Don’t use it. Don’t go there . Find the company website. Get in your car and go to a storefront.
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Oh just stop this Jihad against Amazon; It has gone on long enough. Amazon probably had a perfectly legitimate reason for deleting those reviews, like maybe, the reviewers never read the books? I live in a rural area where I can’t just “get in my car and drive to a storefront”; Amazon has been a great benefit to me and my family.
We all like to buy cheap chinese sh&t, we all love to get those great deals.
We all love to spend money we didn’t need to spend.
We all love to have the latest electronics, clothes, yada yada
Amazon makes this extremely easy for all of us to sit on our fat ass and throw our money away—-to china.
The scary laughs from alexa in the middle of the night, that’s our own stupidity laughing at us.
Yah, we need to stop.
Sorry,but they provide a valuable service to those of us who don’t live in the big cities.
A couple of weeks ago,I needed an item which was locally available for $75 plus tax, checked amazon, found identical item in Ontario, for $50 including tax and shipping.
Was looking for a special sized roasting pan,couldn’t find one locally, found one in Ontario, on amazon,made in Canada, cheaper than the smaller ones available locally.
I’m not going to boycott a business based on one article,the local shop may be owned by a person I wouldn’t want to support. Life isn’t perfect,neither are corporations or people.
On the other hand they will provide you with Chesterton’s Orthodoxy in digital form at their own expense.
Sure, you could just grab the source text from Project Gutenberg, but that rather strengthens my observation rather than weakening it.
Yeah, they have a corporate culture that enhances the rogue employee problem (this isn’t the first round of this shit) and the Jeff Bezos blog is a repulsive rag for progressive midwits, but Amazon isn’t pure evil. Just 99 44/100%.
Don’t confuse convenience with necessity. Free market does NOT mean buying at the cheapest price. It means being able to chose with whom you will do business. Amazon does not support the free market, know the devil you do business with.
I buy a lot of laser printer toner cartridges. I used to pay $95 locally. I now pay $11 each delivered from Amazon.
I’m quite fine sending money to China in exchange for goods.
Amazon provides an excellent, superb service. Once again: make something better. Or not, either way just stop whining.
Maybe Amazon doesn’t support the free market but they couldn’t operate without it.
I use it. Sure there is a lot of BS on it but the world is full of it as well.
Bandwidth costs being what they are, its not feasible for every Tom, Dick and Heinlein to set up a streaming video site. But it is feasible to set up your own ebook web store for self-published fiction; a decent ops person could set one up for you in an afternoon, and I doubt the hosting costs would run more than $10/month or so.
Although I’m not a huge fan of Azure technically, I wonder how Microsoft compares to Amazon and Google on the CSR scale. They’ve tended to avoid politicizing their business.
well mr morris, the way it works is this: undercut ALL the ‘traditional’ competition, and when they vanish, jack up the MONOPOLY prices to make up for the ‘loss leaders’ AND reap huge profits thereafter. megacorps have been doing this since Teddy Roosevelt’s time because it works.
m’kay? comprendez maintenant?
It’s inconsistent to call for readers to boycott one of the biased tech companies whilst yourself using the services of the others (i.e. YouTube and Twitter).
Plus the ads at left leading to Amazon seem to be coded into the blog page rather than placed by some third-party algorithm.
I find Amazon’s site very difficult to search and navigate as every search produces a huge number of “curated” irrelevant products that don’t come close to my search term. I actually HATE going to their site.
However, they’re really really good at tracking my every purchase and spamming me with a never ending contrail of offers for more of the same thing. It gets quite annoying. And … Amazon offers me NO discounts (typically) every quality item I want is $ full retail. Better to find it locally.
I also use multiple specialized printer and plotter ink cartridges … and they’re ALL $ full retail on Amazon … unless you want some Chinese knock-off that will ruin your equipment … I get hundreds of search results for that crap which I did NOT ask for.
I avoid Amazon whenever I can
Two days ago I bought a “B.O.B” oil drain saver on Amazon. It was invented and manufactured in America, and is only available on Amazon.
Correction: The B.O.B is also available from Grainger, for $3 more plus I would have had to pay shipping and wouldn’t get it in two days like I did on Amazon.
Recently shopped locally and told them I wanted to support local business. The owner smiled and gave me 10 % off, so it was more economical than on line. We both knew this was true as this was a brand name item! I will go back.
That’s nice, saved a few bucks eh? Well, if you want to argue all is fair in love, war, and business then hell do whatever it takes to save them bucks. The chinese are doing exactly the same thing back to us, so is amazon.
Be that forcing tax concessions from local gov’ts, or federal tax exemptions, or just playing fast and loose with internation tax law -amazon does it all, but that’s fair right – after all, that ma and pa shop down the road can do the same thing. Right?
Oh, they bring lots of jobs. Sure, that is good too. We need lots of low-skill muscle to pack and haul boxes, that’s precisely the type of long term economy we want to build. Don’t encourage entrepreneurship, just tell everyone to take a crazy, non-salaried, cut-rate delivery contract with time to pizz in a bottle for your break.
