Comment on Amazon's Monopoly of the tech industry is ruining the US economy

Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Engywuck@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Same in Spain. I don’t even have an Amazon account, btw.

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  • Damage@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Here in Italy practically no one is as quick as Amazon tho

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    • Engywuck@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      So? What’s the deal in waiting a couple of days?

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Exactly. I convinced my wife that we really don’t need everything to arrive in 0-2 days, it’s totally fine if things take 3-5 days. So I cancelled our Prime sub, and it’s been absolutely fine. In fact, we spend a bit less due to that minimum order size. We still usually get things in 2-3 days if we go w/ Amazon (we’re right next to a hub), but we’ve been buying from more retailers now that we plan for longer delivery times.

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      • Damage@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Sometimes I need stuff faster

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  • Pandantic@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Let me guess, the EU actually put laws in place to ”remediate that problem” like a ”functioning government”.

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  • dinckelman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’m also in Spain, and only use Amazon for things i genuinely cannot find elsewhere, which happens to be like once a year

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• Kyouki@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Netherlands here and as well we have so many local shops that outbeat Amazon that it isn’t even fair. There is a very small chance I buy something of Amazon, think the only time I did was for a replacement item for a Dyson.

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  • Reverendender@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I think “beat out” may have been what you meant. And in this example I would probably just say they “beat” Amazon.

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    • Kyouki@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      How dare you expose my mobile typing and/or my not-native language speaker! /s

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      • Reverendender@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Image

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• slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Do you have some good examples? I recently moved there, and want to avoid Amazon, when possible

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  • Bz1sen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    In more general terms, you can look up the item at e.g. Idealo.de or other product comparison sites and then decide where to buy. Amazon is most often not the cheapest, even including additional delivery cost

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  • 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I like to order tech stuff from mindfactory.de

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    • CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Just don’t let them assemble anything. I am serious. Whatever they can mess up and break, they will. It’s honestly astonishing how careless they handle sinfully expensive high end parts. And sure you can generally send it back and wait another week or two, but only after making several calls with their customer service. So yeah you better prepare to build your machine yourself. This is not really optional.

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• CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Please name an actual good store that can compete with Amazon. Now, I’m lucky my local book store has a digital front where I can order but when it has to be something more general, Amazon remains the only address where the majority of orders didn’t range between faulty and actual horror stories so far.

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