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You think Amazon search is broken for you? Try living in a semi-supported country, like Ireland, Poland or Switzerland. There is no "only items that ship to my

by lrem 7y ago

You think Amazon search is broken for you? Try living in a semi-supported country, like Ireland, Poland or Switzerland. There is no "only items that ship to my country" in search. And on top of that, I've hit items that would ship as seen on product details, but only during checkout I would learn that shipping the $20 smartphone-sized item would be $250.

ryanlol 7y ago
Does this really happen while using the euro Amazons? It sounds like you might be ordering from .com, in which case the same thing would happen in “supported countries”.
- NeedMoreTea 7y ago
  Even .co.uk that has a healthy level of UK product, does not let you exclude "Amazon Global" .com items as though you would be quite happy to pay £30 shipping, VAT and import fees on branded £50 jeans. IIRC you can't exclude global marketplace from search either. eBay has a UK only tick box. Mostly there are aren't too many Global items, but in clothing particularly they can crowd out the rest, and seem to intentionally block the exact same item if it's not directly from Amazon UK. It can be quite frustrating, particularly as many are stuff UK used to carry. Though it's not among the main contributors to why I rarely use Amazon much at all any more.
  - ryanlol 7y ago
    Looks like on Amazon UK filtering for Prime (even if you're not in a Prime country) gets rid of the Global items, IME this is the only reasonable way to shop on Amazon anyway. Amazon without the Prime filter is just Ebay with much worse prices and UX.
- Strom 7y ago
  Yes this most definitely happens with the euro Amazons. In fact, it's the .com Amazon that seems to be running a newer version / experiment lately where sometimes the search only shows stuff that ships to my configured address. The most annoying thing however is when the search contains an item, then the description on the item's dedicated page has text that specifically says that the item will ship to my address, but then during checkout I get an error message saying that the specific item can't be shipped after all. Feels like the description page text is determined willy-nilly and it's not until the checkout that they take into account the package size and weight. However I sometimes do want to see what's available even without direct shipping to me, because if the item is cheap enough or rare enough, it will be worth using a reshipping service in whatever country Amazon does ship to.
4ad 7y ago
It's even worse than that. SOMETIMES there's a "show only sellers that ship to $FOO" option, but not always. Terrible experience.
royce 7y ago
Or Alaska or Hawaii - same problem (shipping restrictions invisible until checkout). It's insane. They know exactly where I live.

by lrem 7y ago

ryanlol 7y ago

Does this really happen while using the euro Amazons? It sounds like you might be ordering from .com, in which case the same thing would happen in “supported countries”.

NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Even .co.uk that has a healthy level of UK product, does not let you exclude "Amazon Global" .com items as though you would be quite happy to pay £30 shipping, VAT and import fees on branded £50 jeans. IIRC you can't exclude global marketplace from search either. eBay has a UK only tick box. Mostly there are aren't too many Global items, but in clothing particularly they can crowd out the rest, and seem to intentionally block the exact same item if it's not directly from Amazon UK. It can be quite frustrating, particularly as many are stuff UK used to carry. Though it's not among the main contributors to why I rarely use Amazon much at all any more.
- ryanlol 7y ago
  Looks like on Amazon UK filtering for Prime (even if you're not in a Prime country) gets rid of the Global items, IME this is the only reasonable way to shop on Amazon anyway. Amazon without the Prime filter is just Ebay with much worse prices and UX.
Strom 7y ago
Yes this most definitely happens with the euro Amazons. In fact, it's the .com Amazon that seems to be running a newer version / experiment lately where sometimes the search only shows stuff that ships to my configured address. The most annoying thing however is when the search contains an item, then the description on the item's dedicated page has text that specifically says that the item will ship to my address, but then during checkout I get an error message saying that the specific item can't be shipped after all. Feels like the description page text is determined willy-nilly and it's not until the checkout that they take into account the package size and weight. However I sometimes do want to see what's available even without direct shipping to me, because if the item is cheap enough or rare enough, it will be worth using a reshipping service in whatever country Amazon does ship to.

4ad 7y ago

It's even worse than that. SOMETIMES there's a "show only sellers that ship to $FOO" option, but not always. Terrible experience.

royce 7y ago

Or Alaska or Hawaii - same problem (shipping restrictions invisible until checkout). It's insane. They know exactly where I live.