Like I said, I am free market – nothing but. However, but cheap ain’t free, there is a price being paid. We just don’t want to pull our head out of our azz to see it. Save them bucks.
Facebook censors conservative content, data mines personal information and collects biometric data, using its members’ photographs, which are usually posted to be seen by family members. I was able to buy a book via Amazon on Obama’s presidency, written by Matt Margolis and Mark Noonan, whose new book on Obama’s scandals is being banned by *Facebook.* ‘The Worst President in History’ is available on Amazon. It took a month for delivery, but it’s factual and well-documented.
My attitude is: pick your poison. The big tech corporations are ALL about amassing power and money.
My local book store sells mainly liberal pap.
The Ma and Pa store is probably obsolete. There is nothing about Amazon that destroys entrepreneurship anymore than Microsoft did when it supposedly held a ‘monopoly’. Indeed, few things could better foster business than cheap easily available supplies.
Its not hard to make a inexpensive product when you have a billion excess slave labourers at your disposal… Its fine that you don’t care that their lives are a misery and they are completely disposable to their government, as long as you get cheaper goods right? I try not to buy chinese, I refuse to honour cuba with my money, I dont buy california wine, I don’t buy from walmart and I don’t buy from Amazon.
Slave Labourers? WTF are you talking about?
Indeed a lot of the conservative books do attract troll leftist fake reviews, by people who have never read the book. So if that is what they were removing, that’s fine. It would be nice if they would just say what the criteria are. For instance, they can know if the reviewer is on file as having bought the book from Amazon. I have only done a few reviews, and I think they are all for things that I actually bought from them. Maybe if I have the energy I will check to see if my reviews remain.
WTF am I talking about and I quote you:I’m quite fine sending money to China in exchange for goods.
Amazon provides an excellent, superb service. Once again: make something better. Or not, either way just stop whining
My statement stands, slave labour or were you under the impression that China was a free and open society where people create their own destiny?.. communiusm baby!!!!! equal slavery for every animal except for a special few who are more equal in the ruling class. What you think they all sit around at the end of the day smoking thier bong singing Kumbia? so happy to be part of the collective?
Jeff Bezons is the worlds biggest Lieberal piece of carp. the sooner you realize that the better.
The thing many of you mock and laugh at and ridicule is the very thing that is about to fix all of this.
Blockchain technology , DECENTRALIZED internet no one owns it no one can control it it’s a trustless system ….everyone is involved yet no one knows eacothers esistence or where ABOUT or contact information they simply pass information along untouched unfiltered (it cannot be filtered as it’s on a block chain tampering creates a bad block and it is never agreed upon by the nodes adm is discarded)
It’s all coming guys.
Oh just stop this Jihad against Amazon; It has gone on long enough. Amazon probably had a perfectly legitimate reason for deleting those reviews, like maybe, the reviewers never read the books? I live in a rural area where I can’t just “get in my car and drive to a storefront”; Amazon has been a great benefit to me and my family.
We all like to buy cheap chinese sh&t, we all love to get those great deals.
We all love to spend money we didn’t need to spend.
We all love to have the latest electronics, clothes, yada yada
Amazon makes this extremely easy for all of us to sit on our fat ass and throw our money away—-to china.
The scary laughs from alexa in the middle of the night, that’s our own stupidity laughing at us.
Yah, we need to stop.
Sorry,but they provide a valuable service to those of us who don’t live in the big cities.
A couple of weeks ago,I needed an item which was locally available for $75 plus tax, checked amazon, found identical item in Ontario, for $50 including tax and shipping.
Was looking for a special sized roasting pan,couldn’t find one locally, found one in Ontario, on amazon,made in Canada, cheaper than the smaller ones available locally.
I’m not going to boycott a business based on one article,the local shop may be owned by a person I wouldn’t want to support. Life isn’t perfect,neither are corporations or people.
On the other hand they will provide you with Chesterton’s Orthodoxy in digital form at their own expense.
Sure, you could just grab the source text from Project Gutenberg, but that rather strengthens my observation rather than weakening it.
Yeah, they have a corporate culture that enhances the rogue employee problem (this isn’t the first round of this shit) and the Jeff Bezos blog is a repulsive rag for progressive midwits, but Amazon isn’t pure evil. Just 99 44/100%.
Don’t confuse convenience with necessity. Free market does NOT mean buying at the cheapest price. It means being able to chose with whom you will do business. Amazon does not support the free market, know the devil you do business with.
I buy a lot of laser printer toner cartridges. I used to pay $95 locally. I now pay $11 each delivered from Amazon.
I’m quite fine sending money to China in exchange for goods.
Amazon provides an excellent, superb service. Once again: make something better. Or not, either way just stop whining.
Maybe Amazon doesn’t support the free market but they couldn’t operate without it.
I use it. Sure there is a lot of BS on it but the world is full of it as well.
Bandwidth costs being what they are, its not feasible for every Tom, Dick and Heinlein to set up a streaming video site. But it is feasible to set up your own ebook web store for self-published fiction; a decent ops person could set one up for you in an afternoon, and I doubt the hosting costs would run more than $10/month or so.
