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Price on Amazon vs price on other shops makes it hard to avoid Amazon sometimes (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 4 months ago by Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/39071513

Anyone else struggling to avoid Amazon because of the price of some things? I need 3M Tegaderm for example and on Amazon it cost 28โ‚ฌ for 10cm by 10m roll and on other sites that are not Amazon I can only find it for pretty much double the price (shop-apotheke.com has it for 58,40โ‚ฌ https://www.shop-apotheke.com/arzneimittel/3816512/3m-tegaderm-roll-10-cm-x-10-m.htm and medizinbedarf.eu has it for 49,60โ‚ฌ https://www.medizinbedarf.eu/3M-Tegaderm-Roll-Transparentverband-unsteril-10-cm-x-10-m). Stuff like this really makes it difficult.

Anyone know where I can find this as cheap as on Amazon or at least not much more expensive?

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[โ€“] clmbmb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago

That's exactly what Amazon is doing and did for a long time: sell stuff at a very very low profit (or none at all) and make the competition go bust. If we would all buy it from the competitors, little by little in time the price will level - theoretically speaking.

[โ€“] technohippie@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It isn't that bad, I started to buy locally and it's true that sometimes it is a bit more expensive but just for a few euros, and sometimes it is the same price.

I also found that if you look for the original vendor site you'll find it probably cheaper than amazon.

And on the other hand cancelling prime will save me 50โ‚ฌ a year.

Let's not sell our souls and destroy our local economies for saving a few bucks that won't go anywhere anyway.

[โ€“] Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I agree with you up to a point. There is a difference between paying a few euros more and paying almost double. Fortunately I found an alternative shop with pretty much the same price.

[โ€“] technohippie@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

And that's the thing, you found it, yes?

As an example for Spain, the product you say it is for 35โ‚ฌ on Amazon: https://www.amazon.es/Tegaderm-Roll-10/dp/B00E633SK6

And here for 26โ‚ฌ: https://farmaciachaves.es/vendas-y-esparadrapos/12932-3m-tegaderm-roll-10-x-10-cm-1-u.html

And here for 23โ‚ฌ: https://medicamarquet.com/tienda/material-desechable/curas/apositos/rollo-de-lamina-transparente-16004s-10-cm-x-10-m-3m-tegaderm/

It even beats the 28โ‚ฌ price you found on your amazon.

So Amazon = Cheaper is not true.

[โ€“] StrangeMed@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not only that, but the super fast shipping included in Prime subscription, make it even harder cancel it

[โ€“] StrangeMed@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

All you forget that with prime you donโ€™t pay the shipping cost, thatโ€™s the biggest convenience in my opinion