Finally happened. Wonder will we still get same bargains as UK site??
I think you have to get onto chat and ask them to transfer your uk account to the Irish account.
Before you jump on and do that I'd have a read of the other threads on the Amazon Ireland topic.
You can probably use a new account on Amazon Ireland and get free Prime for at least 30 days rather than give up the UK Prime before you really know if Amazon Ireland will meet your needs.
Yeah OP, DON'T do that!
Yes, I did that and got the 30 day trial.
Agree. I’ve stuck with my UK account.
I was looking to buy a pair of Converse Chuck Taylors and they're a little less expensive on the Irish site.
Where I can I get this 10 euro discount?
Is it for new account only?
I think the promocode was just "welcome10", not sure if it's still valid or not?
You know that "import charges" is actually UK VAT substituted for Irish Vat? ~There is no customs duty for importing computers. I am looking at buying an Asus laptop and the .IE site has it cheaper than the UK site, even though the .IE says its fulfilled by Amazon UK…
Said already used for me. Maybe only for first time signups...
Do you get a VAT receipt/invoice for any of this though? I'm registered to buy VAT free off any of the other euro amazon sites, but they're all useless for laptops due to the different keyboard layouts. You could buy VAT free off the UK site up until Brexit. If I got a VAT invoice from Amazon stating the 23% VAT against their Irish VAT number then yes this would be fine, but no way of knowing what the invoice would look like until I purchase.
Toilet paper is not a bad deal, much cheaper than UK - £6.80, £3.38, £9.00, ? I just picked one brand example
I ordered an SD card on the Irish site yesterday, slightly cheaper than UK. Was due for delivery today but didn't arrive - was sent out and sorted by An Post last night so not Amazon's fault. I ordered some Tapo smart plugs today and again almost exactly the same price IE or UK. A lot of stuff doesn't seem to be available (yet?) on the IE site though.
Very early days yet with regards to what's available in Irish warehouses. Marketing research will soon tell them what kind of products needs to be where.
In relation to delivery when it's An post unfortunately it's going to be way off.
Bought off the German amazon recently and the parcel spent more time in ireland then it did coming across Europe. Amazon refunded me on the postage price even though it was t there fault. Can't see them continuing to do that so your going to start seeing estimated delivery dates I reckon alot as apposed to a key date on its own.
Their first Irish warehouse was opened close to 3 years ago, they should know by now what is in demand.
Any sniff of rumours of a grocery hook-up like they do with Morrisons UK? The country is ripe for more grocery competition
Generally speaking An Post have always been spot on with my deliveries. I think I have had 2 issues ever in hundreds of deliveries.
They already know what items they ship to Ireland.
irish retailers should band together to make a local amazon alternative.
The lack of price change updates for items in the basket is a major annoyance. That thing is on on every other amazon site.
[Update] That service is present and working after all.
It gave me a price change update for that tablet I was asking about.
Oh, maybe it's glitching then. In fairness that happens from time to time on the other sites too that some price changes are not flagged, but generally it's pretty reliable.
This was on mobile btw. Maybe you're on a computer and it's different?
2 identical baskets both filled at the same time. .de v .ie😂
They have had a warehouse and at least 2 distro centers here for 3+ years, also they know exactly what has been delivered to Irish addresses from the UK site for over 2 decades.
Yes, but do they know we want power banks, batteries, cheaper generic medication, cheaper groceries, alcohol,…
Heard that the price of items on Amazon IE website is substantially higher that the Amazon UK website. More than 300% in some cases. So most of the people I talked to, seems to be sticking with the UK portal.
in a a word YES. Because they know how many sell from all their other sites and Ireland is no different other than lower population.
I'd say it varies from my own experience. I've not ordered anything from the IE site yet, but a few items I've my eye on are similarly priced if not slightly cheaper. Others are more expensive for sure though. However my prime sub on UK would see them delivered quicker from there, so swings and roundabouts.....
Noticed something about the free €25 delivery. There's the local IE free shipping offer as you'd expect but they also offer "eligible international items over €25"
Before Amazon uk had it lower but it increased it to £35 which made me buy a lot less often but if you're buying through Amazon IE for a product that's sold by amazon uk as seller or maybe a few other UK sellers then you can get that free shipping for €25.
I'd a few things in my basket and when I went to pay I saw it wanted shipping for one item as it was from Amazon UK as it was below the €25 I didn't buy it but tested adding more of that item.
Might be situations where the free shipping could benefit over buying from the UK for sub £35 items if you didn't have prime or the prices didn't differ too much.
Print sales are actually up. Waterstones sales are up.
I think people just prefer the physical book and also less of Amazon BS.
Amazon used to great, full of cheap tat and dubious sales tactics these days.
