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My biggest Amazon annoyance. I'm often looking for some product, reading Reddit and other reviews. They usually link to amazon.com. Then it asks me to switch m
by carlmr 1y ago
My biggest Amazon annoyance. I'm often looking for some product, reading Reddit and other reviews. They usually link to amazon.com.
Then it asks me to switch my profile to American/$. But then in order to order I need to switch back to Germany/€.
It's just super cumbersome. Just let me view stuff from any region without switching profiles. If I order from that region you can tell me to switch profiles. But not just for viewing it.
In the same vein. Why is there no, I want this thing, but from a German seller.
- Nition 1y agoReminds me of when someone links to a product on some (non-Amazon) website, I go there, it says "this is the US site, you should go to the [your country] site!", I click OK, and it takes me to the homepage.
- opan 1y agoI get this from the Nothing (phone) emails, the direct links in them go to the UK site, but if I let it redirect me to the US site, it's just the homepage. Extremely annoying.
- qwertox 1y agoWith Amazon it's even worse, if you click on an US Amazon product link on an Android device: My app is set to use Amazon in Germany. I click a link on a page and this opens the app. The app says it needs to switch to US. If I do that, I'm signed out of my German account and end up in an empty US account. I also think that I didn't even land on the product page afterwards. So I had to sign out of that US account and re-sign in into the German account to use the app normally. So I basically just can't see the link unless I long-press and select open in new tab.
- throwaway6612 1y agoThis is also infuriating for all those sites that take to their homepage when you log in instead of taking you back to the page you were viewing.
- 0xTJ 1y agoIt doesn't work in all cases, but I can often replace the .com with .ca. It doesn't guarantee availability, but can at least check if the same listing is available on the Canadian store.
- carlmr 1y agoIf it works in some cases it's a simple lookup if the same item exists then show that. And if not you can show similar products in your region.
- chupchap 1y agoIt doesn't work that way. A link is to an ASIN (unique product in Amazon). The same product might have a different ASIN in a different region. The product description, title etc might vary.
- cobbzilla 1y agoClearly there exists some higher-level product concept with a mapping of country->ASIN for that product. How hard is it to lookup the correct ASIN? Maybe you end up on the home page when there is no ASIN for your country? There should be a nicer message telling you that’s what happened. But if it always dumps to the home page, that’s just dumb — Amazon could easily do the lookup.
- LeifCarrotson 1y agoThere's no such mapping, you could do a text search and if the item name matches then maybe US ASIN 2785334 should correspond to UK ASIN 3894948, or maybe some third party just named something ambiguously. They're essentially GUIDs and essentially separate businesses.
- zoover2020 1y agoSorry this is just not true. ASINs can be the same cross marketplace. There are lower level identifiers available if needed
- LeifCarrotson 1y agoTo be precise, sometimes there are matching ASINs and other identifiers cross-marketplace, but often they are unique.
- nilamo 1y agoWe all recognize this as an anti-pattern that has directly led to a poor customer experience, right?
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- MagerValp 1y ago> In the same vein. Why is there no, I want this thing, but from a German seller. eBay used to let you filter results by region, but apparently that ruined some kind of metric and the option is gone. When buying games or books or what have you I only want sellers in the EU. I don’t care that it’s available in the US or UK, shipping and duties are going to be 4x what the product is worth.
- jodrellblank 1y agoThis https://i.imgur.com/fTRrVnP.png https://i.imgur.com/fTRrVnP.png is not gone, look it's right there.
- Symbiote 1y agoIt was gone for years, it's useful that they've recently restored the option.
- MagerValp 1y agoIt’s gone for me, and there are a lot of frustrated support threads from other Europeans so I’m not alone. I managed to find the option on the advanced search on ebay.ie, but I still get page after page of American items as the result…
- jp1016 1y agoits a pain, and the option to switch it back is hidden inside the accounts section, which is hard to find and even take 3-4 clicks.