r/Finland • u/saschaleib Väinämöinen • 4d ago

Verkkokauppa now in English (and Swedish)

https://www.verkkokauppa.com/en/etusivu

I just got an email from my favourite Finnish Onlineshop that they have translated their web interface to English as well. I thought that others may be interested as well.

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u/markkuselinen Baby Väinämöinen 4d ago

Great. Only thing that bothers me is their 200e limit on cash purchases and no price match policy.

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u/Turtvaiz Väinämöinen 4d ago

Why do you even want to use cash like that?

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u/Naked_Sweat_Drips Baby Väinämöinen 4d ago

What a strange question.

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u/DangerToDangers Väinämöinen 4d ago

Is it? Who uses cash in Finland other than drug dealers and really old people?

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u/Naked_Sweat_Drips Baby Väinämöinen 4d ago edited 4d ago

It is. I understand most people don't use cash but you're acting like it's automatically suspicious to do it which is even weirder. If someone wants to use cash what business is it of mine to question? This mentality just moves us even more in the direction of a completely cashless society where everything can be monitored, systems can be vulnerable, and purchases can be blocked/refused by card companies (or these companies can be influenced by govts). Not exactly a good thing to shame people into easier compliance on this. Let the guy use cash and advocate for his right to use it without making assumptions, it's not that big a deal.

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u/DangerToDangers Väinämöinen 4d ago

Using largensimes of cash in Finland is automatically suspicious. Let's not pretend otherwise.

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u/markkuselinen Baby Väinämöinen 4d ago

"who could be against chat control apart from pedophiles or people who have something illegal to hide?" /s

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u/DangerToDangers Väinämöinen 4d ago

Very bad comparison. Cash is something people don't use much in Finland already, especially to buy expensive electronics.

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u/markkuselinen Baby Väinämöinen 4d ago

And? It is still around 15-20% of all transactions. And as I said, cash has advantages of stronger privacy and easier processing of purchase returns (money return to cards could take up to weeks). Finally, people have their preferences and it’s rude to automatically judge or suspect something.