The problem of boycotting Amazon for over a year now is that I can’t participate in collective actions like this one.
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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ovovo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Gsus4@mander.xyz 1 year ago
What have you been using to order RAM/disks/whatever?
BombOmOm@lemmy.world 1 year ago
strongandfree@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I know some don’t like them but Canada Computers has been good for me.
GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Really you are ahead of the curve which is great!
iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I deleted my account about a month ago.
melfie@lemmings.world 1 year ago
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.
j0ester@lemmy.world 1 year 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!
wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
You know all the twitch streamers hate this.
I’m participating in this on principle, but mostly on bankruptness.
crabigno@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
A whole week 😲
solarvector@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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.
engene@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I haven’t bought anything from Amazon since Christmas anyway. I’ll probably cancel my subscription after this year. I’m already paid up for the year.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
Still more praxis than this comment.
At least it’s something.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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.
So_zetta_slowpoke@lemmy.world 1 year 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.
b_tr3e@feddit.org 1 year 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.
HalfSalesman@lemm.ee 1 year 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.
Holistic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Honestly its just too easy to entirely cut them out of your life, coming from a heavy user previously. Alexas are gone. Prime canceled. Chase card closed. It was tough for one day, but now I feel great knowing I am not contributing to my own disenfranchisement. Also, saving lots of money after killing my consumption addiction.
I highly recommend it!
jhymesba@lemmy.world 1 year ago
…killing my consumption addiction…
This is the key right here. Do more with less. Keep that phone a year or two longer. Don’t spend money into the pockets of the billionaires lining up for Trump’s new fascist country. A 7 day boycott can show you you CAN go longer than a day without buying from Amazon. And if you can stay away for a week from them, maybe you can do without the unnecessary stuff they’re throwing down your throat.
way_ded@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Late to the party but my subscription is officially cancelled in a couple days.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Be nice if these sort of things linked to a committee that actually proposed a strategy.
PonderousPorpoise@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Easy - I stopped using Amazon period.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m an idiot, I thought this was a March 😂
Crikeste@lemm.ee 1 year 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 year ago
Ok let’s go to history. Let me know know when the last time this worked. Like even for a minute.
SpaceCheeseWizard@lemm.ee 1 year ago
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.
AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
sounds easy considering I haven’t bought anything from Amazon in years
hagishi@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Me too. I’m from europe and it wasn’t a big deal for me to avoid Amazon.
TheFriar@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Right? One week of not buying things from Amazon is fucking nothing. They’ve proven over and over that they’re evil and should be boycotted. Do people seriously buy something every week from Amazon? That’s like addiction shit.
Just stop buying from Amazon. I reached that tipping point like twelve horrific things ago. If you’re still using it, you’re just kind of a bad person with zero self control.
NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
“…Do people seriously buy something every week from Amazon? That’s like addiction shit.”
Yes. I have one family member with an amazon affiliated credit card and when it’s combined with prime… Anyways, multiple family members use that account to make orders from. This includes ordering cases of softdrinks ever 2-3 weeks.
SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You and me both my friend. ✊
RetroSoul@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The economy has been helping me boycott for years now. Can’t buy if you don’t have disposable income.
dkc@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year 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.
NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 1 year 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.
dkc@lemmy.world 1 year 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.
SloganLessons@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s so stupid. Boycott only works if it’s indefinite, because you want the company to try to win you back.
If you say that you are coming back, what exactly are you expecting to happen? They’ll change nothing because you already said that you are coming back
scemmy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Perfection is the enemy of progress.
If you can’t get people to vote for the better candidate, do you really think a perfect boycott can be organized?
Let’s start somewhere and build momentum. If you get more momentum doing something more significant, all the more power to you. If not, learn to appreciate other folks doing something more than just criticizing.
SloganLessons@lemmy.world 1 year ago
A one-week boycott is completely ineffective by design.
Amazon’s executives aren’t sweating over losing a week of your business. They’re a trillion-dollar company that thinks in quarters and years, not days. They’ll gladly wait out this symbolic week of inconvenience.
The moment you put an expiration date on your boycott, you’ve surrendered all leverage. They have zero incentive to change anything because they know you’ll be back ordering Prime deliveries next Monday.
Real - actual - boycotts work by creating genuine economic pressure that forces companies to reconsider their practices. They require commitment, not just temporarily pausing your shopping habits.
Emphasis on >habits<, because we’re not talking about political parties, it’s a shop. A humongous shop for sure, but still a shop, and you can buy what you want from other places.
If you want to actually impact Amazon, you need to be willing to walk away indefinitely until they address your concerns. Otherwise, it’s just performative.
rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
A boycott or strike with an end date is seldom effective.
See for instance Reddit
b_tr3e@feddit.org 1 year ago
Reddit is fucking dead, nowadays. You can’t seriously call that “living”. Ok, braindead at least
Animated_beans@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not necessarily. The employees of airlines have been quite impactful with partial, random strikes in a method called CHOAS. Not everyone will strike at the same time and their strikes only last a few hours- enough to cause problems for the flight they’ve been scheduled on. This hurts the company without harming too many customers and has been effective in the past and has been effective as a strike strategy.
Think of a partial strike as a warning that more could follow if demands aren’t meet.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 1 year ago
A warning? Wtf
yardratianSoma@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Difference here: Amazon being owned by a man worth fucking $200 BILLION, any temporary disruption will hardly register on the grande scale of his wealth.
melfie@lemmings.world 1 year ago
Wait until the 15th to order everything you were going to order this week. That will show them!
radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s not a boycott. That’s waiting until payday to shop.
There needs to be a succinct way to say “Never shop Amazon again if possible. If you absolutely have no other option, don’t do it March 7-14.”
AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I cancelled mine recently and will actively try to avoid using it. They also need competition.
SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s never easy to go cold turkey. It’s much easier to create lasting change after first trying things in smaller doses.
radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You don’t have to go cold turkey. Just shop at places that don’t say “Target” on the front.
desmosthenes@lemmy.world 1 year ago
easier to just cancel prime
sunfur82@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I deleted all my amazon accounts a few weeks ago, and have no plans to go back. When I order things now, I’ll just order through the vendor instead of Amazon, I can live with it taking longer or costing a bit more.