I’ve stopped using amazon as my one-stop shop years ago. I think the majority of the population has gotten too used to convenience over ethic’s.
Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system.
Submitted 3 months ago by juergen@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world
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SpaceCheeseWizard@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
Even people that use Amazon surely are most likely to not buy stuff in any typical week? I just stopped using it.
ghostrider2112@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Already canceled my subscription renewal due to Bezos’ prior shenanigans. Unfortunately, still have it until June. But, I don’t plan to use any of it.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Mine ended last month. Don’t miss it.
ghostrider2112@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yeah, I haven’t used it in a few weeks and haven’t missed it either. I had stopped watching any of their streaming once they started that ads bullshit.
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Hey I’m participating for a few years now and I didn’t even know it.
Tahl_eN@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Remember to send them an email and let them know you’re boycotting them. They don’t have to know how long you’ve been doing it.
Manitobruh@lemmy.ca 3 months 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 3 months 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.
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
I moved on from Amazon to local after the 28th.
So_zetta_slowpoke@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Amazon.com could shut down at any point and Bezos wouldn’t lose anything really. Most of the web runs on Amazon web services. You don’t have to buy anything from them. If you’re online, you’re their product.
desmosthenes@lemmy.world 3 months ago
easier to just cancel prime
shutz@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Much of the province of Québec is already boycotting them since January, after they closed all their warehouses here to prevent them from unionizing.
tias@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
With a few exceptions, I haven’t bought from Amazon in more than a decade. I never buy from them unless I absolutely can’t find the thing I need anywhere else.
const_void@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Just stop using them entirely. Delete your account. It’s not that hard.
nodiratime@lemmy.world 3 months 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.
Mandelbrot@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Boycotts are useless.
LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee 3 months 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.
Cgers@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
The right killed dei solely using boycotts
LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee 3 months 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.
Echofox@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Easily done, I already avoid them.
TaeKwonDoh@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Been doing that since November. Found better, cheaper options locally.
PonderousPorpoise@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Easy - I stopped using Amazon period.
fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Practice makes perfect, but this better viewed as steps to cutting them out of our lives and not just nudging them to stop supporting facism, destroying workers and our planet.
The need us. We don’t need them.
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
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
hansolo@lemm.ee 3 months ago
100% on board.
PeterisBacon@lemm.ee 3 months 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.
crabigno@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
A whole week 😲
solarvector@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
I get where you’re coming from, but just like with the single day, people have to start somewhere.
These events can help people break habits and find alternatives without something as big as “never again”.
crabigno@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
You can make a seven days long hunger strike and that is commendable.
But a previously delimited week not buying commodities you don’t need from a particular company with literally thousands of alternatives, sounds just completely ridiculous.
You are not boycotting food production, or sewage, or drinking water… You are suggesting that a seven days strike in buying the Vaseline you will need from the retailer that creates that same need is kind of a revolutionary action.
¡From the people that is dismantling your state!
Your society (and I’m really sorry to tell you this crudely) is deeply sick, if you think this is somehow fierce.
reidand@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Take the plunge and cut them out completely. After I stopped using Amazon I realized it is just like a drug, wasted money on useless things because they want you to consume more and more.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Be nice if these sort of things linked to a committee that actually proposed a strategy.
mp3tricord@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Can someone just make an iCal that I can subscribe to? Can’t keep all these boycotts straight
olympicyes@lemmy.world 3 months 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 months 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.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months 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 months 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 months ago
It’s* time to disrupt
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 3 months ago
That fuck… I was so confused with the title for a second.
nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months 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!
AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 3 months ago
We need to turn this into a cancellation party
iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I deleted my account about a month ago.
melfie@lemmings.world 3 months ago
Wait until the 15th to order everything you were going to order this week. That will show them!
Literocola@lemmy.ca 3 months 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 3 months ago
I’m in.
aceshigh@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I guess it’s a good thing that I’ve always been a minimalist. These things don’t really impact me. I very rarely buy stuff.
OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Preach