in case you were unfamiliar https://camelcamelcamel.com/ does this for amazon
This makes it difficult for a human being trying to buy things to compare the prices, let alone a series of scripts.
With the EEA being what it is, I'm really surprised they can keep afloat since ordering from literally anywhere else ought to be cheaper just by labour costs involved alone. These days even Amazon.de doesn't get many of my orders anymore since they're reselling the exact same crap Aliexpress has for a quarter of the price.
As such if you're trying to sell to anyone who's not in the same purchasing power range or higher (aka literally nobody when it comes to Switzerland) you'll run into problems as you can't compete with vendors operating at lower costs in those countries. It's just basic arithmetic.
That's what makes Switzerland one of the worst places one could manufacture and/or stock things and China one of the best. Exploitation of the poor is the optimal business choice, after all it's the very foundation upon which capitalism itself is built.
Toppreise and google shopping (yeah…) often can find better deals on the same items even after shipping.
Personally, I prefer paying a few francs more and in return get the certainty that I get what I ordered reasonably fast.
I never had a problem with deliveries from them, alas, high ticket items I picked up personally.
The only one time where they couldn't deliver a couple of USB chargers for a couple weeks because it was out of stock and the supplier couldn't supply I cancelled the pending order and had the money credited to my credit card.
Not having to deal with some dodgy outfit is worth the slight surcharge to me.
I wouldn’t pay 20% more but 5 or even 10% is reasonable.
That's how you do VAT, compared to all EU countries around who screw their population left and right because they have big public debts and getting worse, while employing armies of unemployable bureaucrats who do almost nothing and have ridiculous safety and social nets.
The world could learn a thing or two on how Swiss run things in general and especially government stuff, but the problem is this is not transferable elsewhere, people are simply... different to be polite.
Best example is a Brezel. A fresh Brezel is like $4, but a buttered one (done by human) $8-$9.
Not the butter is expensive. Humans just get proper money for their work.
They didn’t seem to reach Day 2 yet either.
If Bezos and company weren’t being either disingenuous or delusional, Amazon has reached day two years ago.
Super clean, very logical, everything exactly you'd expect it to be, superb filtering system for searching through long product lists, etc. It's also super-snappy, at least from within Switzerland.
But still it's the best we have...
I've started using this as much as possible, especially during christmas. You find something, "in stock", supposed to be delivered the next day or a day after, you order, then nothing one day, two days, three days, then you call, "yeah, it's still with the distributed, it'll be ready tomorrow", two more days pass, you call again, want a refund, they "cannot refund now", because the product is supposedly in the mail already, then you wait, christmas goes by, and around 15. january you get a call, that they cannot get the item you wanted, and try to upsell some either more expensive or worse option.
Now I just order for physical pickup and "pay there" option.. and if it's not there, cancelling is easy, because they don't have your money yet, and they cannot lie about the item being already sent.
Nowadays people prefer to use UPI[1] over cash in even local store counters making India the largest real-time payment transactions country.
Its amazing that both of those happened within a decade, Largely synonymous with mobile compute & Internet penetration.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Payments_Interface
This is now a law enforced in European Union to display such history (at least the lowest price in last 30 or more days so customer knows if the price was not fake rised just before lowering it and calling it a sale). WooCommerce has a plugin for that now[1].
I've never noticed it, maybe it's not in an obvious place.
and screenshot
"Najniższa ostatnia cena: 179zł" just under the price is the text required by EU directive.
That suggests a really sorry state of things, not something to copy. Online payments shouldn't be harder than physically going to a store and paying for the item.
Why ?
It's probably more energy efficient to have trucks going to the few branches for pickups than to every single individual house.
I don't see why it "shouldn't" be, especially since it's optional
> That suggests a really sorry state of things,
The really sorry state of things are people ordering toilet paper &co in same day delivery on amazon because they can't bother walking 5 min to the closest store
Is this a serious question? Why should online payments be so difficult that it makes sense to spend even 2 minutes getting out of the door and walking to a store directly across the street? You autofill your card information and click "pay".
>The really sorry state of things are people ordering toilet paper &co in same day delivery on amazon because they can't bother walking 5 min to the closest store
But why? It's cheaper on Amazon.
Also all the stores trying to railroad me into buying delivery instead of just telling me which store has it in stock.
Amazon does not even support sitemaps. (They did in the early days.)
Only Twint is just as easy as paying with crypto.
Uh, gotta disagree here, speaking as a regular Galaxus shopper in both en & fr locales. The automated translations are mostly terrible when not entirely misleading or vulgar. For instance, the French ones are so bad there are Twitter accounts dedicated to them[1]. This applies to both product titles and descriptions.
To be fair, this is not surprising: the machine translator has very little to work with when translating short product names, in addition to these being full of puns (in whatever source language) or English-looking words for marketing purposes. It's a shame no ML company seems to have taken the opportunity to fine-tune their model for product name translation and sell that for $$$ to big marketplaces.
- price history so you can see when sales are fake
- one click "deliver to my closest branch and I will pick it up and pay there so I don't have to muck around with online payments" option
- automatic high quality translation of all product information and reviews into all offered languages
- simple downloads on order page for invoice and receipt
And many other things. Some things are still annoying like they don't accept cards from some countries, but they get a lot right.