Anyone else struggling to avoid Amazon because of the price of some things? I need 3M Tegaderm for example and on Amazon it cost 28€ for 10cm by 10m roll and on other sites that are not Amazon I can only find it for pretty much double the price (shop-apotheke.com has it for 58,40€ https://www.shop-apotheke.com/arzneimittel/3816512/3m-tegaderm-roll-10-cm-x-10-m.htm and medizinbedarf.eu has it for 49,60€ https://www.medizinbedarf.eu/3M-Tegaderm-Roll-Transparentverband-unsteril-10-cm-x-10-m). Stuff like this really makes it difficult.

Anyone know where I can find this as cheap as on Amazon or at least not much more expensive?

  • MudMan@fedia.io
    30·
    1 个月前

    Price and availability.

    Which is part of why “voting with your wallet” is a fallacious late capitalist trap. You don’t have much of a vote and you can’t use it freely.

    I’ve lived in places not covered by Amazon and they have much better local alternatives than the Western European regions where Amazon has sucked the air out of the space. You’re not going to re-enable competition in logistics by buying from local online stores, you’re re-enabling competition by breaking up Amazon and nationalizing their local branches (or taxing them to hell until they can’t compete, I suppose).

    • FundMECFSEnglish
      1·
      1 个月前

      I have the privilidge (or I might consider it a curse, since I’m under the poverty line and extra savings would mean a lot), of living in a country without Amazon. So the amazon shipping prices and customs mean it’s inconvinient and often more expensive to order from amazon.

  • dylanmorgan@slrpnk.netEnglish
    10·
    1 个月前

    Amazon requires vendors to have their lowest prices on Amazon. It violates their contract to sell cheaper elsewhere.

    • Iloveluigi@feddit.orgEnglish
      4·
      1 个月前

      Despite that, you can sometimes find the web shop of the vendor where they sell it cheaper or for the same price as on amazon.

      • dylanmorgan@slrpnk.netEnglish
        1·
        1 个月前

        True. Also, I believe that the contract is specific to the SKU. So a TV with a minor feature change would be a different item, as would a different count of items in a multi-pack. For example, poppi sodas have a 12 pack on Amazon and a 15 pack on Costco’s website for the same price.

      • Iloveluigi@feddit.orgEnglish
        1·
        1 个月前

        I agree that one should always add this general warning whenever they are mentioned. I can’t see how they benefit from my visit if i am using ublock origin and remove all the relevant cookies and parts of the url that would give them a commission.

  • a887dcd7a@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 个月前

    Actually I had it the other way around. The item on amazon was like 25€ and on Galaxus 19€+3€ shipping, so basically the same.

    In case of other products it was super helpful to have a product/shopping search going (like idealo) to find the lowest bidder.

    But in sum I find the product search on amazon more convinient: I start there just to search different shops for the found product 😈.

  • tab@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    1 个月前

    I consider amazon as not even an option. If I think other prices are too steep, I just don’t buy things or save up. It helps not to compare the prices.

  • endeavor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    1·
    1 个月前

    Amazon has good pricing and availability.

    • Local shops had nilfisk pressure washer o ring kit for 50 eur.

    • Amazon had it for 10. And even that is overpriced.

    • Local espresso cleaning tablets (8 pack) are like 16 eur.

    • Amazon has them for 10 eur. Oh and its a bottle of 100 cleaning tablets.

    • Spray booths are like 200 eur here at local hobby store.

    • Amazon has the same one for like 80.

    For that money I’ll gladly sell out the yanks to russia and destroy local pop and mom shops. Not to mention things like battery powered lightbulbs, iwata gas stoves, popular IEMS, other small weird odds and ends do not exist outside of amazon.