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For some time now I’ve been very successful at not buying anything from Amazon.
yeah, I only use it for bullshit now, like 200 mini plastic ducks I can leave all around work
If you're willing to wait 2 weeks for shipping (with an added shipping cost of $0.40) you can just order that stuff directly from Aliexpress and cut out the middle man.
you know what, honestly, youre right
for bullshit like that i should
theyre taking two weeks to ship anyways 🙄
I've been considering this as my New Years Resolution. I'm ashamed that I might be too weak to go through with it. The convenience is just so...manipulative and infantilizing. I am perfectly capable of buying anything I need from a physical store front.
Yeah, buying from physical stores also helps your local economy. Otherwise there’s eBay and Aliexe (spelling?)
Try sorting results by 'price low to high' and then watch as it completely ignores you - no - laughs in your fucking face - as it gives you results in whatever goddamn order it so desires.
It might make it easier to give it up if you can fully realize that Amazon is now 100% in the business of fucking you over.
Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
If you need something you can still search for it using Google. Sometimes manufacturers even have lists of companies who sell their stuff. You can buy from some other retailer.
And if Amazon is a lot cheaper or the only option, then you suck it up to living in a fully-evolved capitalistic hell scape and buy it from Bezos.
Yeah, my husband and I stopped using Amazon years ago, and this is what we did. You can just Google anything you need to buy and then order it straight from the manufacturer.
This year I did dip my toe back into Amazon because I discovered we get a free Prime account through our cell phone provider, but I only use it for when I need something guaranteed delivery by a certain date. For everything else, I just go to a store's web site.
I usually completely forget I even have an account when I'm searching for stuff I need to buy.