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Re: Amazon.ca is pants!
Originally Posted by BristolUK
(Post 10519430)
Cost has been mentioned throughout the thread as well as selection.
Yet they do carry many of the same items and often cheaper. It's worth emphasising the point so people don't carry on with the wrong impression and miss the advantage of comparison. Where amazon.ca falls down is on some less well know things - it either doesn't exist, or if it does is a lot more expensive. As I said up thread, this isn't necessarily amazons fault (distribution rights vary from region to region and format to format), but it's very annoying when you see something on amazon.com that isn't on amazon.ca for whatever reason and the words "we do not ship to your default location". I get this with maybe 1 in 5 times I try to buy something. |
Re: Amazon.ca is pants!
Anyway, here is a good example of what people are complaining about. I bought this a couple of weeks ago, have a guess which amazon site I used.
Amazon.ca http://www.amazon.ca/Forwards-Egg/dp...9741500&sr=1-4 Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/Forwards-The-E...e+egg+forwards |
Re: Amazon.ca is pants!
Originally Posted by Alan2005
(Post 10519502)
Anyway, here is a good example of what people are complaining about. I bought this a couple of weeks ago, have a guess which amazon site I used.
Amazon.ca http://www.amazon.ca/Forwards-Egg/dp...9741500&sr=1-4 Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/Forwards-The-E...e+egg+forwards |
Re: Amazon.ca is pants!
Originally Posted by Former Lancastrian
(Post 10519507)
You used the Amazon.UK one obviously. Those 2 are merely placed as a red herring.
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Re: Amazon.ca is pants!
Originally Posted by Alan2005
(Post 10519502)
Anyway, here is a good example of what people are complaining about. I bought this a couple of weeks ago, have a guess which amazon site I used.
Amazon.ca http://www.amazon.ca/Forwards-Egg/dp...9741500&sr=1-4 Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/Forwards-The-E...e+egg+forwards |
Re: Amazon.ca is pants!
Originally Posted by JimandBettina
(Post 10503981)
Compared to amazon.co.uk. You can get most things you need or want on the UK site but here it is like an old catalogue, like Freemans, which I seem to remember had shit stuff in it too!
Oh dear, I am comparing and whingeing again! Cheeaz, Jim |
Re: Amazon.ca is pants!
Originally Posted by Alan2005
(Post 10519488)
... but it's very annoying when you see something on amazon.com that isn't on amazon.ca for whatever reason and the words "we do not ship to your default location". I get this with maybe 1 in 5 times I try to buy something.
Originally Posted by Alan2005
(Post 10519502)
Anyway, here is a good example of what people are complaining about. I bought this a couple of weeks ago, have a guess which amazon site I used.
Amazon.ca http://www.amazon.ca/Forwards-Egg/dp...9741500&sr=1-4 Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/Forwards-The-E...e+egg+forwards But did you notice that on the Canada site, it was available on the Marketplace (New, not used) it was £5.87 inclusive of delivery but £8.25 on the USA version? I can see a reluctance to by used items - depending what it is - but the Marketplace option does include new items. As with other things, quite often the US marketplace site has them for less but the mailing costs via the Canada site are quite a bit less even when the item is coming from the same US supplier!! Sometimes the cheapest price on the US or UK marketplace won't deliver to Canada (it has to say international shipping) whereas anything on market place Canada will deliver to Canada and at a Canada rate regardless of where it gets sent from. |
Re: Amazon.ca is pants!
The site has definitely got better but the selection is still shite though.
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Re: Amazon.ca is pants!
Originally Posted by BristolUK
(Post 10519779)
Inclusive of delivery £13.64 on Canada and £10.49 on USA. £3 less. An easy choice.
Originally Posted by BristolUK
(Post 10519779)
But did you notice that on the Canada site, it was available on the Marketplace (New, not used) it was £5.87 inclusive of delivery but £8.25 on the USA version?
I can see a reluctance to by used items - depending what it is - but the Marketplace option does include new items.
Originally Posted by BristolUK
(Post 10519779)
As with other things, quite often the US marketplace site has them for less but the mailing costs via the Canada site are quite a bit less even when the item is coming from the same US supplier!!
Sometimes the cheapest price on the US or UK marketplace won't deliver to Canada (it has to say international shipping) whereas anything on market place Canada will deliver to Canada and at a Canada rate regardless of where it gets sent from. |
Re: Amazon.ca is pants!
Originally Posted by Jsmth321
(Post 10518511)
Depending on state, its harder now to get tax free stuff from Amazon as they are slowly having to charge sales tax when shipping to certain states now.
California for instance, was tax free until last fall, now all shipments to California from Amazon have sales tax added, and several other states are the same and growing. The days of sales tax free purchases on Amazon are coming to an end. Like I said, the trick I've found is simply to buy from companies that are GST registered in Canada, that does seem to work out cheaper than buying the same item in Canada without all the various hassle. Problem is that not many companies in the US are GST registered, but a few are. Amazon has decided the best business model to follow is to have warehouses in every State so they can offer same day delivery, so they're willing to start charging sales tax because they have to if they're based there. Anyway anyone who claims to "still be British" or whatever and is arguing over saving a few dollars by buying from so and so is I'm afraid really a true Canadian. This is the true Canadian national pastime, anyone who doubts it has never been to a land border POE or a post office. |
Re: Amazon.ca is pants!
Not that I condone such things but you could have gotten it for free at
http://kat.ph/usearch/the%20egg%20forwards/ or http://thepiratebay.se/search/the%20...orwards/0/99/0 |
Re: Amazon.ca is pants!
Originally Posted by Hawk13
(Post 10520026)
Not that I condone such things but you could have gotten it for free at
http://kat.ph/usearch/the%20egg%20forwards/ or http://thepiratebay.se/search/the%20...orwards/0/99/0 Thanks in advance. |
Re: Amazon.ca is pants!
Originally Posted by AdrianR
(Post 10505021)
Welcome to Canada, eh?
What have we here? Home-grown Canadian retailing is behind the times, seemingly, compared to other parts of the world - at least that's the impression I get here in NS. Zellers = BHS or Littlewoods c.1978? The Bay = Debenhams c.1985 Leon's = DFS c.1992 I am not having this!!!! Its more like Zellers = Peacocks c.1988? The Bay = C&A c.1996 Leon's = DFS c.1992[/QUOTE] Oh yeah, and the jewelery shops stock Portobello Road Market quality:( Look on the bright side though, you can ski most places,and drive a car a bit bigger than a Fiesta. |
Re: Amazon.ca is pants!
Originally Posted by Steve_
(Post 10519935)
Anyway anyone who claims to "still be British" or whatever and is arguing over saving a few dollars by buying from so and so is I'm afraid really a true Canadian.
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Re: Amazon.ca is pants!
Originally Posted by cjones
(Post 10520159)
That's brilliant!...I don't know why I didn't think of that today when I was looking on Amazon for a Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0 L USM lens. Do you know of any sites where I could download one of them for free?
Thanks in advance. |
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