Ran across this video randomly, and It got me so angry I was literally seeing red:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So9stcDzLHE
TL;DR, Amazon hired an ex Federal prosecutor, who got his friends in the US Attorney office to charge a real estate developer who specializes in data center real estate development with federal crimes. They did everything they usually do, including asset forfeiture. Fighting these charges cost this family their cars, their house, their retirement savings.
I cancelled my Prime membership years ago, but have still bought things on Amazon. That stops right fucking now.
If you boycotted every time a corp committed a crime, you would quickly find yourself using no products or services at all.
You should cancel prime because it's not a good deal, and if you want chinese crap order it straight from china on aliexpress instead of giving Bezos a 150% markup.
You say that like it would be a bad thing.
Don't be an idiot and start boycotting all at once, but it's an incredibly good idea to try and boycott as much as possible while being as independent as possible.
Remember, nothing is hated more than people who don't need what the establishment has (or rather, claims to has) to offer. Can you boycott everyone? Probably not. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try to better yourself by cutting these cancers borne out of a misguided sense of convenience out of your life. There's no reason to give up on bettering your circumstances just because you might not be able to make it to some idealistic hypothetical.
Also, I doubt OP has much issue with companies committing "crimes", broadly speaking, and more cares about what types of immoral/unethical actions they've undertaken. There's a big difference between a company fudging their tax numbers and a company utilising state powers against people to leave said targets financially ruined. Really pales in comparison to one another.
No kidding, it's crazy how bad Chinese knockoffs have become on Amazon. It's impossible to get old used gaming anything either, without having to wade through dozens of (RENEWED) items.
#2 reason I quit using Amazon. It just plain sucks now. No, I don't want "LONGDONG real PC game mouse" that is $1 on AliExpress, I want the typical branded crap.
#1 is they hit me with fraudulent transactions on an account with all the security features on, having never triggered any of them, and their customer service for fraud is as shit as the contents of Biden's diaper. I have to get all the way to #3 to consider politics.
I've gotten where I target quality and repairability where I can and I just buy from the manufacturer's website when I need random boxed crap. It's a tiny bit more, but for example I just bought a Moccamaster single cup coffee machine, holy shit that thing is in a different world than the Chinese plastic k-cup things that will break in two years. I also buy less random boxed crap, didn't need it anyway,
What did it for me with Amazon aside from the product quality being shit was the awful website and I somehow managed to get clicked onto their Amazon Prime trial. I swear I clicked on cancel when they did that nasty pop up and that was the final straw for me because they really do just nab your details from your account and start trying to send you crap in the mail. It tells you something as well when even the normies notice this shit and the regulators get involved telling Amazon off for it. Granted, it won't do much but that's how bad they are towards customers.
Ever since then I've avoided that site, you can't escape the corporations entirely unfortunately, that's just the way it is for a lot of people because of the area they live in. What I do though is I find national branches and the like and order off them. As an example with my PC stuff I order from Overclockers and now Ebuyer which I didn't know was a thing but that site is perfect for doing small purchases. Unlike Ebay I know those will at least be legit products and not stolen.
Ebuyer also has the added bonus of having a guest checkout which I always appreciate.
We need to bring back physical stores. Cut this online crap. Yes it requires effort but it's better to talk to someone and feel the physical product and there's something special if the store has a good atmosphere online sellers can't beat.
I hate physical stores more and more these days, they don't stock them properly so you have to go to multiple stores and see what's there, employees are often low IQ retards and you end up having to go online anyway to get anything close to what you want because the big warehouses are where they keep their main stock anyway. The online stock checkers if they do have them barely work because most 'tech' that these stores use are poorly coded databases from the 90's that never get updated and have their bugs fixed.
Counter point to psycial stores: seen niggers do nigger things.
I recommend surgical removal of the tumors before they metastatize.
I've seen the same thing. I've wondered how much of it is Amazon just preferring the Chinese garbage and how much it's the major brand companies want you to just use their own websites and avoid the "Amazon tax"
Same with Walmart+
With the massive growth of small companies selling online and shipping, now is the best time to seek alternatives. Ever since I cancelled Prime and stopped ordering stuff off Amazon, I've been able to find alternatives to every single thing I've purchased. You just have to do a few minutes of research per product.