Although I’m not a huge fan of Azure technically, I wonder how Microsoft compares to Amazon and Google on the CSR scale. They’ve tended to avoid politicizing their business.
well mr morris, the way it works is this: undercut ALL the ‘traditional’ competition, and when they vanish, jack up the MONOPOLY prices to make up for the ‘loss leaders’ AND reap huge profits thereafter. megacorps have been doing this since Teddy Roosevelt’s time because it works.
m’kay? comprendez maintenant?
It’s inconsistent to call for readers to boycott one of the biased tech companies whilst yourself using the services of the others (i.e. YouTube and Twitter).
Plus the ads at left leading to Amazon seem to be coded into the blog page rather than placed by some third-party algorithm.
I find Amazon’s site very difficult to search and navigate as every search produces a huge number of “curated” irrelevant products that don’t come close to my search term. I actually HATE going to their site.
However, they’re really really good at tracking my every purchase and spamming me with a never ending contrail of offers for more of the same thing. It gets quite annoying. And … Amazon offers me NO discounts (typically) every quality item I want is $ full retail. Better to find it locally.
I also use multiple specialized printer and plotter ink cartridges … and they’re ALL $ full retail on Amazon … unless you want some Chinese knock-off that will ruin your equipment … I get hundreds of search results for that crap which I did NOT ask for.
I avoid Amazon whenever I can
Two days ago I bought a “B.O.B” oil drain saver on Amazon. It was invented and manufactured in America, and is only available on Amazon.
Correction: The B.O.B is also available from Grainger, for $3 more plus I would have had to pay shipping and wouldn’t get it in two days like I did on Amazon.
Recently shopped locally and told them I wanted to support local business. The owner smiled and gave me 10 % off, so it was more economical than on line. We both knew this was true as this was a brand name item! I will go back.
That’s nice, saved a few bucks eh? Well, if you want to argue all is fair in love, war, and business then hell do whatever it takes to save them bucks. The chinese are doing exactly the same thing back to us, so is amazon.
Be that forcing tax concessions from local gov’ts, or federal tax exemptions, or just playing fast and loose with internation tax law -amazon does it all, but that’s fair right – after all, that ma and pa shop down the road can do the same thing. Right?
Oh, they bring lots of jobs. Sure, that is good too. We need lots of low-skill muscle to pack and haul boxes, that’s precisely the type of long term economy we want to build. Don’t encourage entrepreneurship, just tell everyone to take a crazy, non-salaried, cut-rate delivery contract with time to pizz in a bottle for your break.
Like I said, I am free market – nothing but. However, but cheap ain’t free, there is a price being paid. We just don’t want to pull our head out of our azz to see it. Save them bucks.
Facebook censors conservative content, data mines personal information and collects biometric data, using its members’ photographs, which are usually posted to be seen by family members. I was able to buy a book via Amazon on Obama’s presidency, written by Matt Margolis and Mark Noonan, whose new book on Obama’s scandals is being banned by *Facebook.* ‘The Worst President in History’ is available on Amazon. It took a month for delivery, but it’s factual and well-documented.
My attitude is: pick your poison. The big tech corporations are ALL about amassing power and money.
My local book store sells mainly liberal pap.
The Ma and Pa store is probably obsolete. There is nothing about Amazon that destroys entrepreneurship anymore than Microsoft did when it supposedly held a ‘monopoly’. Indeed, few things could better foster business than cheap easily available supplies.
Its not hard to make a inexpensive product when you have a billion excess slave labourers at your disposal… Its fine that you don’t care that their lives are a misery and they are completely disposable to their government, as long as you get cheaper goods right? I try not to buy chinese, I refuse to honour cuba with my money, I dont buy california wine, I don’t buy from walmart and I don’t buy from Amazon.
Slave Labourers? WTF are you talking about?
Indeed a lot of the conservative books do attract troll leftist fake reviews, by people who have never read the book. So if that is what they were removing, that’s fine. It would be nice if they would just say what the criteria are. For instance, they can know if the reviewer is on file as having bought the book from Amazon. I have only done a few reviews, and I think they are all for things that I actually bought from them. Maybe if I have the energy I will check to see if my reviews remain.
WTF am I talking about and I quote you:I’m quite fine sending money to China in exchange for goods.
Amazon provides an excellent, superb service. Once again: make something better. Or not, either way just stop whining
My statement stands, slave labour or were you under the impression that China was a free and open society where people create their own destiny?.. communiusm baby!!!!! equal slavery for every animal except for a special few who are more equal in the ruling class. What you think they all sit around at the end of the day smoking thier bong singing Kumbia? so happy to be part of the collective?
Jeff Bezons is the worlds biggest Lieberal piece of carp. the sooner you realize that the better.
The thing many of you mock and laugh at and ridicule is the very thing that is about to fix all of this.
Blockchain technology , DECENTRALIZED internet no one owns it no one can control it it’s a trustless system ….everyone is involved yet no one knows eacothers esistence or where ABOUT or contact information they simply pass information along untouched unfiltered (it cannot be filtered as it’s on a block chain tampering creates a bad block and it is never agreed upon by the nodes adm is discarded)
It’s all coming guys.