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[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Okay, so start boycotting Amazon now and don't stop.

[-] marv99@feddit.org 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] villainy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

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!"

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[-] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

Americans really dont know how to protest...

[-] hackitfast@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I wonder if Amazon is pushing these "protests" to drown out the real ones.

[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] SloganLessons@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

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

[-] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Kraiden@kbin.earth 1 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 0 points 1 week ago
[-] Kraiden@kbin.earth 1 points 1 week ago

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.

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A boycott or strike with an end date is seldom effective.

See for instance Reddit

[-] Tattorack@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Red_October@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Do you guys really rely on Amazon so much that one week without feels like a protest? Seriously?

[-] Alpha71@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week 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.

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[-] REDACTED@infosec.pub 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] Cataphract@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

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.

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[-] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago

Would be better to plan this a little farther out but I am already on a permanent boycott so I support this obviously.

[-] radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

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."

[-] const_void@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Just stop using them entirely. Delete your account. It’s not that hard.

[-] Amaranth@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Naughty_not_bad@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 week ago

I have been boycotting them for the last 7 years. I'll gladly participate with this one for: indefinitely

[-] nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago

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!

[-] AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago

sounds easy considering I haven't bought anything from Amazon in years

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[-] BigBenis@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Or how about you just stop buying from that cancerous blight on our society altogether?

[-] Anivia@feddit.org 0 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] daggermoon@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

I mostly shop on eBay now. Way better anyway.

[-] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 1 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Lootboblin@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

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!)

[-] 4am@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

We have a lot more to atone for than the orange Nazi but thanks for the vote of faith

[-] sunglocto@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] SausageWallet@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

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!

[-] 0ops@lemm.ee 0 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] iowagneiss@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Engywuck@lemm.ee 0 points 1 week ago

LOL, I'm boycotting Amazon since 2007, at least. Good luck!

[-] thesystemisdown@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] Brodysseus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

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?

[-] thesystemisdown@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Absolutely, and thanks for asking. Also, congrats! I'd recommend looking at credit unions (US/Canada) and higher ed. Both are non-profits and good stepping stones. Either can be a career if you don't want a 'stepping stone.' Depending on how altruistic you want to be, you can find either that serve underserved communities. CUs pay better, but are more corporate and demanding. Higher ed doesn't pay as well, but is more laid back if you can ignore politics, which there is a ridiculous amount of. I worked at a HBCU (US) for a long time, and it was pretty great. Depending on where you are, it's usually pretty easy to find an open spot at either.

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