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submitted 8 hours ago* (last edited 3 minutes ago) by vcdeadpeople to c/[email protected]
 

Family owned, based in Hamburg 🇩🇪, shipping ONLY IN GERMANY www.otto.de I am not associated with Otto, just told my self to switch from Amazon to Otto more often.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

You should mention that Otto is a German alternative FOR Germany. Otto does not deliver abroad. Otherwise you'll just end up leaving people disappointed.

[–] vcdeadpeople 1 points 2 minutes ago

You are Right, I remembered that wrong. My apologies!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

For those of you searching for an alternative in different countries of Europe, you may have a look at this thread: https://sopuli.xyz/post/23555632

Germany: Otto.de

Belgium / Netherlands / Luxemburg: Bol.com

Romania: eMag.ro

France: cDiscount.com, Galaxus.fr

Poland: Allegro.pl

Switzerland: Galaxus.ch

If you know further all-purpose shops, feel free to add them.

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[–] cosmicrookie 19 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Dude... I've spent way too long creating an account, verifying my mail accepting conditions finding products and trying to understand the German text and then at checkout I get

Lieferungen in das europäische Ausland sind nicht möglich. Bitte wähle eine gültige Lieferanschrift.

(Deliveries to other European countries are not possible. Please select a valid delivery address.)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago

Beh.. that sucks hard.

When I buy from shops abroad it is the first info I search. It is awful if that info is basically hidden deep under 1000 links.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

As a workaround you probably could use a parcel forwarding service:

https://www.forward2me.com/

https://shipgerman.com/en/

https://www.no-border.eu/

I have no experience with these providers, but I've used similar services in the past and had good experiences for the most part.

But yeah, it really sucks that they aren't able to ship to other EU countries, while other shops can.

[–] vcdeadpeople 1 points 1 minute ago

You are Right, I remembered that wrong. My apologies! Sorry you wasted time 🙁

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

Added to the shop list!