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Amazon releases Prime Day results
- Thread starter Chessguy1
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- Amazon welcomed more new Prime members on July 15 than any previous day, and almost as many on July 16 – making these the two biggest days ever for member signups.
I'd bet almost all of those were free trials, and canceled after the sale.
Right, but it's not like putting off your errands for 2 days was ever going to do much. The absolute height of slacktivism. Cancelling your Prime/Audible/Twitch subs would be much more meaningful, rather than just waiting an extra day to order the same shit you would have on Prime day. The whole thing was hollow as fuck, and the height of moral posturing. While I personally didn't buy anything (partially because I don't really get the point of Amazon Inventory Cleanout Day, partially due to the boycott), anyone who had any expectation of a few Twitter accounts shaming people for shopping instead of supporting workers somehow meaningfully impacting the shopping plans of value-oriented consumers was deluding themselves.
agressive man. Im talking about the part that people always use that bad excuse that they lack time. Before internet people had the same long working hours, the same busy social lifes and the same hectic children to take care off. Yet people were able to go to the store to buy shit. And no im not old before you think that, i grew up with internet. Its just my pet peeve. i can understand you want to safe time but too busy for it?
I try no-rush, but more than half the time they still send it in 1 or 2 days. I think the only reliable way to slow them down is to designate your Amazon Day.
Your post was patronizing and I'm not in the mood for it.
People prefer convience above all things else. These things are invented to make life easier.
Yes, people found time to go to Blockbuster before, now we don't have to do that anymore. People used to have to go to bank to move money around, now we don't have to do that anymore. Just because they used to do it one way doesn't mean they'll want to stick with it especially because they can appreciate the amount of time it saves them.
It's your pet peeves that people adjusted to this?
Am I gonna give shit to my 40 year old boss for using Uber eats just because I have no issue picking up food. No.
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The goal of boycotting is not necessarily just to change the company involved but to increase public mindshare about the subject. This thread is 5 pages and was just started, it's extremely active. I think they're worthwhile for that reason alone.
This is a good discussion on the subject: https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2017/02/07/when-do-consumer-boycotts-work
That was a price error where people got thousand dollars and up of camera equipment for under a hundred bucks, so even if deals were amazing there was going to be discussion on it. However, just like any other prime day the main deals that weren't price mistakes and were readily available were amazon's own products.
One thing is to discuss it, but it dominated the whole thread, we also a lot of people begging to buy some of the equipment, it was a mess.
no the right choice is heavy legislation for worker protections.
23&Me? Really? Talk about frivolous. And this from a person who briefly considered getting a dna test for my dog.
Yes and just like civil rights this needs to be done through legislation and not rely on the kindness of peoples hearts
nah that is not my pet peeve and you didnt understand me apperently. But i appologize i came across as patronizing to you, i was not targeting you but people in general. You seem in a bad mood and i genuinly hope you have a better day :)
You're right. We desperately need legislative change. It's frustrating to see victims of a bad system blame each other for problems well beyond their control; especially when we're all just trying to cope and get by. Not that there's anything wrong with trying to get more people to participate in various forms of action, but because we feel so powerless, our energy ends up focused on each other rather than the people in power who are pulling everyone's strings.
It's just miserable.
I bought lighting equipment for video work, great deals here in Mexico, almost bought a fifth camera i don't even need with hoy good deals were, the Nikon Z6 was at one point selling for $900 USD which is half of it's usual discounted price, crazy.
"oh yeah, well there's no ethical consumption under capitalism! checkmate, socialists" is not quite the take I expected to see
I don't even see the no rush option anymore, just amazon day, which now gives the $1 digital credit. Just moved into an apt complex so at least the driver isn't just delivering just my packages each time. I see tons of packages along with mine everytime I order anything.
But yeah I used to try to game the system with no rush. If I had multiple items i wanted, I'd do no rush on each item, except 1 as no rush to stock up on credit then do a regular 2 day and often times they'd all be shipped together anyway.
Because we all work 60 hours this week at my Amazon FC.
I still have 1 night of 12 hours to go.
I still have 1 night of 12 hours to go.