Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system.
Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system.
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Amazon boycott March 7th through forever. There's no need to give them an end date. Our action is completely toothless when we literally spell out for them exactly when we'll come crawling back start giving them money again.
Boycott March 7th-14th. Amazon makes record sales on March 15th. Great job. High fives all around. That will show them. /s
Just stop using them entirely. Delete your account. It’s not that hard.
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.
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.
I'm in.
Canceled Prime weeks ago and done with Amazon. Unsubscribed to all US websites. We always prefered to buy locally, but would occasionally jump the fence. No more jumping. If it's not either local, made in Canada, or Product of Canada, we're doing without.
Yes do all of your purchases on the 6th and then on the 15th that'll really show them!!!
Fucking stupid ...
I have been boycotting them for the last 7 years. I'll gladly participate with this one for: indefinitely
Awesome. Do you still buy online from other billion dollar companies or have you been able to go all local? I’m having a hard time getting past the convenience and cheapness they are able to provide. I have cut back a huge amount though since Covid where I never wanted to leave home to purchase things I need for home.
Forgoing the convinience isn't easy, even gotta look at the purchase and decide if it'll be used frequently or just a use and throw
Amazon is just so convenient, it's hard to say no. If I need new socks, I can press one button and somebody brings it to my front door in a couple hours at a cheap price. Alternative? Order them somewhere else online and get them in a week or drive 20 minutes, deal with parking + crowds to get them a couple dollars more expensive.
It's a crap situation but I understand how Amazon got so big.
I said in another comment yesterday that Amazon is the most affordable option in my high COL area and provides the most variety. Especially groceries when I don't have time to go grocery shopping. Not to mention, I get 5% cash back on my Amazon credit card. With inflation how it is, I'm not giving it up, and I do not feel bad for it.
Is it really that bad to order things somewhere else? I live in Germany and never buy on Amazon and most things take one to three days to be delivered to me.
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!
Amazon also got a shit ton of power from AWS
We can only control what we can control
Easily done, I already avoid them.
Been doing that since November. Found better, cheaper options locally.
Boycotts like this do nothing because the people most willing to "participate" are people who already don't purchase from Amazon. Even if you were able to get a critical mass of people to participate for even 3 months. So what? Amazon will post 1 bad quarter and then things go back to business as usual. Nothing happens. They don't even really lose any money. At least none out of pocket, of which they have plenty for things such as this.
Amazon is a subscription model. You want to hurt them, then hurt their subscriptions. Don't boycott them, cancel Prime.
I used to buy a ton of Amazon stuff. Mostly art supplies, pet supplies, clothes, novelties I didn't need.
One day, I was browsing Reddit and I was like-- "what is this boycott thing all about?" and then I started by not ordering for one whole day!
Then one whole week!
Then one whole month!
Anyway, I ended up cancelling my Prime subscription, deleting my Amazon account completely, and cancelling my Prime Store credit card.
Then at work, for Valentine's Day, we each received a $200 dollar Amazon gift card as an employee appreciation gift.
I spoke up and said that I would prefer to receive cash or nothing at all because my values did not align with Amazon-- which caused many of my coworkers to decline theirs as well.
It was so perplexing to leadership, that they decided that going forward they are just going to give us a $200 cash bonus on our paychecks
So anyways, that's the impact one of these "pointless" boycott posts had on me.
So anyways, that’s the impact one of these “pointless” boycott posts had on me.
I didn't say they were pointless. I say they don't do anything. What does do something is this;
I ended up cancelling my Prime subscription
That's it. You "buying a ton" on amazon is small peanuts in the grand scheme. Even if you buy a lot amazon is only making a percentage of whatever you spend. Something like 30%. So even if you spend $10k in a year, they make $3,000 net and have to deduct for the cost of getting those items to you. When all the financials are worked out, it's next to nothing.
The price of their subscription service is their e-penis. They get to say "500 million people pay for Amazon Prime!" @ $139/yr is $69.5 billion. You can buy nothing and they can still survive... But if you stop paying for Prime they lose their e-penis, which affects their stock price, which loses them bargaining rights with their suppliers and ultimately can affect the price of Prime itself.
