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[Wiimer]

In my experience nothing helps against Amazon's search algorithm. It's known to be the most refined in the world ...

... just not the way you want it.

Everything can make a difference (this time the audiophile saying is true): Amazon can and will alter the results based on the device you are using (mobile or desktop, iOS or Android, Windows, MacOS or Linux, ...), app or browser (which one?), your geographic location, the Amazon site (or Country selection) you're using, your individual product search and browsing history, the time of the day (literally!), your screen resolution (as part of a fingerprint to identify you if you're not logged in and try to avoid cookies and other means of local storage) and plain everything they know about you.

On top of that come sponsored products, which may or may not be clearly identified based on legislation, and search and sort options you might have really applied yourself.

The German Amazon page displays a link to a help page explaining some (few) of these known mechanisms.

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Produkte im Amazon Store finden - Amazon-Kundenservice

Du findest, entdeckst und kaufst Produkte im Amazon Store auf ganz unterschiedliche Weise. Du kannst beispielsweise eine bestimmte Anfrage in das Suchfeld eingeben oder die Auswahl nach Produktkategorie durchsuchen. Genauso kannst du Produkte entdecken, die nach gemeinsamen Attributen gruppiert...

www.amazon.de

(To show a localised/translated version of this page you must set the Amazon language on amazon.de according to your preferences, see below.)

The WiiM store banner (marked as sponsored). didn't show until I changed the Amazon language setting to English.

This screenshot was taken from Firefox for Android, not logged in, system language set to German, Amazon language set to English (which mostly means automated translation).

I suppose you're pretty bored by now. So here comes a little fun game to get you over the day: In a web browser of your choice, try to scroll to the bottom of the Amazon page of your country, so you can even find and use the language selector while not logged in.

That should keep you busy for a while.

I appreciate for the very very long explanation . That is a convincing rationale.

The strange thing is that this happened just recently. And that every other audio brand search is normal. (I have tried quite a lot of keywords...)

 

[Wiimer]

In my country we don't have Amazon locally but can bye from other countries. When searching for WiiM products on the web outside Amazon I get multiple results from multiple local retailers, most of them to a lower price than I see on e.g. Amazon.de.

Do you all just bye from Amazon or can you also get WiiM products from retailers directly to a better price?

I got my WiiMs with 3 years of warranty 15% below Amazon prices.

Depends on time and place.

The fixed price is the same in all shops, but sometimes it is cheaper in sales, both on Amazon and in retail shops. In retail shops, I pay 5% of the price and get a 5 year warranty. (Some shops are free.)

In the case of online shops, I can sometimes get almost 20% points, resulting in a better price than Amazon.

However, only Amazon offers a 30-day return policy and the return procedure is easy. (Although I have never returned a WiiM..)

 

[harkpabst]

In my country we don't have Amazon locally but can bye from other countries. When searching for WiiM products on the web outside Amazon I get multiple results from multiple local retailers, most of them to a lower price than I see on e.g. Amazon.de.

Do you all just bye from Amazon or can you also get WiiM products from retailers directly to a better price?

I got my WiiMs with 3 years of warranty 15% below Amazon prices.

There even is an official German distributor for WiiM products and a couple of dealers.

I hope my write-up did not sound like advertising Amazon.

 

[rubato]

Do you all just bye from Amazon or can you also get WiiM products from retailers directly to a better price?

I got my WiiMs with 3 years of warranty 15% below Amazon prices.

Other than the A10 WiiM edition, which is only available from Amazon, I bought mine from Crutchfield. Same price, but I like Crutchfield better.

 

[Machiavelli]

amazon does not offer me a cup of coffee and cookies, no nice chat with other lunatics and not the joy of taking something home I have seen and touched before buying . for a frequent customer it is no problem with bringing a piece back if sth does not suit at home or is broken. as well if that happens it gives me another reason to visit them, have another coffee, cookies, chat and eventually buy sth new. joking. a bit.