Amazon said Tuesday it considered displaying import charges on items sold via its site for ultradiscount items, but that the plan "was never approved and not going to happen."
Wouldn’t this be a great time to stage massive boycotts and protests to force Amazon to do this. This is seriously something that would really be a strategic win that you can accomplish with your protest powers. Like why does no one ever organize this stuff. What’s scarier to Amazon then having people fucking abandon it enough to impact share prices. This is your wheel house you fucks. You have the chance to do something really funny.
An update on this. I’m seeing Walmart get caught up in this. I’m seeing people asking other stores to do the same. I think people want this enough it can become a huge headache for them.
I did turn off my Amazon renewal for next month, I don’t really care if it makes a difference in their bottom line, but my money doesn’t support this shit if I can help it.
Do you (or anyone who might know the actual numbers) think this would do anything? The people in the US would boycott Amazon by not shopping on it, cancelling Prime etc. but that’s not really where Amazon as a company makes their money.
AWS is Amazon’s primary revenue generator now as I understand it and the retail portion of the business is more akin to a side gig in terms of numbers. Anybody with a better grasp wanna chime in?
Profit. Aws is profitable. Products make most of their revenue, it’s just that selling junk for cheap is low margin so it’s low profit. But their costs mostly stay the same whether they sell junk or not, so it does matter whether they sell a lot or not.
So you all like your protests.
Wouldn’t this be a great time to stage massive boycotts and protests to force Amazon to do this. This is seriously something that would really be a strategic win that you can accomplish with your protest powers. Like why does no one ever organize this stuff. What’s scarier to Amazon then having people fucking abandon it enough to impact share prices. This is your wheel house you fucks. You have the chance to do something really funny.
An update on this. I’m seeing Walmart get caught up in this. I’m seeing people asking other stores to do the same. I think people want this enough it can become a huge headache for them.
I did turn off my Amazon renewal for next month, I don’t really care if it makes a difference in their bottom line, but my money doesn’t support this shit if I can help it.
Nice, now I’m not joking but keep telling others about it. Let them know to tell others. Keep it up until they are forced to make a choice
Do you (or anyone who might know the actual numbers) think this would do anything? The people in the US would boycott Amazon by not shopping on it, cancelling Prime etc. but that’s not really where Amazon as a company makes their money.
AWS is Amazon’s primary revenue generator now as I understand it and the retail portion of the business is more akin to a side gig in terms of numbers. Anybody with a better grasp wanna chime in?
Profit. Aws is profitable. Products make most of their revenue, it’s just that selling junk for cheap is low margin so it’s low profit. But their costs mostly stay the same whether they sell junk or not, so it does matter whether they sell a lot or not.