This is really interesting, I always thought Amazon is available almost everywhere and works the same everywhere. I live in Germany I have not encountered any of the problems mentioned in the article. amazon.de has a wide selection of products and many sellers are not even in Germany but in another European country. I personally ordered from UK sellers via the German Amazon website. The only problem here is that you don't get an invoice with German VAT. For personal orders this is not a problem and with an Amazon enterprise account you can easily exclude those sellers. So completely different experience from a nearby European country...