Heya, im looking for a European alternative to Amazon. Im based in Ireland I know there are a few options but alot don’t deliver to Ireland. Thanks

  • cageythree@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    I guess I want a search engine that searches all the European online shops for the products I’m looking for, lets me browse and compare

    Yes. This so much. I don’t want to search 100 different shops. I don’t want 100 different accounts, different accepted payment methods, different delivery methods. Something like Amazon, but not controlled by one huge corporation, would be so great.

    The closest we have are price comparison sites, but once they are big enough they don’t list merchants that don’t pay them for that listing, so you often don’t find the lowest price there either.

    I also want the companies to start selling their products through European online shops, instead of just Amazon.

    Well in most cases, manufacturers don’t choose the vendors but the other way around. I’m sure most companies would love to be available at every single merchant existing, including European ones.

    If you don’t need an item within a limited time frame, you should ask European sellers if they can get the item and sell it to you. Might not always be successful, but at the very least it helps them to know the customers’ demands better. European merchants aren’t Amazon-sized and can just store and offer every existing product so they need to know what we want.

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      Luckily some shops (hopefully an increasing number) let you buy without having an account, just fill the cart, pay and bye. Probably also easier for them than managing 100M+ one-time accounts.