I’ll start - I don’t shop a lot, but if I had to buy stuff like hardware parts, I do use Amazon sometimes, but if I can, then I try to use Flipkart. Realizing how it has turned into a monopoly, I try to look for alternative websites, and check if they’re trustworthy.

If I remember correctly, the last three items I’ve bought online were hardware parts from some local websites. The chi-fi IEMs were bought through headphonezone.in, and they were super-fast in delivery - I had to wait for only four days.

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    2 months ago

    Foreign shopping websites have a hard time settling in Poland as we have a very strong local competition - Allegro.

    eBay tried some years ago and failed miserably. It exists but I never thought of shopping there.

    When Amazon entered Poland with a dedicated regional store, they had to introduce a very attractive offer to bring customers. Hence I pay an equivalent of about $13 per year and for that I get Prime Video, Prime Delivery and Prime Gaming. However I find Amazon store itself pretty lame. The app UI feels inconsistent and unintuitive, like someone took a different app and decided to build something else on top of it. Offers don’t have regular titles but instead there’s a waterfall of search keywords. Both titles and descriptions seem auto-translated from other languages. Prices are often higher or much higher than in other web stores. Basically a lot of them look scammy.

    So to answer the question, I made a few purchases on Amazon but it’s not my go-to place. There’s a lot of online stores and there are websites that compare prices between them so in the end I will buy at a store that gives me the best bargain (good price, fast free delivery to a parcel locker, seller credibility).