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Digitec Galaxus now displays warranty score and return rate

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Re: Digitec Galaxus now displays warranty score and return rate

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Post by leo8 »

arcticfox wrote: post #176
fire wrote: post #158

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if memory serves camelcamelcamel gets their pricing data directly from amazon via a source they aren't allowed to disclose, and bloomberg has previously reported that amazon gives camel^3 the data they have; given that, i'm not too certain they're the cause of amazon's consistent reduction in transparency to consumers - a lot of it feels like cruft built into their marketplace allowing for bad actors to effectively p…

having personally built an internal tool that was much more aggressive than camelcamelcamel, I can say they're not doing anything special in terms of sources (or if they are, it's totally unnecessary)

Was thinking about building such tool, but I couldn't come up with an idea where to source the data other than scraping it. Was looking especially for big price drops.

Re: Digitec Galaxus now displays warranty score and return rate

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Post by Abishek_Muthian »

ajsnigrutin wrote: post #138
sixhobbits wrote: post #43

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…

> - 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 I've started using this as much as possible, especially during christmas. You find something, "in stock", supposed to be delivered the next day or a day after, you order, then nothing one day, two days, three days, then you call, "yeah, it's still with the distributer, it'll be r…

In India when the major e-Commerce companies opened shop they realised that having just online payment wouldn't work due to inherent distrust with online payments, lack of card access etc. and so 'Cash on Delivery' where we pay to the delivery personnel was critical for their survival.

Nowadays people prefer to use UPI[1] over cash in even local store counters making India the largest real-time payment transactions country.

Its amazing that both of those happened within a decade, Largely synonymous with mobile compute & Internet penetration.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Payments_Interface

Re: Digitec Galaxus now displays warranty score and return rate

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Post by gggggg5 »

lm28469 wrote: post #236
gggggg5 wrote: post #233

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>- 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 That suggests a really sorry state of things, not something to copy. Online payments shouldn't be harder than physically going to a store and paying for the item.

> Online payments shouldn't be harder than physically going to a store and paying for the item Why ? It's probably more energy efficient to have trucks going to the few branches for pickups than to every single individual house. I don't see why it "shouldn't" be, especially since it's optional > That suggests a really sorry state of things, The really sorry state of things are people ordering toilet paper &co in same…

>Why ?

Is this a serious question? Why should online payments be so difficult that it makes sense to spend even 2 minutes getting out of the door and walking to a store directly across the street? You autofill your card information and click "pay".

>The really sorry state of things are people ordering toilet paper &co in same day delivery on amazon because they can't bother walking 5 min to the closest store

But why? It's cheaper on Amazon.

Re: Digitec Galaxus now displays warranty score and return rate

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Post by leo8 »

tbalsam wrote: post #239
bauruine wrote: post #82

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They are only reachable by multiple hours hiking high up in the mountains. That's a lot of "work" just for the chance of a few hundred CHF.

Backpacker territory has a certain kind of trust. Being that close to nature long enough does things to a person. It's outside of something easily described with any human words.

That was nicely described. I can totally understand it. Never thought about it that way :)

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Post by archon810 »

Zi2JDrgLmx6J2t wrote: post #216
jibcage wrote: post #141

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It thrills me to pieces seeing Migros and Galaxus on here. I wish there was something remotely similar to Migros in the US.

Terrible white-label groceries? Don't you guys have Trader Joe's for this purpose?

Confused by this comment. Trader Joe's is universally loved for its products, including groceries.

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Post by xenadu02 »

aliqot wrote: post #66
dguest wrote: post #48

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Go to an unoccupied mountain hut, drink the beer, eat the food, use the wood for the stove, use the med kit (better to leave the morphine...), sleep in the beds, take some of the local cheese, and then leave your payment in the cookie tin, using the other few hundred CHF already there to make change. Just be sure to mark everything in the ledger, so the hut warden can replace it easier.

Is this a thing? People do that?

In wilderness parts of the US you are usually allowed, by law, to break into unoccupied cabins/homes in critical situations (eg blizzard, you're lost, etc). You're required to leave identification and contact info and pay for any damages and/or supplies used.

Often people just leave remote dwellings like that unlocked and stocked with supplies, sometimes with a signature book and/or donation box. For larger places some people even build a separate cabin next to the main house for travelers to use.

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Post by IG_Semmelweiss »

brainwad wrote: post #145
Schroedingersat wrote: post #98

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In reasonably prosperous societies that take care of all their members and lack the cult of individualism, this is quite normal. Visible inequality, corruption, systemic persecution, and dire poverty tend to erode trust.

Perhaps... But Switzerland is one of the most atomised, individualistic societies I've lived in. Swiss social trust mostly comes from an abundance of means, as far as I can tell. When you've got a full belly and a roof over your head, crime just isn't as attractive.

Its part of culture. The state is not centralized (canton over federal), which makes each state independent and highly individualistic.

This ethos percolates down, well beyond empowering the minority via direct democracy: its shameful on the individual to not carry one's weight. The smallest unit is the one to trust.

Contrast that to other collectivist societies, with top heavy bureaucracies, where the top literally cannot carry their weight (debt/deficits) and the populace is always looking for the biggest bureaucracy to rescue them.

There's no trust in people, because people are competing to weaponize the large state to screw... you.

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Post by orbital-decay »

dguest wrote: post #48
ddalex wrote: post #31

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> a certain amount of trust in the system Switzerland operates on trust. You go to the car service, you get the work done, you leave, you'll receive a bill in the mail later. There is trust that they do the right work and not overcharge you, and there is trust that you'll pay.

Go to an unoccupied mountain hut, drink the beer, eat the food, use the wood for the stove, use the med kit (better to leave the morphine...), sleep in the beds, take some of the local cheese, and then leave your payment in the cookie tin, using the other few hundred CHF already there to make change. Just be sure to mark everything in the ledger, so the hut warden can replace it easier.

This is not unique to Switzerland, it's pretty common for remote areas across the continent from Scandinavia to Kamchatka. I've been hiking in the Baikal taiga, and it's pretty common for local hunters and travelers to leave money if you can't refill the hut with supplies.

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Post by herbst »

wdb wrote: post #237
herr_gurke wrote: post #218

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They implemented it before it was mandated by EU. IANAL but they didint have to implement it, since switzerland is not in EU

But Galaxus is also active/targeting Germany/Austria so they would have to implement it

Germany and Asutria are a different instance of the shop with different stock. There are several differences between these shops. That wouldn't be the issue

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Post by herbst »

ornornor wrote: post #203
lclc wrote: post #161

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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.

People always get that wrong. Switzerland is more expensive when human labor is involved, cheaper or same as surrounding countries when not. However that extra money also ends up with the labor, so it's a good thing for everyone.

Best example is a Brezel. A fresh Brezel is like $4, but a buttered one (done by human) $8-$9.

Not the butter is expensive. Humans just get proper money for their work.

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