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>Amazon doesn't even have a polish website, as amazon.pl redirects to amazon.de Someone at Amazon needs to understand what the single market is. amazon.eu is a
by pedrocr 8y ago
>Amazon doesn't even have a polish website, as amazon.pl redirects to amazon.de
Someone at Amazon needs to understand what the single market is. amazon.eu is an institutional site when it should be their only european site. When I want to buy something on amazon I end up looking at all of UK/FR/ES/DE/IT at least. They will all happily ship to me with all sorts of combinations of item price and shipping cost. And then logistically I believe they will ship from wherever it's convenient. So they've artificially segmented the market for no reason, giving me a poorer experience in the process.
- AnssiH 8y ago> segmented the market for no reason This probably allows them to maximize profits, e.g. most French people probably won't go look at Amazon Spain to see if the graphics card they want is cheaper there... You are correct in that Amazon EU has common stock despite the products having different prices on the different regional sites.
- pedrocr 8y agoPrice discrimination would be a reason to do this but then it's strange that they'll ship from every website to me and have a single login. They've even recently allowed changing the language on a few of the websites. But maybe they're just changing the prices per-user in the US and can't do that in the EU so they do it per site? Whatever it is it results in a really bad user experience.