
In case of other products it was super helpful to have a product/shopping search going (like idealo) to find the lowest bidder.
But in sum I find the product search on amazon more convinient: I start there just to search different shops for the found product 😈.
Idealo belongs to Springer and should be avoided
I agree that it is preferable to use existing alternatives like geizhals.eu. But better to use idealo to discover European alternatives than buying from Amazon.
Kay. Didn't know that. I used google product search, which should be avoided, too 😂
You can use them and then delete the parameters and cookies, stuff like
?p=65536&utm_source=PSM&utm_medium=idealo_de&em_src=pricecomp&em_cmp=idealo
Thanks for the tip with idealo I always forget that you can check non tech items with it and found a few shops that sell the tegaderm roll for pretty much the same price.
Ah funny, that was exactly my suggestion in another comment :) too late
I consider amazon as not even an option. If I think other prices are too steep, I just don't buy things or save up. It helps not to compare the prices.
Is this it? https://www.ebay.de/itm/285490444604
Amazon has good pricing and availability.
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Local shops had nilfisk pressure washer o ring kit for 50 eur.
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Amazon had it for 10. And even that is overpriced.
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Local espresso cleaning tablets (8 pack) are like 16 eur.
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Amazon has them for 10 eur. Oh and its a bottle of 100 cleaning tablets.
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Spray booths are like 200 eur here at local hobby store.
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Amazon has the same one for like 80.
For that money I'll gladly sell out the yanks to russia and destroy local pop and mom shops. Not to mention things like battery powered lightbulbs, iwata gas stoves, popular IEMS, other small weird odds and ends do not exist outside of amazon.
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Here we have prisjakt.no that cover the prices across stores for many consumer products, maybe other countries have something similar?
Estonia has hind.ee
Sweden have prisjakt.se and PriceRunner.se