Madeleine Morris (@Remittancegirl@mstdn.social)
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Attached: 1 image Hey Europe - us too! #boycott #Amazon
    • TheFriar@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 months 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.

      • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Listen, I can’t just not use Amazon. Where else am I going to get my SYPHILICHODE nail trimmers and LEAKCROTCH underwear?

        You can’t just find horrible garbage to buy ANYWHERE, you gotta buy it on Amazon.

        I can live without it for a week, but man, these underwear don’t last too long so I gotta keep buying more!

        (/s in case this was not sufficiently clear, but this is the ultimate problem with all these pointless little internet symbolic gestures: nobody will notice, remember, or care about them since they’re only going to be a very minor stoppage in buying things, which everyone ends up buying ANYWAYS after the week is over.)

  • novacomets@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
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    2 months 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.

  • BigBenis@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Or how about you just stop buying from that cancerous blight on our society altogether?

    • JazzlikeDiamond558@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Haven’t bought almost anything from Amazon in decades. No subscriptions or fire sticks either. I think Jeff Bezos got like 13 $ from me. Ever. Period.

      There have always been better or just as good deals elsewhere (i.e. eBay). And I think that people do not realize that more than 50% of offered stuff can be obtained CHEAPER when bought directly from the seller/producer.

      Just write an eMail and… off you go.

      • bob_lemon@feddit.orgEnglish
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        2 months ago

        One thing Amazon is better at (at least here in Germany) is free shipping. But seeing how that is a least partially responsible for creating a cutthroat delivery market, where companies contract out delivery work to barely self-employed drivers for barely any money, paying for shipping doesn’t seem like a bad idea (even though I know the drivers won’t really see any of that money in the end)

        • JazzlikeDiamond558@lemm.eeEnglish
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          2 months ago

          I find this to be rather healthy sacrifice attitude. You pay a few cents more, but the world gets that one micron more normal than it was a second ago. Works for me.

      • SeeFerns@programming.devEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Dude, same. It’s been about ten years since my wife and I stopped buying from amazon. Never have I had a problem finding the things I need on eBay or Craigslist or straight from the seller.

        Just order some new headphones directly from Lenovo that were the exact price as on amazon and even had free two day shipping and don’t require me to have an account. Great, no issues.

        For other things, people for the love of god please buy used and local as much as you can. I live in a smaller town and can find soooooo much shit locally. Not everything but I’d say most everyday things!

      • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.orgEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I really liked ebay like 20 years ago. Now at least here, it’s just for people dropshipping stuff or sell stuff super overpriced. Like more expensive than new. It’s such a weird place.

    • Anivia@feddit.orgEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I avoid them as much as possible purely because their in-house logistics company recently started doing their deliveries here instead of DHL, and they are absolutely terrible. Delivery times range from 7 AM to 9 PM and they just leave the package in front of your door without even ringing the doorbell

      • Bloomcole@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        as much as possible

        Americans are great at mental gymnastics and making excuses to get out of things when it becomes slightly inconvenient or requires effort.
        That’s why you lose and keep losing.

          • Bloomcole@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 months ago

            many are not paying attention
            Deliberately sticking your head in the sand for some profit or convenience is not the same.
            That’s an excuse.

    • sloppychops@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 months 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.

  • PeterisBacon@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 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.

  • Ricky Rigatoni@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months 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.orgEnglish
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      2 months 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 and better deals?

    • PeterisBacon@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 months 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.

  • Fat Tony@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Ooooooh 7 whole days??? That’ll teach 'em. What is this, Whale Wars?

    • TheHiddenCatboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months 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. ;)

    • bananabenana@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months 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?

  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Even people that use Amazon surely are most likely to not buy stuff in any typical week? I just stopped using it.

  • sunfur82@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months 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.

    • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.orgEnglish
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      2 months ago

      My hope would be that some people realize they don’t need it after all and cancel their subscriptions and such.

    • endeavor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      2 months ago

      hey, come on, this is a good start. It should be replaced with a complete boycott, but both americans with impulse control will propably boycott amazon. For the rest, it’s a great start and you can bet it will not be the last.

  • ovovo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 months ago

    The problem of boycotting Amazon for over a year now is that I can’t participate in collective actions like this one.

  • Fair Fairy@thelemmy.clubEnglish
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    2 months ago

    This is dumb. My wife won’t stop using it.

    • Just permanently switch to buying from AliExpress. Or at least check if item is available on temu, AliExpress and Alibaba first.

    • 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 that can direct protest energy.

    • solarvector@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 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.zipEnglish
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        2 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.

          • crabigno@lemmy.zipEnglish
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            2 months ago

            Whatever. I don’t think this suggested action is of any use, but quite the opposite, and in other circumstances I would not say anything about it. But what we are going through, in my opinion, is important enough to call it out. Sorry if it sounded condescending, but for once, I think it has to be said.

              • crabigno@lemmy.zipEnglish
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                2 months ago

                I think in this case is more a “not enough is the friend of comptent”. But you do you 🤷🏻‍♂️