Amazon

Looking to get a product on amazon, one that doesnt ship here as it has a lithium ion battery. Would always have got it sent to parcel motel up until brexit.

Considering using address pal, but will I be charged big fees on a £300 item? I know that amazon cover all the fees if you get something shipped here but I presume and item shipped to address pal will mean big customs fees when it lands?

Hey folks. Anyone else noticing that Amazon are increasingly not delivering to Ireland? I keep getting the "cannot deliver to your address" message, often on Amazon's own items. Happened with the Ring camera and various other bits over the last week.

I tried to buy a Roomba i7 from Amazon.de Warehouse. It will ship to Ireland but the 30% discount is not applied. Has anyone found a workaround for this?

It is lithium batteries that are the issue. Normal AA and AAA type batteries are fine.

You can't trust Amazon to have any sensible policy on packaging.

Certainly had a few paper envelopes recently but also had small items in huge boxes.

I don't see why they can't indicate items that are in stock in Dublin?

Also why-tf don't they stock Lithium Batteries? From their own statistics (or are they lies?) they know the Amazon best sellers so why don't they make the effort to stock those items in Dublin?

But they know where their stock is stored so they could easily highlight that for any customers that have an Irish delivery address set as default.

I ordered a household item yesterday for a family member in rural Ireland, said delivery Thursday, grand. Delivered 10am this morning

I did a few week back for same reason. I took about 7 days for money to get back, but during Christmas period so a bit of patience. I did not have to do anything my side.

Thanks, was assuming it would be slower with Christmas alright but thought I’d check in case I was mistaken in just waiting for something to happen.

I bought a some items from Amazon UK and want to return a few but Amazon had split up the single order into 2 orders, so some of the items are in one order, and some in the other.

I want to return them in a single box, so is the approach that you stick both return labels on the outside?

German VAT is 19%

Irish VAT is 23%

When you move to checkout, the German VAT is deducted and the Irish VAT added on.

Amazon UK works the same way - there UK VAT is 20%. I have Prime for Amazon UK so free delivery. There are no additional charges so I only use Amazon.de if the price is significantly cheaper as I have to pay for delivery there.

Item needs to be sold or fulfilled by Amazon.

If you add a 3rd party seller's item to your basket then there is no VAT adjustment - that's another way of knowing.

I only order 3rd party items from Amazon UK as a last resort - usually a physical media item that's unobtainable elsewhere.

Strange, haven't seen that before. If you have prepaid An Post return labels I'd just return them separately with one box for each label.

If you are paying for the postage then just make sure you include both pages with the barcodes/return information in the box.

I think it might be the location of the fulfillment center that holds the stock? I believe some fulfillment centers don't supply items to Ireland, well thats the excuse I've had for items I have managed to order that were in stock and available to UK buyers but went on the long finger as far as dispatch went when ordered for an Irish address.

Depends what you are sending back - if the return is going back to Ireland they will give you a prepaid an post label - if Scotland you pay yourself and get a full refund - I just returned a printer which cost me 30e to send back tracked. Got it all back.