Submitted 3 months ago by juergen@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Convincing your employer to reduce AWS costs, or better yet, go with a different cloud provider would likely have more financial impact than boycotting the portion of the company that represents a smaller percentage of their operating profit.
This is too weak and virtue oriented.
That said, I guess its better than nothing. Focusing on promoting alternatives however would probably be a little more effective. Amazon has a lot of weird niche products that I’ve struggled to find else where from trust-able sellers.
I’m boycotting Amazon and other stores from now on. If these billionaires and Russian assets want a war, they’ll feel it where it hurts the most—their wallets!
Late to the party but my subscription is officially cancelled in a couple days.
Yes do all of your purchases on the 6th and then on the 15th that’ll really show them!!!
Fucking stupid …
Amazon also got a shit ton of power from AWs
We can only control what we can control
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.
The economy has been helping me boycott for years now. Can’t buy if you don’t have disposable income.
Id rather just forever boycott anything bezos related.
Yes. Immediately after the fiscal quarter ends, giving them plenty of time to make up for it when everyone who put it off for a week just buys it the next week. Because that’s when it’ll hurt, not right before they have to report numbers.
Still more praxis than this comment.
At least it’s something.
Wait until the last 2 weeks of the fiscal quarter instead of mid-cycle and the rebound bump won’t show up on their quarterly earnings, which will fuck their stock value, which is the only thing that matters to them.
Never started buying from amazon. The stories on Reddit where enough to turn way. I admit having searched the site now and then, but you get the same prices elsewhere, Especially in Europe there is no need for them.
I stopped buying on Amazon Jan 20. I will cancel Amazon Prime today. Many people will also stop buying and many people will cancel Prime. When they stop buying for a week, they tend to find alternatives that they stick with. I was buying several hundred dollars worth of merch but have found better alternatives. I will not go back. Seven days is just a start. Amazon is noticing.
This is dumb.
Just permanently switch to buying from AliExpress.
Don’t just delay and then buy delayed 5 days later.
Send money to wfp party instead of Dems.
have u ever forgotten to pay at Walmart?
buy a gun while u can. It takes some fucking effort in blue states.
go on Amazon - you can print a custom garden flag.
Print Luigi and post it in your yard.
start building a troll farm
Just avoid everything GAFAM. They were already capitalist bitches, now they’re fascist capitalist bitches.
You added another descriptive word. They fucking felt that comrade. They won’t recover this time
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
Let’s keep this up!! We all save money and they lose money!
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.
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.
I’ve been boycotting Amazon since the days when they were an ugly data grabbing bookstore and I’ll happily go on until the end of time.
I’m an idiot, I thought this was a March 😂
‘It’s also kind of ick too” Jesus Christ
Refusing to buy things is one of the few ways we have to protest businesses. Your whole comment reeks of naivety, similar to people to who have never read history and believe in peaceful revolution. lol
Ok let’s go to history. Let me know know when the last time this worked. Like even for a minute.
I’ve been able to successfully degoogle, and recently came to terms that I need to deamazon too. It’s going to take quite a while. I’m a prime subscriber and use AWS.
I’m looking into Barnes and Nobel for future book purchases. I recently did a larger purchase online directly from the vendor instead of purchasing through Amazon. I plan to do more of that.
What’s been frustrating has been the small things. I needed a pill splitter, so I stopped at Walmart on the way home from work, dealt with some crowd and retraced my steps around the pharmacy a few times before I found it, then had to deal with self checkout. This would have been quicker and wasted less of my time to use Amazon. That’s going to be the hardest kind of benefit to give up.
AWS I’ll probably start migrating this summer. I’m planning to switch to Backblaze for cloud storage. I still need to look into an alternative registrar, and ideally very cheap static web hosting. I also need to find providers that have good ansible support since I use that for all my local and remote configuration.
It took years for me to get off Google. I worry it’s going to take even longer to give up Amazon, but yeah it’s time.
Amazon bought Barnes&Noble ages ago; buying from them at all is still benefiting Amazon — but there are lots of great alternatives online for books (physical and ebook formats), as well as visiting your local used book stores. I use Amazon for keyword searches basically just so I can maximize the number of results I get elsewhere. Getting off of major sites like Amazon, Walmart, Target, etc. also puts you back in touch with the actual internet rather than the retail echo chamber we’re accustomed to.
I get way better deals that way as well, and pay vendors directly rather than through a middleman like Amazon.
I appreciate your feedback. Moving more local is definitely a goal. I buy a lot of specialized books which I can’t find at small bookshops so I tend to gravitate to larger companies.
All that being said, I’m going to downvote your comment because I can find no credible sources that supports your claim that Amazon owns Barnes & Nobel. I’d be happy to change my mind if you provide sources, but I dislike misinformation.
“Amazon bought Barnes&Noble ages ago;”
I think you’re thinking of Borders, Barnes & Noble’s long bankrupt competitor. Barnes & Noble got bought by a private buyer from the UK a few years ago when they started circling the drain. I wouldn’t recommend the Nook ereading platform, though. I’ve had three of the products since they first launched, and they are buggy. -Add to that the supporting the ereading platform has never been a high priority especially when the company was struggling, and their free ebook selection went from low-quality, low-selection to nonexistant.
Long story short I’ve been considering a Kobo ereader as my next ereader over another nook product for a while now.
TFW when I rarely use Amazon anyway.
As an euro I also use it rarely but it just has unbeatable price and availability for products sometimes. The only alternative is aliexpress, which isn’t a real alternative since China can go get fucked too.
I used to use amazon mainly if i looked for some item that i didn’t even nnow existed, because their search function used to be pretty good. Or to get ratings on a product or whatever. I rarely ever bought something. Now all that is useless. No matter what you search, they show the sposored shit, and the ratings are stupid, most things are temu dropshippers.
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.
You know all the twitch streamers hate this.
I’m participating in this on principle, but mostly on bankruptness.
I already started my boycott last month.
Amazombies ain’t gonna do that. bezos has them hooked in their guts
Amazon monopolized china reselling industry
Did it work?
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.
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.
Amaranth@lemmy.ca 3 months 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.