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Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system.
Submitted 1 year ago by juergen@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world
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doodledup@lemmy.world 1 year ago
PresidentCamacho@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Yes do all of your purchases on the 6th and then on the 15th that’ll really show them!!!
Fucking stupid …
const_void@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
Just stop using them entirely. Delete your account. It’s not that hard.
nodiratime@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Someone recently gave me a voucher for them. A few minutes later I mentioned my intention to boycott them indefinitely – awkward.
Anyway, I used it up (since it’s essentially lend money to them) and closed my account after.
Literocola@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Corporations don’t react as much as you’d think to 1 week interruptions in revenue numbers unfortunately as they are beholden to shareholders and shareholders react to quarterly earnings report. To truly send a message it would need to boycott from Q1 to Q2, basically Jan-April or even May.
pineapplepizza@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I’m in.
Amaranth@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Canceled Prime weeks ago and done with Amazon. Unsubscribed to all US websites. We always prefered to buy locally, but would occasionally jump the fence. No more jumping. If it’s not either local, made in Canada, or Product of Canada, we’re doing without.
MayorOfAlmonds@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Amazon is just so convenient, it’s hard to say no. If I need new socks, I can press one button and somebody brings it to my front door in a couple hours at a cheap price. Alternative? Order them somewhere else online and get them in a week or drive 20 minutes, deal with parking + crowds to get them a couple dollars more expensive.
It’s a crap situation but I understand how Amazon got so big.
Drax_@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I said in another comment yesterday that Amazon is the most affordable option in my high COL area and provides the most variety. Especially groceries when I don’t have time to go grocery shopping. Not to mention, I get 5% cash back on my Amazon credit card. With inflation, how it is, I’m not giving it up, and I do not feel bad for it.
frittoBee@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Is it really that bad to order things somewhere else? I live in Germany and never buy on Amazon and most things take one to three days to be delivered to me.
MayorOfAlmonds@lemmy.world 1 year ago
In the US, you can get Walmart and Target delivered to you in 3 days for a lot of stuff, but I’m not sure if ordering from them is much more ethical than Amazon.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Amazon boycott March 7th through forever. There’s no need to give them an end date. Our action is completely toothless when we literally spell out for them exactly when we’ll come crawling back start giving them money again.
13igTyme@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Boycott March 7th-14th. Amazon makes record sales on March 15th. Great job. High fives all around. That will show them. /s
Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Just avoid everything GAFAM. They were already capitalist bitches, now they’re fascist capitalist bitches.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You added another descriptive word. They fucking felt that comrade. They won’t recover this time
Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Found the guy who didn’t vote lol. Keep being a little bitch, meanwhile we’ll fight for you, loser. stacker.com/…/major-boycotts-changed-history
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Doing my boycott for the half a year already and at best are uszally small things like tea bags because that type is nowhere I have seen yet.
MuscularGoddess@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Let’s keep this up!! We all save money and they lose money!
nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
I completely ditched amazon - private and for my company. there are so many other options, slightly less convenient admittedly, but also slightly cheaper. works for me!
rmic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Amazon also got a shit ton of power from AWs
Cgers@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
We can only control what we can control
Naughty_not_bad@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
I have been boycotting them for the last 7 years. I’ll gladly participate with this one for: indefinitely
MuscularGoddess@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Awesome. Do you still buy online from other billion dollar companies or have you been able to go all local? I’m having a hard time getting past the convenience and cheapness they are able to provide. I have cut back a huge amount though since Covid where I never wanted to leave home to purchase things I need for home.
Naughty_not_bad@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
If possible I try to buy from local farmer markets (if my schedule lines up). Clothes I usually buy second hand or they’re merch to support creators I like. But if it comes to gas for my car geting something from a not billion dollar corp. is impossible. Games and game consoles are usually bought via steam or physical from the store. So I’d say it’s a work in progress, as most things are.
And009@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
Forgoing the convinience isn’t easy, even gotta look at the purchase and decide if it’ll be used frequently or just a use and throw
Mandelbrot@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Boycotts are useless.
Cgers@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
The right killed dei solely using boycotts
LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee 1 year ago
No. DEI was always performative. Companies realized that they no longer had to pretend to care so they stopped doing performative “DEI training” because it was no longer beneficial to their bottom line.
It had nothing to do with people shooting cans of Bud Light. It had everything to do with the entire country shifting further with right wing reactionary beliefs.
LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Unorganized boycotts with no demands and no pressure from labor unions are useless. Boycotts in support of labor are absolutely class solidarity.
This one is useless. As most “reddit” boycotts are.
