Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system.
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That's it! Let perfect be the enemy of good!
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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.
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...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.
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"...Do people seriously buy something every week from Amazon? That’s like addiction shit."
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.
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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?
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"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 the supporting the ereading platform has never been a high priority especially when the company was struggling, and 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.
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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.
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Because only five people care
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One day boycotts will never have any impact.
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Warning shot? Laughable. Warning shots are for before election. Now is the time for the ACTUAL shots
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It's very hard to avoid buying stuff on Amazon even if we hate them. This provides a bit of extra motivation.
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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.
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I'd eat a baby if it tasted good.
