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Are Amazon giving up on Ireland

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  • #32
    Cina
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,395 ✭✭✭Cina


    TallGlass wrote: »
    Well Cina, by your logic, Tesco, TKMaxx, Argos, M&S, Iceland, should never have set up here. Tesco do better here than the do in the UK and that's as you even said a bigger market.

    Sorry but I don't buy it at all, nothing wrong with the market here at all. Amazon would do very very well here IMO.

    As for your comment about the Pixel, have a bit of respect for owners/fans of your devices in your host HQ country in the EU and make the stock available. It's embarrassing that literally 100km from there HQ you can buy a Pixel as it's in the UK.
    Well it's not by my logic at all because you've just named a bunch of retailers who sell goods in their stores. The only way for them to access the Irish market is to actually come here and open stores.

    Amazon, as an online retailer, can simply sell to us from their UK store and let us pay for delivery or use parcelmotel, so what's the point of them setting up a warehouse and site here when they don't need to do so? Don't you think one of the world's biggest companies would've done so if they actually thought they could increase their profits from it? I'm really not sure why this is so hard to grasp.


  • #33
    Occono
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,096 ✭✭✭Occono


    Cina wrote: »
    Amazon, as an online retailer, can simply sell to us from their UK store and let us pay for delivery or use parcelmotel, so what's the point of them setting up a warehouse and site here when they don't need to do so? Don't you think one of the world's biggest companies would've done so if they actually thought they could increase their profits from it? I'm really not sure why this is so hard to grasp.

    Well they would seeing as the UK site has always, and continues to be, a pain to use in Ireland.

    There are some things on there I just don't know where else I can buy from. I think there's an opportunity they're missing.


  • #34
    godskitchen
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    If Amazon thought they could make money operating a warehouse here, they would open one.

    The problem they would have is, many of the items would be say, 1-5% more expensive than the UK site and people would just shop there instead to save €2


  • #35
    Cina
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,395 ✭✭✭Cina


    Occono wrote: »
    Well they would seeing as the UK site has always, and continues to be, a pain to use in Ireland.

    There are some things on there I just don't know where else I can buy from. I think there's an opportunity they're missing.

    And everyone still uses it because we don't have an alternative. It's cheaper than the stores that are set up here, and as said above, if they opened a store here it'd probably be more expensive anyway.


  • #36
    Asus X540L
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    Do Amazon Germany or France do free shipping over a certain amount?


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  • #37
    Shougeki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 933 ✭✭✭Shougeki


    Asus X540L wrote: »
    Do Amazon Germany or France do free shipping over a certain amount?

    Not to Ireland, AFAIK


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