Winter e-Shopping in Romania

Given my experience with Google automatically censoring my previous article on purchases, then releasing it on each update, I am a bit apprehensive about describing my shopping experiences again, yet if I put work into comparison shopping, I figured it might be useful to others as well.

Varianta în limba română pe FaṭăCarte Meta Zamolxis.

• I acknowledge a major SH trend this past holiday season.
• Introducing.. a spreadsheet!

With the holidays, we all had a lot of stuff to buy. But while in Canada I know where to look and when to pull the trigger, in Romania it's not so clear. It's more difficult for me to figure out the best time to purchase, what is a discount and when a sale is fake or real.

I’m also a bit concerned: is Google censoring my attempts at describing what I buy, was the bit on bike parts the last I was allowed to write about? How does one write for Google censorship when they don’t feel like following their own rules? Regardless, I have to keep trying.

First, we have the seeming resurgence of used stuff, with two websites dedicated to this, “resigilate” and “usedproducts”, both .ro, of course. But I suspect that most Romanians use OLX for “second hand” (abbreviated SH) items. OLX has a few competitors such as Publi24 but it probably still is the market leader and it will stay that way for a while. I have quite a few adventures on these sites and will fill you in one of these days. I’ve also discovered a forum topic of revolving deals, though I’m not sure this will survive as a going concern (fsp-ofpr).

I’m not finished evaluating prices and offers and they’re changing as I look at them, so rather than updating a blog article, I plan on using a Google Sheets document.

I am mostly looking at electronics and “computer stuff”, but there will be the occasional “bricolaj” item.

*(*This article is unfinished – it was scheduled to appear in the hope that it will be finished before, but since this message is here and until it is removed, the article is to be considered work in progress*)*.

Sources / More info:  upr, rsgr, fsp-ofpr

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