Buy European

Amazen has killed nearly all of them before we recognized what's going on. But recently a few have started to grow up again.

In Germany there’s Otto which is okay. I try to buy more from specialized shops these days like alternate or mindfactory for pc parts, Bauhaus for household items or directly from manufacturers when it makes sense.

I only ever buy from amazon if items are not available elsewhere or unreasonable more expensive which was 3 times this year.

I use galaxus, kaufland or otto in germany if i want something new. Backmarket or rebuy for used tech with a guarantee and really everything else i just use kleinanzeigen most of the time

amazon is bottom-of-the-barrel in sweden. our local alternatives feel like they're 10+ years ahead, and that's after amazon played catch-up for the better part of two years. when they launched they had just machine-translated everything and the results were insane.

For people living in Spain, https://www.coolmod.com/ is quite good. I only bought one keyboard for them earlier this year, but the delivery was fast and the tracking good. The website was intuitive too.

I had a good experience with the refurbished electronics market place Back Market in France (sound bar, ipad, keyboard, mouse, cooking robot, laptop). I haven't used it in a while as I moved outside of EU.

Bol.com is much better. Has been since time immemorial.

In Switzerland Galaxus overtook Amazon years ago. Brack appears to be improving lately, offering faster delivery options.

I don't want to end up with a duplicate Amazon problem though, so for 3rd party sellers on Galaxus, if they have their own website, I often buy directly from them.

I've completely switched to Otto, and I'm pretty content so far. Only problem is that the choice of products isn't quite as broad

France has cdiscount.com, usually cheaper.. they dont sell books though

allegro.pl, has always been better than amazon, nothing changed

In Hungary: Allegro, Alza, Emag. Alza has next day delivery, Amazon doesn't

Here in Greece we have skroutz, bestprice and shopflix, small local shops in (one) website. Way better than amazon and faster, but prices not always good. For example macboot card cost's 25, while on amazon 14.

Otto's been good, although some sellers are a bit slow

I've lived in Poland and Sweden.

In Poland, Allegro dominates, it's much more convenient than Amazon.

In Sweden, I used Amazon once. There is no other general website like that I know of for first-hand stuff, buy you can get half-price new stuff from sites like Tradera or Blocket, or Vinted (very European), or Sellpy. I would try to pass by a charity store first, but for example for shoes it is very hard to find what I am looking for and in size 47 there.

For first-hand stuff, in Sweden, I just search (or know websites for the kind of product I am looking for), and rarely would Amazon be even competitive. For example, to buy books I often use Adlibris, and while it is not as nice as the local bookstore, they do sometimes have things I would have trouble finding otherwise (including a broad selection of books in English).

In lithuania amazon was never a thing :3.. local sites like pigu.lt varle.lt 1a.lt etc. was what everyone already used and so far I've had no issues with them

eBay has always been cheaper in Germany. And since Amazon doesn't really care about customer service and had high shipping costs it's almost never worth it.

Sometimes I use it to check the ratings of things.

droix.co.uk is nice

I use Libristo for books in English, which are pretty hard to come by in France. They've been okay so far, but the delivery times are a little long for my liking. I haven't used Amazon personally for ages, and I've convinced my wife to stop using them as well. I much prefer to order things from companies that are more specialised anyways; the one-stop-shop model is parasitic imo.