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.
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.