Amazon Prime Bargains - Chat Thread

They're always shite - regardless of region.

You're more likely to pick up bargains outside of these artificial sale periods.

Update: Bought the 6 in 1 dock from Amazon UK for €24 today for delivery tomorrow in their Spring Sale, still €40 on the Amazon IE!

Also bought a Meta 3 docking station on Amazon IE with other stuff to use up the €10 off €50 and delivery is April 2nd, wtf!

Probably because they ship from their .DE warehouse as some of the delivery dates are mad for a local delivery.

Ordered stuff from UK on Monday for delivery Wednesday worth €9, same from .IE was €22.50 with delivery on April 2-4.

Yep - its caused by browser security settings. I used a different browser with less restrictive settings and it worked no problem.

I ordered a 10 TB hard drive on amazon.ie and they delivered a clear nail polish instead!!!

PS: I jest, I knew what I was getting into. The listing was messed up - the picture and the price was that of a nail polish, but the title read 10 TB hard drive - So I ordered it just to see - and yeah, it was the nail polish.

Jeff Bloody Bezos etc :D :D

I ordered an item from Amazon.ie in one colour, but around 2 hours later the person who wanted it changed their mind for a different colour. It was around €8 cheaper than .co.uk.

No problem, I thought. Something similar happened me before on .co.uk and the cancellation was painless as it was not yet dispatched.

It sat for 2 days in "we're cancelling your order" status. I ordered the correct colour near the end of day 2 as the person needed the item. Then within 3 hours the new item dispatched, along with the unwanted one - with a message "cancellation failed".

Now I'm not sure if this is a .ie thing but on .co.uk they seem a lot quicker to act on these types of issues.

Yes, I know I should have waited to re-order until the cancellation either succeeded or failed but the person needed the item soon. Also, I can't just refuse delivery for the unwanted one as they're arriving in the same package. I'll have to do a return @ €3.99.

It might be useful info to someone.

lol I looked at that url because I thought it was for a set of plastic boxes ;-)

Was there some promo code for using the ie site? I thought something like a €20 code came up for me a few days ago, but can't find it now.

Also have Prime on UK site, guessing the consensus is to leave it there for the moment?

https://amzn.eu/d/2xQO3Kb

Was looking into some of the e-ink tablets, Scribe seems a good option if you can get it at a cheaper price to others, especially if you use a Kindle for reading also.

The Scribe was only released in Nov/Dec 2024,so this is the first real discount opportunity, but it is the lowest price it has been per camel camel.

They have the 20% trade in offer on top of that, so if you have a Kindle that you could upgrade, you can trade it in for a further 20% off, plus a gift card if between £5 and £30 I think. I contacted customer support, shared my trade in reference, they told me to buy the Scribe and once I've confirmation of receipt of the trade in to get on to customer support and they'll retrospectively apply the 20% refund.

If buying from the UK, best if you can use OohPod etc to avoid duties. Amazingly, it's actually slightly cheaper on Amazon.ie but they don't do the trade in option, however you should save on the duties if the trade in discount is not a consideration.

Interesting chat in the no chat thread about that travel adapter. Personally speaking I have a little bit more faith in the safety of items actually sold by Amazon than 3rd party sellers. I had a shítty similar version from AliExpress and that went in the bin straight away, just reeked of fire hazard.

I honestly find it hilarious that one single report of it catching fire out of almost 500 reviews was enough to dissaude people from buying.

If you look up practically ANY electronic on Amazon, you'll find at least one review complaining of it overheating and / or being a fire hazard.

Anyways - quick little tip that may or may not help others!

If you're on Amazon UK and don't have Prime, you need to spend £35 to avail of Free Super Saver Delivery.

If you're on Amazon IE and don't have Prime, you need to spend €25 to avail of Free Super Saver Delivery.

If you do spot a bargain on Amazon UK, you can change the domain from .co.uk → .ie and you'll get the Irish representation obviously selling on Amazon Ireland in €.

e.g
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Amazon-Ocean-Exclusive-Vinyl-VINYL/dp/B09QQT2TM7/ → https://www.amazon.ie/Amazon-Ocean-Exclusive-Vinyl-VINYL/dp/B09QQT2TM7/

As below:

You'll notice the price is potentially different and considerably more expensive - but if you click '3 New from £10.33', you'll potentially be able to buy from Amazon UK as a seller which should be "similar" to the sterling price bar a negligible price difference - as below:

The advantage here is that you only need to spend €25 to get Free Super Saver Delivery (providing the items added combined are €25+ and sold by Amazon UK).

Might be obvious to some, but said I'd just flag as an option.