It's the surest way to kill them.
I disagree. Even if just YOU boycott and no one else does. The boycott does something. Even if you don't believe in it, step aside and push the train forward while it passes you. Don't create friction.
I agree with the principal of personal boycotts, though not effective in doing anything to affect the companies that you are boycotting, are necessary. But OP is right. For instance I have been boycotting Chick-fil-A for the last 10 years because I don't agree with their homophobic attitude. But it has zero effect on their bottom line because no one else boycotts them or even cares. I think the kesson is that you should not expect any kind of real outcome from your personal boycott of a company. You should just be satisfied that you are not personally supporting that company.
Yeah i stopped using amazon years ago. So I can't really join. Plus amazon makes so much money from orime sub aand truly absence amounts from aws.
It's very hard to avoid buying stuff on Amazon even if we hate them. This provides a bit of extra motivation.
Just avoid everything GAFAM. They were already capitalist bitches, now they're fascist capitalist bitches.
You added another descriptive word. They fucking felt that comrade. They won't recover this time
Found the guy who didn't vote lol. Keep being a little bitch, meanwhile we'll keep fighting for you, loser. https://stacker.com/stories/business-economy/major-boycotts-changed-history
Don't just boycott stop using it all together. I haven't used it since 2014 and have never had the need.
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.
Let’s keep this up!! We all save money and they lose money!
You guys buy from Amazon?
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.
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.
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?
I'd eat a baby if it tasted good.
The problem of boycotting Amazon for over a year now is that I can't participate in collective actions like this one.
What have you been using to order RAM/disks/whatever?
B&H is a solid source for computer parts.
I know some don't like them but Canada Computers has been good for me.
Really you are ahead of the curve which is great!
Can't remember the last time I bought something from there to begin with.
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.
I agree about the "everything in one place"; besides that, in terms of shopping, there's not much to it. In terms of services there used to be some pretty neat stuff, e.g. unlimited cloud storage for photos (including RAW files) for something like 50 EUR/year, but of course they axed that.
Plenty of alternatives for everything, just maybe a little less convenient.
In terms of media, I don't stream from paid services; whatever I pay for is either at local shows where I buy CDs from artists directly, or through label stores, or through outlets like Bandcamp (btw it's Bandcamp Friday right now until the end of the weekend, go support what you like).
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!
...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.
Ooooooh 7 whole days???? That'll teach 'em. What is this, Whale Wars?
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?
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. ;)
haven't bought anything from Amazon in years.
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.
Do you guys really rely on Amazon so much that one week without feels like a protest? Seriously?
I've genuinely never used amazon to shop, not even once, but only because it's always been the more expensive option compared to smaller shops. Right now seeing 5070ti tuf goes for 1400 on amazon, 1300 at my local store.
It's so bad and cyclical while just being unavoidable in some areas. On the map, you'll notice how heavily populated northern europe is compared to a lot of sparse areas which have less options. I'm in a relatively normal size town and there is one big box choice and maybe one defunct "local" store that's barely getting by.
I had to beg a guy in a corner shopping center "repair shop" for a small syringe of thermal paste when I ran out (I'm not fucking kidding, there's just no electronics store anywhere nearby, losing Radioshack was fucking hard). Dude at the shop was the only reason I didn't have to go online and wait a week (he wasn't selling it, just had spare for his own use). My trades and hobbies make this a common occurrence throughout the week. Most places now are forced to sell on Amazon to remain competitive (Amazon dominates with shipping cost reduction alone for large items), finding a local or even nationally based company through search algorithms becomes harder and harder as they can't pay to keep up with SEO bullshit. You can try to keep it all legit but with competitive monopolies everywhere you just eventually find out your favorite company no longer really exists.
There are some suppliers I could shop with but each one is an hour drive in different directions and 80% of the time they're ordering the same shit through the same companies I would be using if I went online. It works sometimes, but takes so much effort it becomes it's own full-time job that no one has the ability to keep up with.
