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I have one outstanding order that is already out for delivery. Once I get that, I'm closing my amazon account. I'm done. Buy nothing. Vote with your wallet. Edit: account is closed. get bent Bozos.

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[–] WatDabney@fedia.io 30 points 2 days ago (6 children)

The masks are coming off.

I'm proud to say that I've never once bought anything from Amazon. Long before Bezos started to reveal the depths of his psychopathy, the company just grossed me out. There's something about businesses that are that large and that dominant that just makes my flesh crawl (the same reason I never shop at Walmart or eat at McDonald's or get coffee at Starbucks or...)

But at this point, it goes way beyond that - Bezos, alongside Musk and Zuckerberg and Ramaswamy and Thiel and so on - is a direct threat to humanity. He and the other would-be oligarchs, under the umbrella of Trump's ego, are deliberately setting out to destroy the ideals of liberty, democracy and justice in order to build an autocracy in which they will be the masters they believe themselves rightfully to be, and the rest of us will be relegated to being serfs, slaves or corpses.

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[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

@letsgo2themall@lemmy.world You can’t use WalMart either. And didn’t Target remove things after literal in-store attacks by chuds?

What’s your game plan? It can’t be the mall…

And if avoiding using Amazon products is your goal, then large swaths of the internet are off the table too.

I’m not trying to be a jerk. Just illustrating how the oligarchs got us over a barrel when it comes to voting with our patronage.

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[–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 25 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Way ahead of ya pal. I haven't used Amazon in over 5 years

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[–] Vinstaal0@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Amazon has always been worse for me in terms of delovery times and service anyway. I only order shit there that I otherwise need to get from Aliexpress or whatever

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Taking the first steps to leave Amazon entirely right now. I am never ordering anything from them again.

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[–] TechAnon@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

Ah gotcha. I appreciate your insight - I'll definitely be looking into this further.

[–] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I usually attempt to buy from other sources, but they are fully ingrained in the online market to the point that other vendors usually drop ship from them, sometimes even if there's no price difference because they get commercial discounts that consumers don't.

[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I haven't bought on Amazon in 6 years. When marketplace vendors from other sites ship Amazon packages to me, I usually report them. I've had two of the marketplaces reply that they had no policy against this, and I let them know that I will choose to shop elsewhere from now on.

It really hasn't been very much trouble to avoid buying from Amazon. There's no shortage of online shops, and Amazon's prices aren't always lower like they used to be.

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[–] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 days ago

What a sack of shit

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 16 points 2 days ago
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