Family owned, based in Hamburg 🇩🇪, but somehow shipping ONLY IN GERMANY www.otto.de I am not associated with Otto, just told my self to switch from Amazon to Otto more often.
Dude… I’ve spent way too long creating an account, verifying my mail accepting conditions finding products and trying to understand the German text and then at checkout I get
Lieferungen in das europäische Ausland sind nicht möglich. Bitte wähle eine gültige Lieferanschrift.
(Deliveries to other European countries are not possible. Please select a valid delivery address.)
As a workaround you probably could use a parcel forwarding service:
I have no experience with these providers, but I’ve used similar services in the past and had good experiences for the most part.
But yeah, it really sucks that they aren’t able to ship to other EU countries, while other shops can.
It is what it is… But when someone posts a link to them and said that they ship worldwide, i get frustrated to find out that they dont even ship internationaly
You are Right, I remembered that wrong. My apologies! Sorry you wasted time 🙁
For those of you searching for an alternative in different countries of Europe, you may have a look at this thread: https://sopuli.xyz/post/23555632
Germany: Otto.de
Belgium / Netherlands / Luxemburg: Bol.com
Romania: eMag.ro
France: cDiscount.com, Galaxus.fr
Poland: Allegro.pl
Switzerland: Galaxus.ch
If you know further all-purpose shops, feel free to add them.
AFAIK Galaxus just stocks or orders from other shops but at the end of the day you are just choosing European logistics not necessarily European products.
I guess the same is true for the other alternatives.
Otto would be a great alternative, if they ever started to take customer service seriously.
Then it would cease to be German.
(I live in Germany and have been using Otto)
I was pleasantly surprised. I test-ordered something from Otto the day before yesterday. My last order was maybe four years ago. I wasn’t forced to use PayPal, but got a bill with a QR code, they delivered via DHL and it arrived yesterday. Very satisfying experience, though I know I was lucky, as it was a marketplace order (and got me a 27% discount). Otto itself owns and therefore uses horrible Hermes.
Added to the shop list!
Weren’t they about to go bankrupt last year? Did they recover?
Cool blue and kaufland too
