We need to turn this into a cancellation party
this post was submitted on 06 Mar 2025
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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.
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.
Easy - I stopped using Amazon period.
I deleted my account about a month ago.
Be nice if these sort of things linked to a committee that actually proposed a strategy.
Haven’t used Amazon for 1.5 years already
Even people that use Amazon surely are most likely to not buy stuff in any typical week? I just stopped using it.
easier to just cancel prime
I guess it’s a good thing that I’ve always been a minimalist. These things don’t really impact me. I very rarely buy stuff.
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Wouldn't it be easier to disrupt the system by—I don't know—something old & boring like asking everyone to clean out/close their bank accounts at the same time to cause a run on banks?
Where do people come up with these weaker ideas? Trump's inanity might disrupt the economy more than these efforts.
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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.
A whole week 😲
I get where you're coming from, but just like with the single day, people have to start somewhere.
These events can help people break habits and find alternatives without something as big as "never again".
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Just avoid everything GAFAM. They were already capitalist bitches, now they're fascist capitalist bitches.
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Wait until the 15th to order everything you were going to order this week. That will show them!
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!
Let’s keep this up!! We all save money and they lose money!
Much of the province of Québec is already boycotting them since January, after they closed all their warehouses here to prevent them from unionizing.
I moved on from Amazon to local after the 28th.
With a few exceptions, I haven't bought from Amazon in more than a decade. I never buy from them unless I absolutely can't find the thing I need anywhere else.
This is too weak and virtue oriented.
That said, I guess its better than nothing. Focusing on promoting alternatives however would probably be a little more effective. Amazon has a lot of weird niche products that I've struggled to find else where from trust-able sellers.
Practice makes perfect, but this better viewed as steps to cutting them out of our lives and not just nudging them to stop supporting facism, destroying workers and our planet.
The need us. We don't need them.