Guys I'm going to take a picture of myself holding up a sign saying that Amazon are racist oligarchs and I'm going to post it online
I will admit it's been super convenient if I need shampoo or toner or drinks or dozens of other things to just take 60 seconds to order it from Amazon and it's here in a couple days. Well it used to be. Now things often take many days to ship. I canceled Prime about 6 months ago.
Here's the thing. If I could shop somewhere else I would. Do you know what sets Amazon apart from other places? It's their delivery, pure and simple. I ordered 3 TV's from Best Buy. It took them a week to ship them. I had to pay for shipping on top of the $600 I spent. On the day I was supposed to receive them I was home all day. I got a notification they were an hour out. So I went outside and waited for them to arrive. They never arrived, but i got an email telling me they had stopped by but I wasn't home.
So I had to go down to their depot to pick them up. I am stuck using public transit so Imagine trying to get 3 40 inch TV's home on a bus. I ended up having to get a cab half way home with money I couldn't afford to spend just to get it all home.
So for me, That is the main reason I buy from Amazon. Although lately I've been shopping with Uber from Walmart.
And Fuck Purolator.
I haven't bought a single TV in my whole life and I haven't missed anything important. Whenever I am somewhere where there's a TV and I've got nothing better to do or I'm just curious I zap through the channels whithout finding anything remotely interesting or entertaining 99% of the time. I really wonder what people want with these ad-infested, annoying trashcans. Aren't you dumb enough, yet? Try heavy drinking. Preferrably methanol or break fluid...
Americans really dont know how to protest...
My hope would be that some people realize they don't need it after all and cancel their subscriptions and such.
Amazon breaking new records after the "protest"
"Vote with your wallets" is a common expression among Americans after all.
I wonder if Amazon is pushing these "protests" to drown out the real ones.
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.
Suddenly the horrible under any administration piss in a bottle' company is bad?
A boycott or strike with an end date is seldom effective.
See for instance Reddit
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 as a strike strategy.
Think of a partial strike as a warning that more could follow if demands aren't meet.
Reddit is fucking dead, nowadays. You can't seriously call that "living". Ok, braindead at least
sounds easy considering I haven't bought anything from Amazon in years
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.
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.)
"...Do people seriously buy something every week from Amazon?"
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.
You and me both my friend. ✊
Me too. I'm from europe and it wasn't a big deal for me to avoid Amazon.
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.
Doing my boycott for the half a year already and at best are uszally small things like tea bags because that type is nowhere I have seen yet.
We need to turn this into a cancellation party
Or how about you just stop buying from that cancerous blight on our society altogether?
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.
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!
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)
I mostly shop on eBay now. Way better anyway.
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.
LOL Totally not a scumbag Omidyar company
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
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."
I cancelled mine recently and will actively try to avoid using it. They also need competition.
A whole 7 days??? Gosh gee willakers!!! You think people can uphold a boycott a whole 7 days???
Look. Boycotts are effective, but you gotta be stubborn. It's gotta be "boycott from now on" with no end date.
Otherwise, it'll just look like normal fluctuations in their business.
"Oh, this week was slightly down....ah, but then it stopped. We're good!"
But if you boycott forever, then their numbers continuously go down. And if you get other people boycotting, those numbers go down faster.
THAT'S how you make an impact.
How do you get people who can't see themselves boycotting indefinitely? You get them used to it by getting them on board to boycott for a fixed length of time. Ideally, as they warm up to the idea, you get them to boycott for longer.
In 1995 we boycotted Shell for environmental reasons and it worked: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent_Spar
Towing of the platform to its final position began on 11 June. By this time, the call for a boycott of Shell products was being heeded across much of continental northern Europe, damaging Shell's profitability as well as brand image. [...]
On 20 June, Shell had decided that their position was no longer tenable, and withdrew their plan to sink the Brent Spar [...]
So it needed more than a week of concerted boycott action to bring big business into trouble, but not unlimited boycott.
That boycott had a demand attached, to prevent the sinking of the Brent Spar buoy. Effectively "unlimited" boycott until Shell gave into the demand.
This and the last no shop Friday thing seem mostly pointless. I mean fuck Amazon for sure but shouldn't there be some goal? "Boycott Amazon until X, Y, and Z" not "No buy from Amazon for a week but then we'll be back so no worries!"
