Is this a bug or is it real? Everyone is saying that Otto is the new European amazon but it doesn’t seems like that. (I am already buying from allegro but they don’t have this product in stock)
It is real. Apparently: “Die Lieferung erfolgt ausschließlich innerhalb von Deutschland.” (Delivery is only possible within Germany.)
Weak Otto. 2025 and you can not ship a good from Germany to Italy or Denmark while Amazon and [add china shop] ship worldwide over a decade.
Otto is generally surprisingly backwards. They still can’t even handle multiple vendors in a single invoice. That means, if you buy five items, but two of them are from independent sellers, you’ll not only pay for shipping three times (somewhat understandable), but you’ll also get three different invoices that you have to pay separately. It’s 2025, and 90% of all software devs in Hamburg have worked for Otto at some point, and they still can’t get their shit together.
That’s Germany for you 🥲😂
Don’t use brave.
And: I don’t know if Otto is really that great. It’s just a marketplace where people sell cheap stuff imported from china. I just ordered a mirror that I have to send back, because it’s not even (as in flat).
They are also a German multimillionaire family. They are old German money. The kind that uses their political influence to lobby against property or inheritance taxes.
So it really is an alternative to Amazon in all regards:
- Selling cheap crap from china to overblown prices
- Giving money to people who have too much already
- Using that money to influence the politics in favour of the richest
I just hope they also have shitty customer service and handle their employees like shit so they can replace the big A.