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Does amazon even have a presence in austria? I thought it is handled from other countries.

by jkot 10y ago

hackerboos 10y ago
Searching for Amazon Austria brings up Amazon Germany's website, that site also serves the Dutch it seems.
- dwightgunning 10y ago
  Correct. I'm in Amsterdam and bought from amazon.de last night. I'll usually compare with amazon.co.uk for price and occasionally pay more because the supplier won't ship internationally. There are plenty of Dutch online retailers (e.g. bol.com and coolblue.nl) but their prices are significantly higher (even factoring the slight difference in VAT). Considering we're supposed to be in a "single market", I've never been able to figure out why that is.
throwaway13337 10y ago
Living in Austria right now, I know two Austrians out of the like five I know well that have amazon prime. I only know about it from those people because they order so much on amazon. They may be using amazon.de, but so are most central euro countries. In Denmark, people generally either buy from .de or .co.uk. Certainly people order less from amazon than in the states, but the presence is still pretty huge.
- ersii 10y ago
  I think the Original Poster that you're responding to mean presence literally, as the word is usually used. As in "Does Amazon have any facilities/staff etc in Austria?".
germanier 10y ago
They don't. Orders are handed over to their couriers abroad or transported by truck from Germany to the Austrian post at Allhaming.
- 4ad 10y ago
  Not true. I live in Vienna, and I order a few orders from amazon every day. Last year I had over 600 amazon.de orders. Generally I try to order only Prime stuff. The vast majority of orders (over 90%) come from Salzburg, Austria, although in a few occasions I even had same day shipping, those came from somewhere even closer.
  - germanier 10y ago
    They don't have any warehouse in Austria. This page has as far as I know the location of all their warehouses: http://www.mwpvl.com/html/amazon_com.html http://www.mwpvl.com/html/amazon_com.html The location printed on the label is the place they hand over the package (trucked from somewhere). I'm a bit surprised they seem to do that in such a volume in Salzburg. Previously they mostly used Allhaming (usually called Linz on packages). For example, most my packages in Germany are labelled "Radefeld - Direct" but they originate from Poland or the Czech Republic, not the Amazon logistics center near that. They also print a return address on the labels which is often another place distinct from outbound delivery (mostly Graben for me). Amazon uses multiple locations to accept packages and forward them to their warehouses. I don't know anything about their same-day logistics though. It's the first time I hear that for Austrian addresses and no mention on their homepage, too.
  - poopsintub 10y ago
    Multiple conflicting people about where their packages are coming from? What's the chance there is a wharehouse but they can't list it for obvious tax purposes. They might be subcontracting to another company?

Does amazon even have a presence in austria? I thought it is handled from other countries.

by jkot 10y ago

Does amazon even have a presence in austria? I thought it is handled from other countries.

hackerboos 10y ago

Searching for Amazon Austria brings up Amazon Germany's website, that site also serves the Dutch it seems.

dwightgunning 10y ago
Correct. I'm in Amsterdam and bought from amazon.de last night. I'll usually compare with amazon.co.uk for price and occasionally pay more because the supplier won't ship internationally. There are plenty of Dutch online retailers (e.g. bol.com and coolblue.nl) but their prices are significantly higher (even factoring the slight difference in VAT). Considering we're supposed to be in a "single market", I've never been able to figure out why that is.

throwaway13337 10y ago

Living in Austria right now, I know two Austrians out of the like five I know well that have amazon prime. I only know about it from those people because they order so much on amazon. They may be using amazon.de, but so are most central euro countries. In Denmark, people generally either buy from .de or .co.uk. Certainly people order less from amazon than in the states, but the presence is still pretty huge.

ersii 10y ago
I think the Original Poster that you're responding to mean presence literally, as the word is usually used. As in "Does Amazon have any facilities/staff etc in Austria?".

germanier 10y ago

They don't. Orders are handed over to their couriers abroad or transported by truck from Germany to the Austrian post at Allhaming.

4ad 10y ago
Not true. I live in Vienna, and I order a few orders from amazon every day. Last year I had over 600 amazon.de orders. Generally I try to order only Prime stuff. The vast majority of orders (over 90%) come from Salzburg, Austria, although in a few occasions I even had same day shipping, those came from somewhere even closer.
- germanier 10y ago
  They don't have any warehouse in Austria. This page has as far as I know the location of all their warehouses: http://www.mwpvl.com/html/amazon_com.html http://www.mwpvl.com/html/amazon_com.html The location printed on the label is the place they hand over the package (trucked from somewhere). I'm a bit surprised they seem to do that in such a volume in Salzburg. Previously they mostly used Allhaming (usually called Linz on packages). For example, most my packages in Germany are labelled "Radefeld - Direct" but they originate from Poland or the Czech Republic, not the Amazon logistics center near that. They also print a return address on the labels which is often another place distinct from outbound delivery (mostly Graben for me). Amazon uses multiple locations to accept packages and forward them to their warehouses. I don't know anything about their same-day logistics though. It's the first time I hear that for Austrian addresses and no mention on their homepage, too.
- poopsintub 10y ago
  Multiple conflicting people about where their packages are coming from? What's the chance there is a wharehouse but they can't list it for obvious tax purposes. They might be subcontracting to another company?