Platform offline on 12.02.
The Austrian Post ceases its service "buybuy" which was a platform to order products from the US and UK. Buybuy provided local delivery adresses in order to enable consumers to order products that weren't available in Austria. Find out more about buybuy in this article of ECC Austria.
The website buybuy.at will go offline on 12.02.2016. Information (unfortunately only in German) for users of the service are available here.
Post: Einstellung des buybuy Services
https://www.buybuy.at/services/einstellung-buybuy
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