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Amazon's Monopoly of the tech industry is ruining the US economy (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I wanted to get printer photo paper for my printer, a Canon. I went to Walmart, They had nothing. Went to Target, they had one pack of photo paper and it was crazy expensive, so I went to micro center. That one was just as expensive. So finally I went back to Amazon, which I was trying to avoid, and saw the price 25 to 40% lower than anywhere I had been. Literally everything that I was looking for, I could find within seconds. Not even Best buy has even close to the amount of inventory or variety, even when you're shopping online....

Therefore, I think Amazon has a literal monopoly in the tech industry right now, you're literally forced to buy from them, because unless you have the money and financial fortitude to protest with your wallet, you're going to be buying from them. There's no other choice. They have so aggressively and dominantly taken over the supply chain market that no other tech company can currently compete with them in any aspect at all. You will be paying 40 to 50% more on everything by cutting out Amazon, and no one has the money for that anymore unless you're upper middle class or above

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 month ago (16 children)

Here in Germany there are still plenty of independent online retailers and they're competitive with Amazon. I always try to avoid buying from Amazon and for tech products that's usually no problem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Do you have some good examples? I recently moved there, and want to avoid Amazon, when possible

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

In more general terms, you can look up the item at e.g. Idealo.de or other product comparison sites and then decide where to buy. Amazon is most often not the cheapest, even including additional delivery cost

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I like to order tech stuff from mindfactory.de

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Just don't let them assemble anything. I am serious. Whatever they can mess up and break, they will. It's honestly astonishing how careless they handle sinfully expensive high end parts. And sure you can generally send it back and wait another week or two, but only after making several calls with their customer service. So yeah you better prepare to build your machine yourself. This is not really optional.

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