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by unbrice 27 days ago
I'm very happy with Galaxus. It's a market leader in Switzerland, also available in France and Germany. What I like: their pages displays return rates, repair times, and price history. I can find what I'm looking for easily, as their listings have more metadata and their business is still in online sales, not advertising. What could be better: more inventory.
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Galaxus is great and I much prefer the UX, but note that Amazon doesn't exist in the Swiss market for some reason. I never found out why. If you buy from Amazon it has to be imported from Germany and you pay import taxes on that. It's possible that if Amazon had a Swiss subsidiary and competed directly in the market they'd win.
You can use amazon france and amazon italy in south of swiss. I dont remember paying import taxes