Amazon Prime Bargains - Chat Thread

The advantage of a .ie site, would be that you know everything listed there actually ships to Ireland, compared to the current mess on the .co.uk where you click on an item only to find that it won't ship here and then you spend ages searching for one that will. It can be very frustrating sometimes.

I'd assume if they do a .ie, you will still be able to buy from .co.uk, as you can from their .de, etc. sites at the moment. Likely it will even continue to use the same delivery infrastructure, drivers, etc. I notice buying from .de doesn't mean it always comes from Germany, often it still comes from UK warehouse. I suspect that will continue with the Irish warehouse, no matter which site you order from, they will devlier from the closest warehouse, either Irish, UK, etc. Amazon seem to get this part right and don't seem to put too many artificaial barriers between different regions.

The question would be more what would happen with the current free delivery from the UK. Ideally Prime would continue to cover deliveries from the UK site, along with .ie, but I'm not sure that will happen.

Either way I hope this warehouse means items like batteries, food, etc. that won't deliver from UK will become available.

"Just be careful what you wish for. I was using a European Amazon site for a while and they definitely had less products available than the UK site. Knowing they will ship every product is small consolation in my eyes."

Entire massive categories of products have stopped shipping to Ireland from .co.uk since Brexit!

Take Vitamins, it is almost impossible to buy any vitamins from .co.uk, Vit D, Vit C, etc. or any sort of medicine, all won't shop from .co.uk. Though ironically you can still easily get them from amazon.de

Coffee beans or any type of food or drink, won't ship from .co.uk since Brexit, but again will ship from .de

Any sort of battery or battery type product (powerbanks, etc.) won't ship from either uk or de.

Brexit has been a disaster in terms of getting many product categories from the UK. I still have my .co.uk prime account, but these days I buy almost as much from .de as .co.uk simply because they aren't available on .co.uk. Brexit has already greatly limited the range of products available to us from .co.uk. Whats the point of being able to see a product on .co.uk to only find it won't ship here!

I don't want to see a .ie limiting our choice or raising prices, but I do hope the warehouse will make all the above product categories available again with free delivery.

For those of us who are geeks and bargain hunters, we don't mind trying to work out sterling to euro conversion or searching multiple products to find one that will actually ship here and understand how the price increases at final checkout and not to worry about import duties, etc.

But I'd say the recent Brexit stuff has put a lot of ordinary Irish people off shopping at .co.uk, worrying about import duties, etc. and being frustrated by non shipping items. I can see a .ie being extremely popular with the general public, a site where everything you see can be ordered and the price you see in Euro is the price you pay.

In an ideal world, I wish a prime account worked across both .co.uk and all the European prime sites, .de, etc. You'd have the best of both worlds then. .ie for those who just wanted simplicity, .co.uk, etc. for us bargain hunters.

Errr... 6 months! These are prices I looked up right now, currently available today at those very significant price differences. Actually some bargains there for he Bargain alerts form :)

And I didn't cherry pick results, I just thought of some products that I thought would be commonly interesting and they were all cheaper on de right now. 7/7 I thought of looking up, not a single item was cheaper on UK.

Sure, some very cheap items like toiletries, cheap toys, etc. will tend to favour .co.uk, due to the free shipping on uk, versus having to pay €7 or €8 for shipping on .de I find the same myself and mostly use prime from UK for those type of cheaper items. I generally find anyting under say about €100 works out cheaper from uk, over €100 de is cheaper.

Of course I'd assume a .ie will have free shipping, so we might find it tipping in favour of an Irish site then again.

BTW Yes on the laptops having UK layout keyboard, I actually also looked up the price of a Macbook Air and it was almost €100 cheaper on de, but I didn't include it in the list as I remembered the keyboard issue, so not a fair comparison.

Overall, I wouldn't be so pessimistic about a .ie site and warehouse. I doubt it will have less products then the .co.uk, in fact I suspect it will have more as it will likely bring back the various missing categories (food, battery items, etc) and I also wouldn't be so certain that it will be more expensive then .co.uk