Boycott action, and a smidge of arson.
Okay, so start boycotting Amazon now and don't stop.
This is how strikes are organized generally. You do limited time events too minimize the hurt on both sides, and bring them both to the table.
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
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.
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.
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.
I deleted my account about a month 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.
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.
Recommendations: if you have any technical aptitude, get a vice, pliers, wirecutters, nylon cord, and several yards of fastener wire from a local hardware store. That can solve a very large number of minor accessory problems with ingenuity. Old-school prototyping can ween you Off buying smaller "specialized" products.
Easy - I stopped using Amazon period.
A whole week 😲
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".
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.
Boycotts are useless.
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.
The right killed dei solely using boycotts
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.
Be nice if these sort of things linked to a committee that actually proposed a strategy.
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.
Is this a joke? Like 2k people on fedi don't buy anything from Amazon for a week?
These "economic blackout"s are completely futile. Especially if they only target a single service, or if they target a service as big as Amazon. If this blackout is for everything Amazon operates, you can't use Twitch, or Fire TV, or Prime Video, or Fire devices, or Kindles, or any website that is run with AWS. You think normies are going to sacrifice all of that ease of use for a week, and even if in some alternate dimension they have any self control over their consumption, they'll just go back to using Amazon after this protest is over.
Amazon will survive for 7 days. What about people all around the world that quite frankly don't give a fuck about uspol? What about subscriptions? Invincible 3x8 comes out in this time period, so nobody will watch it? People will stop using a third of the Internet, their streaming slop devices, their e-celeb propaganda outlets? It simply won't happen.
These blackouts are an immature way to "break the system, man". They completely ignore the reasons why normies go to the slop mill in the first place. The general population has 0 self control over their spending. They will consume, and consume, and consume, until they die.
What got me is the upcoming one week Nestle and one week General Mills boycotts... Do the people who came up with these boycotts not realize that the stores that carry those products, already paid for those products? And the rebuttal to any skepticism is that it'll at least get people used to not buying these products or shopping at these places. Do people really need to take baby steps? Is that how much we, as a society, are addicted to buying things? Pat yourself on the back America! Fascism may be quickly on the rise, but good work, you didn't buy Cheerios for a whole week!
If these measures are not enough; please suggest some more for us to take.
Don’t let “perfect” be the enemy of “good”.
To be frank,
Constructive criticism has not been well received by anyone lately as apparently everyone just sees it as flat criticism and with the rise of internet echo chambers for every group, criticism in any form immediately points you as an other to be ignored.
People of all walks only want to hear what is convenient and self confirming.And also, people are not ubermensch and do not just have a working plan that perfectly replaces this one the same way this one is ineffective. It will take conversation and community to figure out what works. No one can plan or act alone.
Wellp, at least we can torrent the new Invincible season
Shit's great
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!
LOL, I'm boycotting Amazon since 2007, at least. Good luck!
Me too, 2010ish though. I wish I could figure out how to boycott AWS. As an aged developer with a little bit of influence, I've steered plenty of clients, employers, and peers away, but I still use the internet. There's no detaching from that.
This is off topic, but as a new developer (about to graduate) I'm having a tough time envisioning places to work. Ideally once I get enough experience I can be more choosy (non profit work is my goal) in the meantime I need experience.
Based on what you can infer about me from being on Lemmy in this thread, do you have any advice for a new developer in regards to fun or ethical work?
How exactly will this disrupt the system?
This is great and all, but here's a bonus challenge: don't use Amazon ever fucking again!
Do it and you're cool!! Even though I haven't used it in awhile, I have the app downloaded. I'm going to uninstall it as soon as I post this comment.
Or use it as a product search engine, then go to the supplier or an alternate online store to buy the one you want. I don't have it on my phone but do go to it in browser occasionally for that.
Yeah that's basically all I used it for over the last year anyway. Any product on Amazon that isn't junk probably has it's own site in my experience
This is what I often do. Handy since search engines are worthless anymore.
Amazon has the masses enthralled
But if I pay $20 a month I don't have to spend $15 on shipping!
