Amazon.ie

Just to give my 2c on Amazon.ie - I've ordered a few things now (free Prime because Eir gave it to me). So far the prices have either been more or less the same or, in some cases, cheaper on the Irish site. So if Amazon IE has what I want I'm happy to order there. But I will say that the overall stock does seem much lower than UK. And way more searches have EU stuff. I needed a new keyboard, so this was tricky as loads of options had the ISO layout (annoying but manageable) or EU layouts like AZERTY or QWERTZ which would have been no-gos. Just meant a bit more searching was needed. One other thing I noticed is that the list of filter options is much less on Irish site than UK.

Because I get free Prime on Irish site now, I'll likely use that going forward. If I didn't have free Prime I'd probably not get Prime on either UK or Ireland and just manage when needed (e.g. pay for 1 month's prime if a lot of orders expected).

The fact we have both sites available to us (for now at least) isn't a bad thing. But I do presume they'll shift more to Irish site going forward and wouldn't be surprised if UK Prime Delivery will stop covering Ireland in due course.

In amazon.co.uk they let me refund the 12 month payment and pay monthly. Check the Manage Prime section in your Amazon.ie account page...

there's discounts on uk on some Amazon devices, don't seem to have applied them here though

It's currently £49.15 (€58.56) on Amazon UK and €58.12 on Amazon Ireland.

I noticed that Amazon IE requires all "Sold by Amazon" items to be from the same Amazon region to qualify for free delivery over €25 without Prime. For example, I had a replacement air fryer handle sold by Amazon UK priced at €18.17 and a T-Shirt sold by Amazon IE priced at €8.79 in my basket, totalling €26.96, but it said I needed to add €16.21 to qualify for free delivery.

If I added something sold by Amazon UK to bring the total sold by Amazon UK over €25, that part of my basket would quality for free delivery, but not the item in my basket sold by Amazon IE and the same vice versa.

One workaround I found with some items is to click the "Other sellers on Amazon" and check if there is a "Sold by Amazon" region that matches the other items in my basket. In this example, the Air Fryer handle was only sold by Amazon UK, so I checked the T-Shirt and saw it is also sold by Amazon UK in the other sellers list:

After adding the slightly more expensive UK option to my basket and deleting the Amazon IE item, it gave me free delivery:

You can start a new viral trend NoMadrasMay! 😂

Is it actually cheaper to order toilet paper from Amazon than buying in the shops? Lidl were doing nine rolls for €1.75 last week. I haven't seen it that cheap for a while.

is there an option for used toilet roll on Amazon?

Had my first experience of Amazon free delivery being akward.
On the Amazon free delivery info page it says that there's free del if the item is shipped by Amazon.ie and/or the combined total is over the 25 Euro. But they also do this for Amazon UK items. But not a mixture of both...

I was a few cents short of free del with items from Amazon UK, but struggled to find something small value from Amazon UK to make up the difference. If I added something small that shipped from Amazon IE, it then wanted to charge me 3.99 Euro for both - separate delivery charges for both the Amazon UK and Amazon Ireland items. Kinda annoying.

I only have UK Prime but weirdly the items were considerably cheaper on Amazon IE than the UK, even when they are shipping from the UK, making it worthwhile. Go figure.

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I will be banging every amazon link from hotukdeals into this. Nice one.

To save yourself any potential grief, I would suggest removing the Irish Tricolour from the entire island. Otherwise, great itility.