Echofox@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Easily done, I already avoid them.
TaeKwonDoh@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Been doing that since November. Found better, cheaper options locally.
Manitobruh@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Don’t just boycott stop using it all together. I haven’t used it since 2014 and have never had the need.
SirQuack@feddit.nl 1 year ago
I figured out my new Ubiquity firewall can block Amazon and Amazon video with a few clicks. Added bonus that the tv was sending GBs of data that way, without us using the app.
Xanza@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Boycotts like this do nothing because the people most willing to “participate” are people who already don’t purchase from Amazon. Even if you were able to get a critical mass of people to participate for even 3 months. So what? Amazon will post 1 bad quarter and then things go back to business as usual. Nothing happens. They don’t even really lose any money. At least none out of pocket, of which they have plenty for things such as this.
Amazon is a subscription model. You want to hurt them, then hurt their subscriptions. Don’t boycott them, cancel Prime.
4dagoth@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I disagree. Even if just YOU boycott and no one else does. The boycott does something. Even if you don’t believe in it, step aside and push the train forward while it passes you. Don’t create friction.
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I agree with the principal of personal boycotts, though not effective in doing anything to affect the companies that you are boycotting, are necessary. But OP is right. For instance I have been boycotting Chick-fil-A for the last 10 years because I don’t agree with their homophobic attitude. But it has zero effect on their bottom line because no one else boycotts them or even cares. I think the kesson is that you should not expect any kind of real outcome from your personal boycott of a company. You should just be satisfied that you are not personally supporting that company.
joel_feila@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah i stopped using amazon years ago. So I can’t really join. Plus amazon makes so much money from orime sub aand truly absence amounts from aws.
spacequetzal@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I used to buy a ton of Amazon stuff. Mostly art supplies, pet supplies, clothes, novelties I didn’t need.
One day, I was browsing Reddit and I was like-- “what is this boycott thing all about?” and then I started by not ordering for one whole day!
Then one whole week!
Then one whole month!
Anyway, I ended up cancelling my Prime subscription, deleting my Amazon account completely, and cancelling my Prime Store credit card.
Then at work, for Valentine’s Day, we each received a $200 dollar Amazon gift card as an employee appreciation gift.
I spoke up and said that I would prefer to receive cash or nothing at all because my values did not align with Amazon-- which caused many of my coworkers to decline theirs as well.
It was so perplexing to leadership, that they decided that going forward they are just going to give us a $200 cash bonus on our paychecks
So anyways, that’s the impact one of these “pointless” boycott posts had on me.
Xanza@lemm.ee 1 year ago
So anyways, that’s the impact one of these “pointless” boycott posts had on me.
I didn’t say they were pointless. I say they don’t do anything. What does do something is this;
I ended up cancelling my Prime subscription
That’s it. You “buying a ton” on amazon is small peanuts in the grand scheme. Even if you buy a lot amazon is only making a percentage of whatever you spend. Something like 30%. So even if you spend $10k in a year, they make $3,000 net and have to deduct for the cost of getting those items to you. When all the financials are worked out, it’s next to nothing.
The price of their subscription service is their e-penis. They get to say “500 million people pay for Amazon Prime!” @ $139/yr is $69.5 billion. You can buy nothing and they can still survive… But if you stop paying for Prime they lose their e-penis, which affects their stock price, which loses them bargaining rights with their suppliers and ultimately can affect the price of Prime itself.
It’s the surest way to kill them.
rational_lib@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s very hard to avoid buying stuff on Amazon even if we hate them. This provides a bit of extra motivation.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
there are a few things i get on there mostly because i can’t get them anywhere else but i don’t think i’ve used amazon in a while - definitely not for christmas this year.
JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Recommendations: if you have any technical aptitude, get a vice, pliers, wirecutters, nylon cord, and several yards of fastener wire from a local hardware store. That can solve a very large number of minor accessory problems with ingenuity. Old-school prototyping can ween you Off buying smaller “specialized” products.
Offandonandoffagain@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I haven’t heard about any impact last Fridays boycott had. Anyone got any numbers or info at all on it? FTR I did my part.
Xanza@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The problem with boycotts like this, is they do essentially nothing… A single day, week, or even a full month of boycotts can only be successful if a critical mass of people do it at once. And frankly, they’re not going to get that.
The people most likely to boycott Amazon and the like are people whom already don’t purchase things from Amazon, or lightly do it. Amazon if fine with that, because eventually people go back to buying. So what, they’re gonna post one bad quarter? Small price to pay for doing business.
You can’t boycott evil businesses. You have to stop using them entirely. Forever. And most people simply aren’t willing to.
