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  • lettruthout
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    477 months ago

    For some time now I’ve been very successful at not buying anything from Amazon.

    • strawberry
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      107 months ago

      yeah, I only use it for bullshit now, like 200 mini plastic ducks I can leave all around work

      • @IHawkMike@lemmy.world
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        157 months ago

        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.

        • strawberry
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          26 months ago

          you know what, honestly, youre right

          for bullshit like that i should

          theyre taking two weeks to ship anyways 🙄

    • @Subtracty@lemmy.world
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      87 months ago

      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.

      • lettruthout
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        77 months ago

        Yeah, buying from physical stores also helps your local economy. Otherwise there’s eBay and Aliexe (spelling?)

      • @Supervisor194@lemmy.world
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        47 months ago

        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.