Comment on It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription

EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Clinic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  if you want to try an Amazon alternative of books, try ThrifBooks, they have new books as well as used ones

  www.thriftbooks.com

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  • EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Mitzi of the books I buy are reference books, that site actually has a decent stock, thanks!

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• Fisch@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  There’s a great website called geizhals.de which gives you a price comparison for a lot of different online stores for each product and there are almost always multiple stores that sell it cheaper than Amazon.

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  • GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Do you know an English version or alternative?

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    • lud@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Don’t you have a local one where you live? Here, we have two good large (non English) comparison sites that everyone knows about.

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      • GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Not that I know of, that’s why I was asking.

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    • Fisch@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Unfortunately not

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• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The junky shopping experience is especially clear once you leave and come back.

  I mean, the junky shopping experience isn’t unique to Amazon. You could find it in Walmart and TJ Maxx and any number of other low-income retailers a decade ago.

  But that’s largely a result of the pivot to Planned Obsolescence as a universal standard for consumer products. Things are junk because if they don’t degrade in quality you won’t be inclined to buy new ones. Your shoddy kitchen appliances break after a couple of years. Your electronics die just in time for a new release. Your IKEA furniture can’t be disassembled without destroying the particle board its made from, so you need something new every time you change residences. Everything from your AC unit to your car radio to your dishwasher is designed to fail inside ten years, because that’s how business gets you back in line to shop.

  The prices aren’t even that good anymore.

  Greedflation, baby. Everyone’s got to justify their existence with steadily increasing profits.

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• Smoogs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  you must live near a metropolis where you have multiple sources for products are already in your area because in many parts of the world amazon is supplying many things that are not sold at local brick and mortars.

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  • JargonWagon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Jesus, they were just saying that they themselves don’t miss it, not that no one should ever use it, no need for all the snarky sarcasm.

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    • Smoogs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Representation matters. when people start speaking their experiences for application: Other experiences should count too. You don’t silence me just on unapproved alone.

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      • JargonWagon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I agree with you that those with disabilities and those in isolated areas rely on it, but you didn’t reply to the post - you replied to that comment. I’m not being ableist, but pointing out that you replied to a person who was just stating that they themselves can live without it. The person you replied to wasn’t being ableist either.

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• coffee_poops@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The prices aren’t even that good anymore.

  That’s because they have been forcing suppliers/sellers to raise their prices.

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  • meekah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How so?

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    • coffee_poops@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      they got busted doing it

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    • EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Amazons average take is over 50%, so naturally it’s not cheap to sell on.

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