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I deleted all my amazon accounts a few weeks ago, and have no plans to go back. When I order things now, I'll just order through the vendor instead of Amazon, I can live with it taking longer or costing a bit more.

The problem of boycotting Amazon for over a year now is that I can't participate in collective actions like this one.

I deleted my account about a month ago.

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!

You know all the twitch streamers hate this.

I'm participating in this on principle, but mostly on bankruptness.

A whole week 😲

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.

I haven’t bought anything from Amazon since Christmas anyway. I’ll probably cancel my subscription after this year. I’m already paid up for the year.

Yes. Immediately after the fiscal quarter ends, giving them plenty of time to make up for it when everyone who put it off for a week just buys it the next week. Because that's when it'll hurt, not right before they have to report numbers.

Never started buying from amazon. The stories on Reddit where enough to turn way. I admit having searched the site now and then, but you get the same prices elsewhere, Especially in Europe there is no need for them.

I stopped buying on Amazon Jan 20. I will cancel Amazon Prime today. Many people will also stop buying and many people will cancel Prime. When they stop buying for a week, they tend to find alternatives that they stick with. I was buying several hundred dollars worth of merch but have found better alternatives. I will not go back. Seven days is just a start. Amazon is noticing.

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.

I've been boycotting Amazon since the days when they were an ugly data grabbing bookstore and I'll happily go on until the end of time.

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.

Honestly its just too easy to entirely cut them out of your life, coming from a heavy user previously. Alexas are gone. Prime canceled. Chase card closed. It was tough for one day, but now I feel great knowing I am not contributing to my own disenfranchisement. Also, saving lots of money after killing my consumption addiction.

I highly recommend it!

Late to the party but my subscription is officially cancelled in a couple days.

Be nice if these sort of things linked to a committee that actually proposed a strategy.

I applaud it, really. Maybe it won't disrupt the system but it's a first darn step changing habits. This is the opposite of inactivity, of laissez-faire, of "eh we can't change anything anyway."

I wish all of you good luck and I hope for those who do change their habits by joining an Amazon boycot the drive to keep going.

I've only briefly looked at the comments and my, what party poopers. Small sacrifices are still sacrifices.

Easy - I stopped using Amazon period.

I'm an idiot, I thought this was a March 😂

But this is still super not effective. How do people think this affects anything. It also is kind of ick too. If you have the energy and time you organize this, why not just shit post for a week instead. You'll get more mileage. The most effective thing is spreading a message. I have no idea what refusing to buy things for a day will do. You need to spread a message so this action can be sustain. It needs to be a new Zeitgeist. This "do this for a day" stuff acts more like a pressure relief. Like we all watch the day come and go and nothing changes then we go back to our lives. Instead, make content and posted outside our echo chambers at a level that moderation can't sustain. This is what the Republicans did. Get your message to the faces of people who fence sit

I've stopped using amazon as my one-stop shop years ago. I think the majority of the population has gotten too used to convenience over ethic's.

sounds easy considering I haven't bought anything from Amazon in years