The solution would be easy if everyone would do it. Stop buying from Amazon. I’m trying to buy anything I need directly from the provider or at good old fashioned stores.
Amazon has been my last purchasing option for many years now - brick & mortar, CL/FB market used, eBay and then Amazon if all fails and I really need the thing.
Edit - the added benefit of this approach is that friction introduced in the process allows me a cool down period to evaluate whether something is truly needed.
Reducing the friction is precisely part of Amazon’s business strategy, and why they had a patent on 1-click shopping until a few yrs ago.
I’ve been doing this since 2020. Just the other day I let it slip to some co-workers that I don’t have a prime membership and the shock on their faces kinda spooked me.
It’s pretty difficult to find a variety of things without using an evil big store, but nowadays people can use a temporary card service or a paypal service to shop at a variety of smaller specialist online stores with minimal risk of fraud anyways.
I look locally for items online first, but where I am at some computer/hardware/tool items are hard to get especially with Canadian Tire turning into a terrible place to buy tools. Amazon is good for folks like my mom that doesn’t drive and is not very mobile. Amazon will delivery heavy items to her door so she doesn’t have to hobble out to a store
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The solution would be easy if everyone would do it. Stop buying from Amazon. I’m trying to buy anything I need directly from the provider or at good old fashioned stores.
Amazon has been my last purchasing option for many years now - brick & mortar, CL/FB market used, eBay and then Amazon if all fails and I really need the thing.
Edit - the added benefit of this approach is that friction introduced in the process allows me a cool down period to evaluate whether something is truly needed. Reducing the friction is precisely part of Amazon’s business strategy, and why they had a patent on 1-click shopping until a few yrs ago.
An alternative to eBay and PayPal is needed! Thiel is up there too with Musk and Bozo.
Even if something you actually need is only on Bezos’ website, I’ve had some luck contacting a seller directly and arranging a sale that way.
I’ve been doing this since 2020. Just the other day I let it slip to some co-workers that I don’t have a prime membership and the shock on their faces kinda spooked me.
For watching prime, I aarrrrr
i use bookshop.org whenever i need to order a book online. a portion of the sale goes to my local book coop.
There ya go! Will get my books from there now
It’s pretty difficult to find a variety of things without using an evil big store, but nowadays people can use a temporary card service or a paypal service to shop at a variety of smaller specialist online stores with minimal risk of fraud anyways.
I look locally for items online first, but where I am at some computer/hardware/tool items are hard to get especially with Canadian Tire turning into a terrible place to buy tools. Amazon is good for folks like my mom that doesn’t drive and is not very mobile. Amazon will delivery heavy items to her door so she doesn’t have to hobble out to a store
Always true, applies everywhere.