Also tell them why you're boycotting them. That's an important step.
Did you uninstall it?
Yup
Way ahead. I deleted my Amazon 😉
I am at a weird-feeling place at the moment. I got too comfortable buying things from Amazon, so my brain doesn't know how to shop now. But I canceled my Prime soon after the inauguration, and I'm thinking I need to delete my account all together to kind of force myself to start working on using alternatives.
Do it! Many have already deleted their accounts, including me, and the only thing that has really changed is that delivery takes a bit longer.
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.
easier to just cancel prime
Late to the party but my subscription is officially cancelled in a couple days.
Would be better to plan this a little farther out but I am already on a permanent boycott so I support this obviously.
Wait until the 15th to order everything you were going to order this week. That will show them!
I week long boycott will do nothing. If that is the most you are prepared to inconvenience yourself to send a message, then just give up now.
Hard disagree. If you ask people to make a temporary change that still feels achievable, they're more likely to at least give it a shot, and many of those people will spend some time considering alternatives. Once the week is up, some people may even choose to continue boycotting Amazon, or at least reduce their spending there.
Agreed. Better to make it a month or two. This gives you time to find replacement companies and then hopefully never return to Amazon.
Or just stop using them entirely, right now, because the only service they have an uncontested lead in is, ironically, audiobooks.
I know, I know. You might have to physically go to a store. The HORROR.
If these measures are not enough; please suggest some more for us to take.
Don’t let “perfect” be the enemy of “good”.
Those fuckers stole my digital comics library. I already stopped using Twitch and I havent bought their shitty and useless Chinese made electronics in years. Fuck Nazis, fuck Amazon, fuck Google, Fuck Trump, Fuck Musk, Fuck America! (the last part I take away when you vote the Orange Fuck Face away!)
We have a lot more to atone for than the orange Nazi but thanks for the vote of faith
Even people that use Amazon surely are most likely to not buy stuff in any typical week? I just stopped using it.
Just delete your account already.
Can't - they practically monopolized china reshipment and white labeling In US.
Best u can do - check qlibaba, temu, AliExpress first and order from there
Lol no, cuz then my option is Walmart and I ain't doing that.
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.
The economy has been helping me boycott for years now. Can't buy if you don't have disposable income.
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.
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.
I boycott Amazon years ago already, when a warehouse of people died because employees were told that the government's tornado warning was just hyperbole.
Amazon is an evil company that treats its workers like garbage, and practices some of the most vile anti-union practices.
I cancelled my Amazon Prime account and never bought a single item through Amazon anymore. I don't buy anything from Temu either, by the way.
Haven’t used Amazon for 1.5 years already
Wouldn't it be easier to disrupt the system by—I don't know—something old & boring like asking everyone to clean out/close their bank accounts at the same time to cause a run on banks?
Where do people come up with these weaker ideas? Trump's inanity might disrupt the economy more than these efforts.
I want mega corps to fail, not spark a great depression.
there are a few things i get on there mostly because i can't get them anywhere else but i don't think i've used amazon in a while - definitely not for christmas this year.
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.
Preach
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.
I applaud it, really. Maybe it won't disrupt the system but it's a first darn step changing habits. This is the opposite of inactivity, of laissez-faire, of "eh we can't change anything anyway."
I wish all of you good luck and I hope for those who do change their habits by joining an Amazon boycot the drive to keep going.
I've only briefly looked at the comments and my, what party poopers. Small sacrifices are still sacrifices.
I haven't heard about any impact last Fridays boycott had. Anyone got any numbers or info at all on it? FTR I did my part.
One day boycotts will never have any impact. A lot of their money comes from prime. Prime cancelling is what they care about.
The problem with boycotts like this, is they do essentially nothing... A single day, week, or even a full month of boycotts can only be successful if a critical mass of people do it at once. And frankly, they're not going to get that.
The people most likely to boycott Amazon and the like are people whom already don't purchase things from Amazon, or lightly do it. Amazon if fine with that, because eventually people go back to buying. So what, they're gonna post one bad quarter? Small price to pay for doing business.
You can't boycott evil businesses. You have to stop using them entirely. Forever. And most people simply aren't willing to.
