[plzbo]

Amazon's product offering is also seemingly getting worse, lots of five-star rated products which feature obviously paid reviews and are cheap copies. Other retailers feature good-quality brand names.

For technical hardware I can recommend geizhals.de over idealo.

[Normille]

  >Amazon's product offering is also seemingly getting worse, lots of five-star rated products which feature obviously paid reviews...

I find ReviewMeta[0] pretty useful for flagging up this kind of thing and returning a rating which is more fairly weighted.

[0] https://reviewmeta.com/

[alluro2]

I was hoping for a friend to buy a laptop for me in Germany (generally low availability of new products where I live) and was positively blown away with how detailed and useful their (geizhals.de) search based on laptop specs is. Excellent stuff.

[gryzzly]

Nice, thanks for the recommendation!