And use something other than Google to do the search.
Brave is decent, even though it still uses some Google algorithm search results. For conspiracy theory and ((())) related stuff, use Yandex.
I think the only thing Amazon has going for them at this point are their delivery lockers. If smaller online retailers could get together and start putting lockers out there I'd start using them more.
Meh, I'm willing to endure a lot more pain when it comes to shipping if I know the company and items I'm purchasing are worth it. Next day shipping? I don't care if it's Chinesium garbage. I'm White and can plan ahead, so I'm even fine with 2-3 month shipping for a good product.
Amazon has Elderberry which is the only cough medicine that doesn't make me have weird side effects but regular stores it's hit and miss so we have Prime just for that to get next day delivery. We don't live in a big city where there is 20 different stores though even when I was little there were better designed stores.
God I miss Circuit City when it actually worked!
"But I NEED my slop!"
There are decades upon decades of media to choose from and experience. You don't need to watch Endgame for the 10th time.
I'm talking about things like food, water, internet access, electronics, petroleum products, medicine, household goods - look into any company that produces any physical thing at scale and you'll find some abhorrent activity.
I have never seen endgame and I was considering amazon prime from the "free" shipping perspective. All the streaming services are a bad deal compared to a vpn + bittorrent.
Okay, but... did the developer commit a crime?
Land developer, y'know, being such a honorable, trustworthy profession.
More people on this board need to rebuild their skepticism. There is more evil in this world than just the woke mob.
Journos always lie, unless they're saying what I want to hear.
I mean, this is the same OP who said that anyone who had any skepticism about Patriot Front possibly being a fed were retards he was going to instantly block.
Literally preaching anti-skepticism, just "consume product (but on our side)."
That sounds absolutely fucking retarded, but I've come to accept that that's just an accurate description of the vast majority of the population.
It's animals that can speak all the way down.
Probably forgot to give 10% to the "big guy".
I think if you're in any way involved with KiA and still have a Netflix or Amazon sub, you need to seriously consider the level of cognitive dissonance you're operating under. Stop funding people who hate you and watching their slop that hates you.
I canceled Prime a long time ago and hardly use Amazon.
Stopped using Amazon years ago. Good luck getting cuckservatives to inconvenience themselves lol.
No principles; expert losers.
Ebay is sadly the only alternative which is equal to walking into a market place blindfolded. Ebay is the digital Portabello Road where you get stolen goods and I've gotten ripped off on almost every thing I got and some cases never got my order so I stopped. Amazon I've gotten ripped off a few times but many times gotten my money back almost right away.
When Jeff was around you could actually contact them right off the bat though the right thing to do was go thru the seller first if 3rd party otherwise skip that rule and go directly to Amazon and they will deal with it. If you don't get anything resolved by the 3rd party seller then Amazon would often automatically step in and unless you asked them too or you pulled your credit card out by default the money would go towards the Amazon gift card balance.
Several times I thought I didn't get my money back only to find out it was in the gift card balance which is a bit tricky to find. If possible avoid third party it's slow. Ebay is even slower then Amazon's 3rd party slowest service.
HOWEVER more and more it's becoming clear that if you don't do Prime and just pay for faster shipping it's actually better unless you really need a certain medicine stores don't have because the stores are too Fu$$$$$ stupid to carry the stuff that works.
They hired the prosecutor because they had a clause in a contract they had breached that said they could get out of that contract if this guy got convicted of a felony.
They never mention who hired the prosecutor, but this is highly jewish behavior.
Yup.
I won't say what I would have done other than to say that it won't involve lawyers or courtrooms.
I ordered the occasional thing off Amazon too. I'll make sure to use google or duckduckgo shopping for the occasional generic product I need.
That is what I plan on doing myself. Use Amazon to search, buy direct from the manufacturer if at all possible.
Sorry, I don’t live the frontier life where I have to literally make everything I own. Amazon is a monopoly. They don’t need a boycott. They need competition.
I firmly discarded Prime at the start of 2021. I truly try to avoid having to buy from Amazon and Walmart. Unfortunately, there are some things I really just can't get in my area other than Walmart, or shipped from Amazon.
Any organization that has ties with government are evil. It is actually illegal to have inside business going on.