I'm willing to pay a bit extra to avoid Amazon and buy local where possible for this very reason. It's rare that I need anything urgently and have no problem waiting a few days for a purchase. Have found the service to be very good from most Irish online retailers. Have even sent back an incorrect item that a retailer told me to keep. Item would have ended up in the bin. Minor inconvenience to prevent more waste. As @sharkattack says it comes down to the kind of society we want in the future.But it comes down to what kind of society we want in the future.
But they've only had twenty years to prepareI try to shop on local\irish websites but there still seems to be so many that don't get it right.
No postage if you have Prime for those products that are marked with the Prime logo.@odyssey06 Just be careful that Amazon does not combine postage when ordering a blitz of items or you may get stung if the value of the package goes over 22 euro
Not if you use amazon.de which has more or less the same collection of products as amazon.co.uk.Now if Amazon groups these transactions (which they do all the time) and sends them together your package is now valued more than the €22 cutoff and you are now liable for import duties.
Doesn't really and you can't use Prime with Amazon.de so you'll end up paying postage.Not if you use amazon.de which has more or less the same collection of products as amazon.co.uk.
Specifically on the delivery though it's hard to see what many Irish retailers can do on low priced items, absorbing the cost of an post or courier postage would be too much.So, there you have it:-
Free postage from Amazon and its delivered in 42 hours from ordering.
And €4.92 for postage from an Irish company and its not even dispatched yet !
Irish online sellers REALLY need to get their act together, but I fear it is already too late.
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