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I deleted all my amazon accounts a few weeks ago, and have no plans to go back. When I order things now, I'll just order through the vendor instead of Amazon, I can live with it taking longer or costing a bit more.

Honestly its just too easy to entirely cut them out of your life, coming from a heavy user previously. Alexas are gone. Prime canceled. Chase card closed. It was tough for one day, but now I feel great knowing I am not contributing to my own disenfranchisement. Also, saving lots of money after killing my consumption addiction.

I highly recommend it!

I cancelled Amazon years ago and haven’t looked back. Initial FOMO for basic things and for hard to find items. Funny enough, you get better shipping and better deals FROM the actual company than through Amazon.

Fuck Amazon and anything Bezos owns. Stop funding these billionaire fucks.

Boycotts are useless.

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

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

See for instance Reddit

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

We need to turn this into a cancellation party

Americans really dont know how to protest...

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."

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

I deleted my account about a month ago.

I've stopped using amazon as my one-stop shop years ago. I think the majority of the population has gotten too used to convenience over ethic's.

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

Take the plunge and cut them out completely. After I stopped using Amazon I realized it is just like a drug, wasted money on useless things because they want you to consume more and more.

Amazon.com could shut down at any point and Bezos wouldn't lose anything really. Most of the web runs on Amazon web services. You don't have to buy anything from them. If you're online, you're their product.

Recommendations: if you have any technical aptitude, get a vice, pliers, wirecutters, nylon cord, and several yards of fastener wire from a local hardware store. That can solve a very large number of minor accessory problems with ingenuity. Old-school prototyping can ween you Off buying smaller "specialized" products.

A whole week 😲

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.

Convincing your employer to reduce AWS costs, or better yet, go with a different cloud provider would likely have more financial impact than boycotting the portion of the company that represents a smaller percentage of their operating profit.

Easy - I stopped using Amazon period.

Be nice if these sort of things linked to a committee that actually proposed a strategy.

I am at a weird-feeling place at the moment. I got too comfortable buying things from Amazon, so my brain doesn't know how to shop now. But I canceled my Prime soon after the inauguration, and I'm thinking I need to delete my account all together to kind of force myself to start working on using alternatives.

I’m boycotting Amazon and other stores from now on. If these billionaires and Russian assets want a war, they’ll feel it where it hurts the most—their wallets!

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.