Sick of Amazon AU Showing US and UK Deals on Today’s Deals

deelaroo on 29/10/2020 - 07:39

Just a rant to complain about Amazon trying to shove their US and UK deals down our throats.

A bunch of useless crap like electronics with overseas plugs.

They are double dipping on shipping costs the items are priced including to cover Amazons shipping costs then they tack it on again if under $49 (seriously go check on US or UK site and compare pricing).

I just wish so badly was a way to filter out this spam to view any actual deals from AU site. I swear previous if you hit the Prime toggle it did but not anymore.

Do sellers pay to have their deals show on the Today’s Deals page? If I was a seller I’d be mighty pissed off that people can’t find my deal now.

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  • AustriaBargain on 29/10/2020 - 07:51
    +2

    I don't mind waiting for international Amazon stuff. Usually it's less than half the price of buying it anywhere locally, for the kind of stuff I buy. Some things are much less than half the price of the "normal" price in Australia. Amazon are just letting the AU customers know more clearly that they too can buy most things on Amazon US this way, but they can pay on Amazon AU with AUD. I buy branded materials from Amazon AU import from US that saves me a lot of money, I don't know where else to buy it at that price.

    • This Guy on 29/10/2020 - 09:00
      +2

      If you don't mind waiting use AliExpress. They are usually at least another 50% cheaper for non mainstream branded items.

      Amazon's non branded electronics seems like a mix of drop shipping from AliExpress for twice the price and bulk purchases from Alibaba shipped locally.

      As for buying local, Kmart seems to have cottoned on and is offering TWS's for $7, PD wall chargers for $10 and an under powered wireless charger for $18.

      • AustriaBargain on 29/10/2020 - 09:03

        I mean photo ink, photo paper, half the products you see on SharkTank are only available from the US, electronics too. The regular US price is cheaper than the cheapest price in Australia anywhere for loads of things, despite the GST being applied automatically. And Gerry Harvey's profits are higher than they have ever been so it looks like he was double wrong about it all, it didn't level the pricing playing field and the ability to import things cheap didn't affect his bottom line in the end anyway.

        • This Guy on 29/10/2020 - 09:04

          https://www.aliexpress.com/

          • AustriaBargain on 29/10/2020 - 09:10

            @This Guy: They have lots of wonderful looking things. Nothing from my recent Amazon purchase list. And I wonder if that cheap photo paper will warp or fade in a few months even with genuine ink, how can you trust it long term. I used to buy from Aliexpress years ago and yeah it's cheap but it takes so long to arrive and it's all a bit crap in the end IF you buy based on the cheapest available. Actually I think recently bought NFC tags in bulk from Aliexpress, but I wouldn't expect the simple little chip in them could be cheapened in any way and they did work fine. Also shipping from Amazon US is faster than free China shipping. Takes weeks to even leave China.

            If quality stuff was that easy to make then the world wouldn't be full of crap. I don't just want the cheapest thing, I want the cheapest version of a quality thing. Like the Arnott's slogan says, I want flavour I can see.

  • PissLUR on 29/10/2020 - 09:36

    Filter: Prime shipped from Australia.

  • JCrown9 on 29/10/2020 - 10:09

    To answer, yes sellers do pay for their listings on the deals page.

    Also the results showing are potentially based on your search history. So Amazon thinks you want to see this stuff.

    So its a combination of both.

    but yes better filters would be more ideal.

  • Nutrino on 29/10/2020 - 12:18

    So angry….

    • SF3 on 29/10/2020 - 22:42
      +1

      Yep, buy a paper bag (from Amazon AU, not UK or US)

      Breath into the paper bag.

      And relax.

  • this is us on 29/10/2020 - 12:18

    🙄

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