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
One day boycotts will never have any impact.
cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Because only five people care
AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
I am at a weird-feeling place at the moment. I got too comfortable buying things from Amazon, so my brain doesn’t know how to shop now. But I canceled my Prime soon after the inauguration, and I’m thinking I need to delete my account all together to kind of force myself to start working on using alternatives.
sloppychops@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Do it! Many have already deleted their accounts, including me, and the only thing that has really changed is that delivery takes a bit longer.
androidul@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
the stock is already going down, do you think they’ll lose much revenue by this?
Have you checked how much cash they have in their covers for rainy days 😄
novacomets@lemmy.myserv.one 1 year ago
There are things only sold on Amazon because that’s where the global mass market is. Even though Amazon does not have a site for every individual country, which other shopping website deliveries to almost every single country? If you want to replace Amazon, spend $5 billion to develop a competitor.
kamen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Can’t remember the last time I bought something from there.
sloppychops@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I can’t deny the convenience Amazon provide people in terms of their logistics and the range of products available in one place.
In saying that, it’s really not that difficult to forgo, and there are plenty of alternatives. Don’t buy books: get a library card. Buy your electronics from Canada Computers or other similar stores. Healthy Planet and Well.ca are great for cosmetics and self care. Trade prime for a Plex server. There are plenty of options.
I fully deleted my amazon account at the start of this Trump mess and asked them to delete all of my personal data. Life goes on.
kamen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I agree about the “everything in one place”; besides that, in terms of shopping, there’s not much to it. There used to be some services that were pretty neat, e.g. unlimited cloud storage for photos (including RAW files) for something like 50 EUR/year, but of course they axed that.
Plenty of alternatives for everything, just maybe a little less convenient.
In terms of media, I don’t stream; whatever I pay for is either at local shows where I buy CDs from artists directly, or through label stores, or through outlets like Bandcamp (btw it’s Bandcamp Friday right now until the end of the weekend, go support what you like).
PeterisBacon@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I cancelled Amazon years ago and haven’t looked back. Initial FOMO for basic things and for hard to find items. Funny enough, you get better shipping and better deals FROM the actual company than through Amazon.
Fuck Amazon and anything Bezos owns. Stop funding these billionaire fucks.
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I’ve already been “boycotting amazon” for a while because everything on there is complete dogshit or overpriced and I just don’t feel a need to buy anything from them.
Also their website doesn’t fucking work on my phone.
JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Couldn’t boycott it for the moral reasons? Like, are you saying you’d still support the height of shitty companies destroying their industries if they just had good UI?
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I’d eat a baby if it tasted good.
PeterisBacon@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Yep. Half their products feel cheaper in quality than Temu. I cancelled Amazon years ago when I realized they let ANYONE sell on there. Pair that with the corporate monopoly they and others hold, I passed on supporting it.
AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
We need to turn this into a cancellation party
FatTony@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Ooooooh 7 whole days??? That’ll teach 'em. What is this, Whale Wars?
bananabenana@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It sends a message - this is a warning shot. If things don’t change, another extended boycott can be organised. These people think quarterly, 7 days isn’t insignificant on that time horizon.
What are you doing?
FatTony@lemm.ee 1 year ago
What are you doing? Never buying anything at all from Amazon, ever.
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Warning shot? Laughable. Warning shots are for before election. Now is the time for the ACTUAL shots
jhymesba@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The first day is the hardest. You NEED that thing that Amazon has made easy for you to get with just a click from your couch. You drag yourself off the couch grumbling and get on the bus/on the bike/in your car (if you have to) and go out and buy something just as good (if not better), from the local store. You repeat this a few times. By day 7, you realise…you can buy the stuff locally, not supporting a knee-bending billionaire, and the world hasn’t ended. Even if you still buy things you just can’t find from Amazon after the 7 day boycott, you find many things you can buy locally without funding Nazis. Your total sales goes down, and you’re more inclined to shut down Amazon Prime. Eventually, you are only using Amazon as a last resort.
And that’s how you go from a 7 day boycott to changing your life. ;)
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
haven’t bought anything from Amazon in years.
teslasaur@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You guys buy from Amazon?
Cruxifux@feddit.nl 3 months ago
I’ll just continue never using Amazon like I always have.
These kinds of boycotts seem so silly and performative while doing absolutely nothing for the cause you’re trying to promote.
Like sure I get maybe you’re trying to get people interested in boycotts as a starter but if they can’t even not use Amazon for longer than 7 days, I don’t see much hope for that kind of person doing any other kind of meaningful boycott.