Amazon can smell the blood in Ads. And it’s going for it

Post by hayz » Wed, Oct 07, 2020, 9:12 AM UTC

dannyw wrote: post #20

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>I've been looking for PC parts in the EU and there don't seem to be great choices. Have you tried online stores in your country? At least in my country many options exist and they have competitive prices. EU-wide ecommerce is a pipe dream

Why should a consumer bother if amazon is the most convenient and reliable? I supported a local computer shop in Australia. Umart. My $450 monitor had 1 dead pixel out of the box. I took it back and was declined a refund or exchange; apparently I need 5. I had to sell it on gumtree and took a $200 loss. I bought the monitor again for $500 on amazon, and I know if I get a dead pixel, I’ll get returns no questions aske…

Post by hayz » Wed, Oct 07, 2020, 10:29 AM UTC

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There is no EU-wide Amazon store. There are Amazon stores in some countries, but not all. I think there's no Portuguese Amazon store, which is where the grandparent lives.

It's one of the ways Amazon screwed up in the EU, probably the main one. They don't have a EU-wide site but do ship EU-wide. So you end up shopping across 5+ different Amazon stores, with slightly different prices and offers, all of which will ship to you. It's a problem of their own making.

Post by pedrocr » Wed, Oct 07, 2020, 4:04 PM UTC

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First those other eCommerce platforms need to show up. I've been looking for PC parts in the EU and there don't seem to be great choices. Newegg has a good interface but their offer in the EU is poor compared to the US. Amazon filled a lot of these verticals with sometimes the best service they've ever had and often just good enough. Finding someone else for each is hard. But it may be a good business model fot the n…

There is a comparison site called pcpartpicker which I've used to locate hundreds of parts. I'm in the UK not EU, although it does have local sites for most EU countries. Amazon is rarely the cheapest and never the only store it finds, so I usually select other stores despite already paying for Amazon Prime.

Post by nojokes » Thu, Oct 08, 2020, 11:02 AM UTC

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> Selling on Amazon has become very similar to gambling in a casino. The lucky few get rich with the millions gambling away their fortunes in the hopes of making it big someday. > In effect Amazon takes at the minimum of 65% of the product cost as it’s revenue. > Even worse is that returns are almost always borne by the seller...Amazon goes so far as to charge the sellers for the selling fees, the ad costs, the retur…

First those other eCommerce platforms need to show up. I've been looking for PC parts in the EU and there don't seem to be great choices. Newegg has a good interface but their offer in the EU is poor compared to the US. Amazon filled a lot of these verticals with sometimes the best service they've ever had and often just good enough. Finding someone else for each is hard. But it may be a good business model fot the n…