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No one is on Lemmy because they like shitty corps so I need your help

I'm at a loss. Increasingly whenever I order New on eBay or wherever, the order gets fulfilled by Amazon.

When I complain to the site I bought it from they shrug.

I'm regularly paying more for items and still funding an undeniably awful company

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You accept that you live in the most late stage capitalist country of all time that's very pro monopoly.

And then you move I guess. No one believes USA will ever change for the better.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Move to Czechia! Amazon's presence is negligible here, we have our own local alternatives (Alza.cz being the biggest one, but we also have a plethora of e-commerce sites in general).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Germany also has plenty other websites like Otto and Kaufland. And they all your favourite random letter brands you can find in amazon.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

In Switzerland we don't even have Amazon. We can order from one of the neighbourhing countries' Amazon, but they don't always ship here. There are a lot of alternatives though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Really it’s the internet that enables these monopolies. It nullifies space for information. Like a little pizza place can only have so much reach. But if the product is teleported, then that little pizza operation can just keep growing and growing smoothly and taking more of the market. And it can happen really fast.