Comment on Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products

• floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The frustrating thing is we can’t boycott AWS since so many of the sites we use run on it. But yes, we absolutely shouldn’t buy things through Amazon or any of the other web stores Amazon owns.

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  • frunch@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    we absolutely shouldn’t buy things through Amazon or any of the other web stores Amazon owns.

    I try to use eBay as an alternative, though i find every 3-4 orders i place there, i get one in an Amazon box that by all rights appears to have been shipped by Amazon. I swear people are drop-shipping stuff from Amazon to their eBay buyers.

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    • swampdownloader@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They are. If it has free returns and thousands of feedback it’s probably a drop shipper. Return it and use the eBay label it ends up costing them money.

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      • frunch@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Go figure the margins are that thin.

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    • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They are doing exactly that for a sometimes hefty markup. I got something like that with a gift receipt, so ultra lazy, looked up the item and it was $11 cheaper. Like that totally defeats the purpose of going elsewhere.

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  • pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I have often wondered whether targeted internet boycott days would shake up AWS, but I don’t know enough about their billing structure to run the numbers to see how much that would dig into AWS profits + how much of their income is flat subscription fees vs. billing on number of calls and haven’t had a chance to dig into it yet.

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    • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You would basically have to convince a few hundred million people to not use the internet for months at a time with out a single percentage of them breaking the boycott to actually even start to hit aws.

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      • pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Frustrating, but I appreciate your answer; thank you.

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    • TronBronson@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The government, use the government. It’s our last chance to use the government to regulate corporations before they become the government

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      • pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I am a big believer in regulation, and some governments right now are in a position where they can be pressured to take anti-monopoly action against Amazon, which I want very much to see. Being in the U.S. as I am right now, though… There are some state governments I would like to see act, but I am also brainstorming other nonviolent disruptive action which could be taken, because the federal government right now is actual fascists.

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  • ramasses@social.ozymandias.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Use vercel instead

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