Hi all,

Does anyone know an online shop with a big and wide-spread assortment that isn’t just a marketplace with individual suppliers?

I haven’t bought expensive stuff from amazon for years but still used it occasionally to fill some gaps from my shopping list for small special items that I couldn’t find offline. You can easily get all of that in other online shops or marketplaces like eBay but you’d have to order everything separately: You’ll pay shipping multiple times and produce way more waste for packaging.

Sample shopping list:

  • Sweetening vanilla flavor drops (you typically get those in sport related shops where you also get protein powder)
  • Yellow or green shoe laces with 140cm length
  • Environment-friendly sunscreen stick with UV protection of 50

I know individual online shops where I can all of that but is there a shop where I might get this (or similar weird combinations of stuff) all in one box?

Kind regards, rbn

      • @[email protected]English
        -2•11 hours ago

        They’re isolationist, like the Dutch government. They used to deliver to the whole of Europe and then stopped. Dutch banks have done the same.

        • @[email protected]
          1•10 hours ago

          That’s wrong in many ways. Bol.com is part of ahold Delhaize which has multiple pan-European assets.

          All big Dutch banks are part of the European banking supervision by the European Central Bank.

          It governement isn’t isolationist, we can’t. As a small country where trade is immensely important you can’t afford to be isolationist. Even the right wing Putin enthousiasts have stopped calling for nexit as a result of the dramatic outcome of Brexit.

          • @[email protected]English
            0•6 hours ago

            The Dutch banks have been closing down services abroad and are even closing down the accounts of Dutch people living abroad. They no longer allow Dutch citizens abroad to have a visa debit card. You can also no longer get an account if you’re a foreigner living abroad. You used to be able to. I have no idea what being subject to EU regulations has to do with anything.

            Bol.com used to deliver outside the Benelux. Now does not. Doesn’t matter who owns it, it’s a fact.

            Wilders supports Russia. He literally has a Russian friendship pin and is refusing to condemn Trump’s behaviour towards Zelenskyy. His government also said “no” when parliament said they must increase defence spending.

            You might want to read up on how badly Dutch citizens living abroad are treated purely because they moved to get a job instead of sitting on their arse and whining about being unemployed.