Amazon is no more (for me)
Amazon is no more (for me)
Finally closed an episode which started cool & nice, accompanied me half of my life, took me to many different countries, but went toxic over the years. Still bit sad.
Thanks for reminding me, have now applied to have it all deleted as well.
schön!
I’ve never bought anything there, and I’m not really sure what you’d buy there anyway... Very technical things?
For normal household goods, I buy from bol.com or from the webstore of whatever results come up in an internet search.
Books I buy from De Slegte (secondhand) or Donner, but these are also my favourite (physical) book stores. Especially Donner has a beautiful and impressive store in the center of Rotterdam.
Electronics I buy from Coolblue or physically in a Mediamarkt.
Cheap junk I get from Action, Xenos or other random junk stores. I’ve bought from TEMU twice, but I don’t think I will again. I don’t really need to. I’ve also bought from ebay once.
This is all very Netherlands-centric, of course.
For me it started with online purchases of books when the web went commercial. Later still books, music and audio books (CD), movies (DVD, Blurays), electronics, computer consoles and games, physical games, PC hardware, and more often used goods via marketplace.
In Germany we also have many good alternatives. Online I use for example Thalia, Booklooker, Zweitausendeins, Technikdirekt, Roboter-Bausatz, Alternate, Rebuy, Medimops, Konsolekost, ... And from Poland of course GOG, my favourite game store :)
I use Otto for normal household goods (I'm in Germany). The annoying thing is that they're more expensive than Amazon.
The thing is, you can buy anything at amazon and with prime the delivery cost is capped at your prime fee. I can buy my specific brand of cloth diapers and a university textbook and violin raisin and a new hoover. All at amazon.
Recently I'm ditching amazon for other stores, so yeah, you don't need it but frankly, it's convenient af. I still look for many things on amazon first to decide what I actually want to have.
I suppose it’s what you’re used to. I’ve since before I knew of Amazon’s existence just used Google to find stores where I can buy what I’m looking for. And then I generally pick the cheapest shop. I’ve simply continued what I was used to doing anyway.
Though I also already never went with Amazon even if it was cheapest, as it was yet another American service.
You can also check out www.boekwinkeltjes.nl for used books. Marktplaats is good for old DVDs etc.
I love Boekwinkeltjes.nl :)
You can find lots of antique shops with really old (pre-1800) books on there.
I used CDiscount to buy a few items, and I found them good although I have heard that when customer support is needed, they are non existent. They had a flat rate shipping fee to my country (so I knew what the overall price would be) and it was possible to filter results when searching for something, by the sellers or products that would ship to any country, but that option has been removed since January and i have no idea how to contact them to find out if it will be coming back. Bad timing it seems, as they could've taken a few customers from amazon until that was removed.
Did China join the chat a little bit?