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Re:Amazon sellers are moving to alternative ecommerce platfo... by mrighele on Friday May 08, 2020 @05:06AM (#23112819)
On websites specialized on comparison shopping. I don't know about the US, but when I was in Italy I used to use a lot one of such websites [1]. Think like shopping on Amazon except that you are redirected to the seller's website for details and actually buying the product, no ads, no SEO, and the rating is about the seller, not the product.

On the other side, you no longer have a central entity helping you with issues such as warranty, scams etc, but given the behavior of late of Amazon, I don't think that it is a big deal.

[1] https://www.trovaprezzi.it

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Re:Amazon sellers are moving to alternative ecommerce platfo... by m4rtink on Friday May 08, 2020 @10:31AM (#23115214)
Same thing here in Czech Republic - you go to a comparison website, check the prizes, availability and reviews of both the think your are looking for and the shops selling them. Then you pick a shop and go to their website (in some cases there is also integration for buying directly via the comparison site).

The main Czech sites:

https://www.heureka.cz/

https://www.zbozi.cz/

It kinda seem like Amazon has been a bit too successful in some parts of the world, to the point people can't imagine alternative online shopping workflows.

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