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> Absolutely not. Amazon is the only company that reliably shows when they'll deliver, even before you order. Other companies tend to indicate deliveries within 1-2 days or 2-3 days if items are in stock. You never know when the cut off time is and if they ship out on Saturdays. I know that's a very hard problem to solve logistically but as a customer I don't care.

Except in NL ... that's exactly what the other stores do when they say "order before 22:00 and have it delivered the next day!", almost entirely without doing the things that make people dislike Amazon.

> Also the no questions asked return policy is pretty unique. If I get a defective item I don't want to argue with the seller why it doesn't work, I just want to have a working replacement tomorrow. Amazon always delivers on that, others very rarely do.

We have a 30-day "change your mind" policy required by law, I thought that was a EU policy, but I guess it's Dutch ..




14 days is required by the EU rule (Distance Selling regulation), the Dutch can extend that in their own law.




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