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What sites have a significantly better shopping experience?

• mrweasel 4y ago
  Pretty much any site local to your country. Amazons search is broken, finding anything is a major hassle and many of the search results are in fact ads. Checkout is horrible, Amazon cannot, or will not, give you the actual price until the very last page on the checkout flow. Shipping costs are horrendous, often shipping 30 - 50% of the actual cost. Random items cannot be shipped, for some reason you might be able to have a shirt shipped if you pick "small" or "XL", but not not "Medium" or "Large". But you can't tell the site to ignore any items that you can't buy anyway, so filtering is a manual process. Which reminds me, why does Amazon even pretend to have filters, they don't work. The only reason to shop at Amazon anymore is selection. There are a ton of products and books I cannot buy locally. Amazon is often the only company that will sell and ship to Denmark.
• herbst 4y ago
  AliExpress: - better search - delivery time suggestions usually match - way better customer support - No questions asked money back if the item is poor or delivery to slow - Not believing you buy a eco brand product when you actually just buy a rebrand from China anyway. The reality is 90% of the shit on Amazon is straight out of China. There is no reason other than lazyness to not import it yourself.
  • sokoloff 4y ago
    I’m a big fan of Aliexpress and used to buy a fair amount from there after finding it on Amazon. Now, if I see something on Aliexpress, I’ll check to see if it’s just as cheap or slightly cheaper on Amazon. Much of Aliexpress has inflated away the deep savings that were there in the 2014-2019 era.