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Yes, I'm surprised at the amount of negative feedback. I buy quite a bit of stuff from Amazon and have never had a bad experience so far (my account has been active since the days when Amazon sold only books, circa 1997).

Items delivered work as advertised. Reasonable delivery times (I live in Singapore). I buy from both Amazon SG and US stores.

Are there some sort of filter where US based Amazon customers get targetted with shoddy products and foreign customers less so? Genuinely curious.



It depends on what you want.

Amazon in Germany has two problems in my eyes:

It's not possible to filter out the marketplace. The marketplace is full of dropshippers with highly inconsistent delivery times. There are some things I just want to buy from Amazon directly.

Chinese fire-and-forget brands crowd out real brands. Fine if you e.g. just want cheap gloves, but a terrible experience if you want more than that.




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