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Price on Amazon vs price on other shops makes it hard to avoid Amazon sometimes (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Anyone else struggling to avoid Amazon because of the price of some things? I need 3M Tegaderm for example and on Amazon it cost 28€ for 10cm by 10m roll and on other sites that are not Amazon I can only find it for pretty much double the price (shop-apotheke.com has it for 58,40€ https://www.shop-apotheke.com/arzneimittel/3816512/3m-tegaderm-roll-10-cm-x-10-m.htm and medizinbedarf.eu has it for 49,60€ https://www.medizinbedarf.eu/3M-Tegaderm-Roll-Transparentverband-unsteril-10-cm-x-10-m). Stuff like this really makes it difficult.

Anyone know where I can find this as cheap as on Amazon or at least not much more expensive?

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[–] a887dcd7a 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Actually I had it the other way around. The item on amazon was like 25€ and on Galaxus 19€+3€ shipping, so basically the same.

In case of other products it was super helpful to have a product/shopping search going (like idealo) to find the lowest bidder.

But in sum I find the product search on amazon more convinient: I start there just to search different shops for the found product 😈.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Idealo belongs to Springer and should be avoided

[–] choutos 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I agree that it is preferable to use existing alternatives like geizhals.eu. But better to use idealo to discover European alternatives than buying from Amazon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What's an alternative to idealo?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

Geizhals.eu

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

You can use them and then delete the parameters and cookies, stuff like ?p=65536&utm_source=PSM&utm_medium=idealo_de&em_src=pricecomp&em_cmp=idealo

[–] a887dcd7a 1 points 3 days ago

Kay. Didn't know that. I used google product search, which should be avoided, too 😂

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Thanks for the tip with idealo I always forget that you can check non tech items with it and found a few shops that sell the tegaderm roll for pretty much the same price.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Ah funny, that was exactly my suggestion in another comment :) too late