I personally haven’t bought anything from Amazon for years now (or really anywhere online, I think maybe 8 things in the past year?), issue is even within the last week I’ve spent hundreds if not thousands on AWS through work… Sure it’s not me paying, but it’s also pretty hard for me to not to given they have such a monopoly
Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system.
Submitted 3 days ago by juergen@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world
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1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Just avoid everything GAFAM. They were already capitalist bitches, now they’re fascist capitalist bitches.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You added another descriptive word. They fucking felt that comrade. They won’t recover this time
Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 1 day 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
mp3tricord@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Can someone just make an iCal that I can subscribe to? Can’t keep all these boycotts straight
olympicyes@lemmy.world 3 days ago
How about an anti-Honey plug in that reminds you not to order when you’re trying to check out.
Teknevra@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Great Idea.
Perhaps call it something like:
BeeOff - A play on “bee” similar to Honey, but with a focus on avoiding (off) certain products.
BoycottBee - Directly stating its purpose as a boycott tool.
Avoidify - Emphasizes the idea of avoiding certain products or brands.
BlanketBan - Suggests a comprehensive avoidance or ban.
NectarNone - Opposite of honey nectar, focusing on avoiding products.
ProtestPal A friendly companion for those who want to make a statement by boycotting certain products.
SentryShop Acts as a guardian or sentry while shopping, warning against certain products.
Ethico Emphasizes ethical consumption by avoiding certain brands or products.
NoGo Simple and direct, signaling products to avoid.
BlockBuy Directly blocks purchases of unwanted products.
SanctionShop Implies a personal sanction or restriction on certain products.
ProtestPulse A tool that keeps the pulse of your protest or boycott efforts.
Avoida A playful name emphasizing avoidance.
JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days 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.
j0ester@lemmy.world 2 days ago
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!
hansolo@lemm.ee 3 days ago
100% on board.
MuscularGoddess@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Let’s keep this up!! We all save money and they lose money!
way_ded@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Late to the party but my subscription is officially cancelled in a couple days.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
I already don’t use Amazon and I think I might actually have them at a net loss as I used to say things didn’t arrive back when they would do anything to make you happy.
Upvoted because everybody should stop using Amazon.
ghostrider2112@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Nice. Yeah, I like to think I have had them at a loss since the early 2000s when they sent me a $600 DVD player/writer instead of the $300 DVD player that I ordered. I tried to do the honest thing and send it back (knew i had no legal obligation) but the process at the time was so annoying that i just kept it.
itsnotits@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It’s* time to disrupt
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 3 days ago
That fuck… I was so confused with the title for a second.
RetroSoul@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The economy has been helping me boycott for years now. Can’t buy if you don’t have disposable income.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 days ago
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.
foenix@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Still more praxis than this comment.
At least it’s something.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 days ago
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.
redlemace@lemmy.world 2 days ago
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.
rayyy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
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.
AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 2 days 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 day 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.
sommerset@thelemmy.club 2 days ago
This is dumb.
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Just permanently switch to buying from AliExpress.
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Don’t just delay and then buy delayed 5 days later.
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Send money to wfp party instead of Dems.
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have u ever forgotten to pay at Walmart?
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buy a gun while u can. It takes some fucking effort in blue states.
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go on Amazon - you can print a custom garden flag.
Print Luigi and post it in your yard. -
start building a troll farm
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mrodri89@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Id rather just forever boycott anything bezos related.
b_tr3e@feddit.org 2 days ago
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.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’m an idiot, I thought this was a March 😂
Crikeste@lemm.ee 2 days ago
‘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
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Ok let’s go to history. Let me know know when the last time this worked. Like even for a minute.
dkc@lemmy.world 2 days ago
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.
telegrammarian@lemm.ee 2 days ago
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.
dkc@lemmy.world 2 days ago
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.
NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
“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.
novacomets@lemmy.myserv.one 2 days 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.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 days ago
TFW when I rarely use Amazon anyway.
endeavor@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
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.
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 2 days ago
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.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day 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.
wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
You know all the twitch streamers hate this.
I’m participating in this on principle, but mostly on bankruptness.
ohshittheyknow@lemmynsfw.com 2 days ago
I already started my boycott last month.
AoxoMoxoA@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Amazombies ain’t gonna do that. bezos has them hooked in their guts
sommerset@thelemmy.club 2 days ago
Amazon monopolized china reselling industry
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days 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.
Offandonandoffagain@lemm.ee 2 days 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.
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
One day boycotts will never have any impact.
Xanza@lemm.ee 2 days 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.
cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Because only five people care
HalfSalesman@lemm.ee 2 days ago
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.