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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.
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.
Or how about you just stop buying from that cancerous blight on our society altogether?
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."
We need to turn this into a cancellation party
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Easy - I stopped using Amazon period.
Be nice if these sort of things linked to a committee that actually proposed a strategy.
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".
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.
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.
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.
How exactly will this disrupt the system?
Way ahead. I deleted my Amazon 😉
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!
Would be better to plan this a little farther out but I am already on a permanent boycott so I support this obviously.
