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After moving from UK to Switzerland I was missing Amazon until I discovered galaxus/digitech. It’s great and feels so much faster, amazon has tons of clutter and dishonest reviews. Historic price is awesome, the whole thing is just much more honest.
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The pricing is on another level as well.
Believe it or not, but theirs are the lowest prices in Switzerland.
Toppreise and google shopping (yeah…) often can find better deals on the same items even after shipping.
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The pricing is on another level as well.
Electronics are actually cheaper in Switzerland than in most countries, thanks to low VAT.
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Electronics are actually cheaper in Switzerland than in most countries, thanks to low VAT.
Not quite true, once you vos der VAT on these is 7% in CH but 20+% in the EU. Things should therefore be at least 13% cheaper in CH but they aren’t because reasons.
I live in Switzerland and shop a lot from Galaxus. This new initiative is very welcome and innovative, I hope other retailers follow and especially manufacturers stop shopping products that end up in landfill. Galaxus is great in terms of range and delivery time. They have local stores in city centers where you can pick up items to get them even quicker and avoid the packaging associated with shipping. However, their…
Presumably it is much harder to sell now. If you didn’t want it, why buy it in the first place?
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I have a feeling not many Swiss buy a satnav, go on a two week trip with it and then return just before the return policy ends.
I have a feeling not many people buy satnavs in 2023.
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Is this a thing? People do that?
On the country side you can buy fresh fruits from small unattended shops on the side of the roads: you take a fruit basket and leave the money in a jar. (I only saw this in the Swiss German part, though).
I love Galaxus! Most online retailers could probably increase their revenue by xx% just by copying some of their patterns. - price history so you can see when sales are fake - one click "deliver to my closest branch and I will pick it up and pay there so I don't have to muck around with online payments" option - automatic high quality translation of all product information and reviews into all offered languages - sim…
This is now a law enforced in European Union to display such history (at least the lowest price in last 30 or more days so customer knows if the price was not fake rised just before lowering it and calling it a sale). WooCommerce has a plugin for that now[1].
This is just straight up an ad. This should be removed.
But then again, they only ship to Switzerland, no? So what do they gain from exposing the site on HN?
Amazon has little traction in Switzerland still.
Swiss people like to support local businesses, hurray!