Because only five people care
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.
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.
"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 supporting the ereading platform has never been a high priority especially when the company was struggling, also 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.
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.
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.
You know all the twitch streamers hate this.
I'm participating in this on principle, but mostly on bankruptness.
Much of the province of Québec is already boycotting them since January, after they closed all their warehouses here to prevent them from unionizing.
Can someone just make an iCal that I can subscribe to? Can’t keep all these boycotts straight
How about an anti-Honey plug in that reminds you not to order when you’re trying to check out.
Great Idea.
Perhaps call it something like:
BeeOff/BuzzOff: A play on "bee/buzz" 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.
EDIT: I wonder, alongside a potential plug-in, what if someone created a federated platform or website that tracked the protests, boycotts, etc.?
It would allow Fediverse users to be able to follow the protests/boycotts.
Already canceled my Prime subscription renewal due to Bezos’ prior shenanigans. Unfortunately, still have it until June. But, I don’t plan to use any of it.
the stock is already going down, do you think they’ll lose much revenue by this?
Have you checked how much cash they have in their coffers for rainy days 😄
I moved on from Amazon to local after the 28th.
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.
Still more praxis than this comment.
At least it's something.
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.
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.
Hey I'm participating for a few years now and I didn't even know it.
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.
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
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.
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.
100% on board.
To give up the addiction to 1-click buy for a week? And you call this a protest?
It's* time to disrupt
That fuck.... I was so confused with the title for a second.
TFW when I rarely use Amazon anyway.
As an euro I also use it rarely but it just has unbeatable price and availability for products sometimes. The only alternative is aliexpress, which isn't a real alternative since China can go get fucked too.
I used to use amazon mainly if i looked for some item that i didn't even nnow existed, because their search function used to be pretty good. Or to get ratings on a product or whatever. I rarely ever bought something. Now all that is useless. No matter what you search, they show the sposored shit, and the ratings are stupid, most things are temu dropshippers.
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.
Id rather just forever boycott anything bezos related.
I already started my boycott last month.
Lol, this is the first one that I'm mildly inconvenienced by participating in. Wheel of Time S3 comes out somewhere in there doesn't it?
I can wait.
Just pirate it.
Arrr matey. Its the breakdown of society 'if the people running society aren't following the rules, why should I?' especially a giant corporation, and especially a giant corporation that sides with Trump. So yes, pirate it. Fuck 'em.
The thing is, I really don't want them to cancel it. I've been signing up for it and then cancelling my subscription when it's finished, and then pirating it anyway. I just want them to see it as valuable, so they don't try to squeeze 14 books worth of content into one shitty finale because it's not making them money.
Fuck that show. Fuck the Halo show. Fuck each and every company that just buys a name and thus a built-in fan base and mutilates the original IP beyond recognition.
I cancelled my prime membership. I'm going to look around for alternatives before I delete my account which I more than likely will be doing at this point.
I'm an idiot, I thought this was a March 😂
But this is still super not effective. How do people think this affects anything. It also is kind of ick too. If you have the energy and time you organize this, why not just shit post for a week instead. You'll get more mileage. The most effective thing is spreading a message. I have no idea what refusing to buy things for a day will do. You need to spread a message so this action can be sustain. It needs to be a new Zeitgeist. This "do this for a day" stuff acts more like a pressure relief. Like we all watch the day come and go and nothing changes then we go back to our lives. Instead, make content and posted outside our echo chambers at a level that moderation can't sustain. This is what the Republicans did. Get your message to the faces of people who fence sit
‘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
Ok let's go to history. Let me know know when the last time this worked. Like even for a minute.
This is dumb. My wife won't stop using it.
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Just permanently switch to buying from AliExpress. Or at least check if item is available on temu, AliExpress and Alibaba first.
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Don't just delay and then buy delayed 5 days later.
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Send money to wfp party instead of Dems.
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have u ever forgotten to pay at Walmart?
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buy a gun while u can. It takes some fucking effort in blue states.
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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.
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Amazombies ain't gonna do that. bezos has them hooked in their guts
Amazon monopolized china reselling industry
