The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon
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I can't seem to find evidence of that. All I see is they're Amazon affiliates, which pretty much anybody can be.
Do you have a source?
Looks like I was wrong! Consider it a human hallucination.
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I didn't look into it yet but that would seem a bit... Against its own interests.
Yeah turns out I was wrong about that.. Must've been thinking of some other company! My bad.
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Amazon’s now-legendary “Prime Day” is July 8-11. Much like Black Friday or Cyber Monday, this means sales on lots of items on Amazon’s vast marketplace, and as such many people flock to the giant’s website to get sweet deals on everything from computers to small kitchen appliances and more. While many of us are feeling the financial crunch more than ever, I urge you, dear reader, to resist the allure. I don’t typically have strong opinions about where people chose to shop or how they decide to spend their heard-earned money, but in this post I hope to lay out a convincing case for why Amazon is full-stop evil, no caveats, and is undeserving of your money on a moral and ethical level no matter what your values are. Amazon needs to be stopped, and legislation will not do so. Only its loyal consumers – who keep the beast alive – can do that by taking their money elsewhere. No matter your political or personal beliefs, I'm certain Amazon violates them in one way or another, and you should vote with your dollar by buying from other places whenever possible. Here’s why.
I have never bought anything from Amazon and I don't plan on it. I do understand that sometimes it's the only place to find something that a person might NEED though - and at a price they can afford, so I don't hate on the people on tight budgets that can't find an item anywhere else. (It's like when people buy stuff from Walmart, Target, etc. sometimes it's the only place where you can get necessities.) However, if you can afford to get it somewhere else then do it...or if you can only find it on Amazon maybe reassess if you ACTUALLY need it.
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Looks like I was wrong! Consider it a human hallucination.
Fair enough. Honestly it was probably a safe bet too considering how much they have their hands in.
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Amazon is already dead to us. Just like Tesla, Target, Starbucks, and Meta.
They will never be purchased from, or supported in any way- ever again.
I avoid buying from Amazon as much as possible, but good luck doing anything online and avoiding AWS.
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Which country, if you don’t mind telling?
Alternatively, is that a decision made by your country’s people/government? Or did Amazon just not want to operate there?
Very inspiring, if it is the former.
I think former. It is really because we don't have much dollar reserve. Central bank is very conservative in dollar export. International transaction is Virtually nil for public.
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Prices mysteriously go up about a week before prime day sales, then drop to a few dollars below normal, scream “39% off” and you feel like you beat the system.
Not the stores don't use this trick during sales... This is probably the only thing Amazon has in common with everyoen else...
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How does Temu compare to Crapazon?
It's worse than Amazon. It's just cheap crap that will break in two weeks without any of the quality products that Amazon sometimes has.
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The only reason you need - it's a monopoly. Fuck its all.
And I also hate with passion that 5 years ago you'd need AWS in your CV.
Also, AWS is so much more expensive than going with your own server.
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Amazon’s now-legendary “Prime Day” is July 8-11. Much like Black Friday or Cyber Monday, this means sales on lots of items on Amazon’s vast marketplace, and as such many people flock to the giant’s website to get sweet deals on everything from computers to small kitchen appliances and more. While many of us are feeling the financial crunch more than ever, I urge you, dear reader, to resist the allure. I don’t typically have strong opinions about where people chose to shop or how they decide to spend their heard-earned money, but in this post I hope to lay out a convincing case for why Amazon is full-stop evil, no caveats, and is undeserving of your money on a moral and ethical level no matter what your values are. Amazon needs to be stopped, and legislation will not do so. Only its loyal consumers – who keep the beast alive – can do that by taking their money elsewhere. No matter your political or personal beliefs, I'm certain Amazon violates them in one way or another, and you should vote with your dollar by buying from other places whenever possible. Here’s why.
I only use Amazon/Aliexpress/Temu etc if I don't have a choice. Things that are so god damn specific that the normal retailers I have access to in Europe don't have it. Specific cables or things for modding that are in gray area so retailers here don't want to sell it etc.
But I hate everything surrounding Amazon
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Owned by Amazon, FYI.Turns out I'm full of shit.
Not owned by Amazon, but there's a big but.
Their source of income is from Amazon affiliates link. Whenever you follow the price of a product, if you click on the links on their websites or in their emails, they will earn a commission from Amazon.
Amazon recently started vetting their affiliates more. I'm 100% sure that camelcamelcamel now shows data in a way that doesn't hurt Amazon (e.g. they won't show sudden drops in prices, i.e. pricing mistakes) or even themselves (commissions are a percentage of the price paid by the user).
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The only reason you need - it's a monopoly. Fuck its all.
And I also hate with passion that 5 years ago you'd need AWS in your CV.
People also use it a ton in Europe where they do not have a monopoly.
Heck even in the US they don't have a monopoly come to think about it, Aliexpress is selling the same crap
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Shut up! If you don't use Amazon how will the rich people go to space?
I don't mind them going into space. It's the coming back I have a problem with.
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I only use Amazon/Aliexpress/Temu etc if I don't have a choice. Things that are so god damn specific that the normal retailers I have access to in Europe don't have it. Specific cables or things for modding that are in gray area so retailers here don't want to sell it etc.
But I hate everything surrounding Amazon
AliExpress at least lets you buy close to the source of a lot of goods that you won't find made elsewhere than China. Some stuff I find there exists from European makers, latest example, trim clips for cars: you can buy Restagraf but you need to live near a car body shop supplier that will be willing to sell you a few clips without insane markups.
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I only use Amazon/Aliexpress/Temu etc if I don't have a choice. Things that are so god damn specific that the normal retailers I have access to in Europe don't have it. Specific cables or things for modding that are in gray area so retailers here don't want to sell it etc.
But I hate everything surrounding Amazon
I hope aliexpress is better. I buy a lot of stuff from there like electronics components which aren't really sold locally anymore. Also tools and arduino related things...
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I avoid buying from Amazon as much as possible, but good luck doing anything online and avoiding AWS.
good luck doing anything online and avoiding AWS.
Don't let perfect stand in the way of good.
It's not possible in most cases to even know if a given online resource is using AWS behind the scenes, so it's not something you can really control.
On the other hand, if you happen to be a web developer, that is a different story, but for normal users it's not something you can do much about.
