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Amazon is no more (for me)
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Finally closed an episode which started cool & nice, accompanied me half of my life, took me to many different countries, but went toxic over the years. Still bit sad.
I’ve never bought anything there, and I’m not really sure what you’d buy there anyway... Very technical things?
For normal household goods, I buy from bol.com or from the webstore of whatever results come up in an internet search.
Books I buy from De Slegte (secondhand) or Donner, but these are also my favourite (physical) book stores. Especially Donner has a beautiful and impressive store in the center of Rotterdam.
Electronics I buy from Coolblue or physically in a Mediamarkt.
Cheap junk I get from Action, Xenos or other random junk stores. I’ve bought from TEMU twice, but I don’t think I will again. I don’t really need to. I’ve also bought from ebay once.
This is all very Netherlands-centric, of course.
The thing is, you can buy anything at amazon and with prime the delivery cost is capped at your prime fee. I can buy my specific brand of cloth diapers and a university textbook and violin raisin and a new hoover. All at amazon.
Recently I'm ditching amazon for other stores, so yeah, you don't need it but frankly, it's convenient af. I still look for many things on amazon first to decide what I actually want to have.
I suppose it’s what you’re used to. I’ve since before I knew of Amazon’s existence just used Google to find stores where I can buy what I’m looking for. And then I generally pick the cheapest shop. I’ve simply continued what I was used to doing anyway.
Though I also already never went with Amazon even if it was cheapest, as it was yet another American service.