Shopping in online German shops
Life in Slovenia is becoming more expensive. A few years ago, as a rule, if you were buying one piece of something, say a computer or other electronic piece of equipment, it was cheaper in an online German shop than in a Slovene shop, online or classic brick-and-mortar, but due to shipping expenses it usually evened out.For example, I bought 3 hard disks two years ago from a German shop, 57 € a piece and 15 € of shipping. Because of the amount of disks, shipping per disk was reduced to the level where it was more economical to buy from the said online German shop, than it was to buy them anywhere in Slovenia. I saved approximately 20 €.
This week I bought running shoes, Adidas Response Trail 19 GTX, for 80.56 € from javari.de. Leaving aside the great user experience of the shop (which is subjective anyway), free EU-wide shipping, and free returns policy in 365 days, it was just cheaper than buying them in any Slovene shop. In Slovenia this model was selling for 129 €, and I couldn't find any place where they'd be on sale, for a reduced price. Now I can't find them at all anymore. If they were on sale, this was only for a few days, and judging from other similar models that are still on sale, the price was probably reduced to at most 109 €.
Then there's the multifunction device (printer, scanner, copier, and even faxing) Canon Pixma MX925 I bought from a German online shop for 139.91 €, with 9.95 € shipping. In Slovenia I couldn't find it selling for less than 191 €. So I bought it online from this German shop, voelkner.de, that had it the cheapest at the time (but not anymore, for some reason).
All in all, I saved around 90 € by ordering the printer and running shoes from German online shops. I don't understand why this practice isn't more widespread. What are people afraid of? Whatever. I guess it's true, fear has its price.
posted by AlesS @ 7/28/2013 08:54:00 PM
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