@Iveyline There are good reasons to boycott Amazon, but there are also good reasons to simply not use them.
About 15 years ago, I bought some outside furniture from Amazon. I missed when I ordered it that it was from a Marketplace seller. After they arrived, I searched for the seller and found that they sold the same thing through their own store front for 20% less.
After that, any time I was about to buy something on Amazon, I searched for the name of the seller and / or the precise product model, and found it cheaper elsewhere.
It amused me for a while to use Amazon in the same way that Amazon used brick-and-mortar stores: a place you go to browse, but then buy elsewhere. But then their search got really bad and I stopped using them for even that.
Periodically, a web search shows Amazon as a seller for something I want. Very occasionally (maybe once per year?) they're either the only seller or the cheapest, but most of the time they're not the cheapest.
Just getting into the habit of searching elsewhere saves a load of money.
And this is why I get a bit annoyed with the 'I'm poor, I can't afford to boycott Amazon' narrative: I was avoiding Amazon to save money long before I was avoiding them for ethical reasons.
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There are good reasons to boycott Amazon, but there are also good reasons to simply not use them.
About 15 years ago, I bought some outside furniture from Amazon. I missed when I ordered it that it was from a Marketplace seller. After they arrived, I searched for the seller and found that they sold the same thing through their own store front for 20% less.
After that, any time I was about to buy something on Amazon, I searched for the name of the seller and / or the precise product model, and found it cheaper elsewhere.
It amused me for a while to use Amazon in the same way that Amazon used brick-and-mortar stores: a place you go to browse, but then buy elsewhere. But then their search got really bad and I stopped using them for even that.
Periodically, a web search shows Amazon as a seller for something I want. Very occasionally (maybe once per year?) they're either the only seller or the cheapest, but most of the time they're not the cheapest.
Just getting into the habit of searching elsewhere saves a load of money.
And this is why I get a bit annoyed with the 'I'm poor, I can't afford to boycott Amazon' narrative: I was avoiding Amazon to save money long before I was avoiding them for ethical reasons.