Amazon boycott March 7th through forever. There's no need to give them an end date. Our action is completely toothless when we literally spell out for them exactly when we'll come crawling back start giving them money again.
this post was submitted on 06 Mar 2025
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Boycott March 7th-14th. Amazon makes record sales on March 15th. Great job. High fives all around. That will show them. /s
Just stop using them entirely. Delete your account. It’s not that hard.
Someone recently gave me a voucher for them. A few minutes later I mentioned my intention to boycott them indefinitely – awkward.
Anyway, I used it up (since it's essentially lend money to them) and closed my account after.
Corporations don’t react as much as you’d think to 1 week interruptions in revenue numbers unfortunately as they are beholden to shareholders and shareholders react to quarterly earnings report. To truly send a message it would need to boycott from Q1 to Q2, basically Jan-April or even May.
I'm in.
I have been boycotting them for the last 7 years. I'll gladly participate with this one for: indefinitely
Awesome. Do you still buy online from other billion dollar companies or have you been able to go all local? I’m having a hard time getting past the convenience and cheapness they are able to provide. I have cut back a huge amount though since Covid where I never wanted to leave home to purchase things I need for home.
If possible I try to buy from local farmer markets (if my schedule lines up). Clothes I usually buy second hand or they're merch to support creators I like. But if it comes to gas for my car geting something from a not billion dollar corp. is impossible. Games and game consoles are usually bought via steam or physical from the store. So I'd say it's a work in progress, as most things are.
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Canceled Prime weeks ago and done with Amazon. Unsubscribed to all US websites. We always prefered to buy locally, but would occasionally jump the fence. No more jumping. If it's not either local, made in Canada, or Product of Canada, we're doing without.
Yes do all of your purchases on the 6th and then on the 15th that'll really show them!!!
Fucking stupid ...
Amazon is just so convenient, it's hard to say no. If I need new socks, I can press one button and somebody brings it to my front door in a couple hours at a cheap price. Alternative? Order them somewhere else online and get them in a week or drive 20 minutes, deal with parking + crowds to get them a couple dollars more expensive.
It's a crap situation but I understand how Amazon got so big.
I said in another comment yesterday that Amazon is the most affordable option in my high COL area and provides the most variety. Especially groceries when I don't have time to go grocery shopping. Not to mention, I get 5% cash back on my Amazon credit card. With inflation how it is, I'm not giving it up, and I do not feel bad for it.
Is it really that bad to order things somewhere else? I live in Germany and never buy on Amazon and most things take one to three days to be delivered to me.
In the US, you can get Walmart and Target delivered to you in 3 days for a lot of stuff, but I'm not sure if ordering from them is much more ethical than Amazon.
Pretty sure there's a boycott going on at Target right now, and Walmart is probably the worst of the 3.
I completely ditched amazon - private and for my company. there are so many other options, slightly less convenient admittedly, but also slightly cheaper. works for me!
Boycotts like this do nothing because the people most willing to "participate" are people who already don't purchase from Amazon. Even if you were able to get a critical mass of people to participate for even 3 months. So what? Amazon will post 1 bad quarter and then things go back to business as usual. Nothing happens. They don't even really lose any money. At least none out of pocket, of which they have plenty for things such as this.
Amazon is a subscription model. You want to hurt them, then hurt their subscriptions. Don't boycott them, cancel Prime.
I used to buy a ton of Amazon stuff. Mostly art supplies, pet supplies, clothes, novelties I didn't need.
One day, I was browsing Reddit and I was like-- "what is this boycott thing all about?" and then I started by not ordering for one whole day!
Then one whole week!
Then one whole month!
Anyway, I ended up cancelling my Prime subscription, deleting my Amazon account completely, and cancelling my Prime Store credit card.
Then at work, for Valentine's Day, we each received a $200 dollar Amazon gift card as an employee appreciation gift.
I spoke up and said that I would prefer to receive cash or nothing at all because my values did not align with Amazon-- which caused many of my coworkers to decline theirs as well.
It was so perplexing to leadership, that they decided that going forward they are just going to give us a $200 cash bonus on our paychecks
So anyways, that's the impact one of these "pointless" boycott posts had on me.
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I disagree. Even if just YOU boycott and no one else does. The boycott does something. Even if you don't believe in it, step aside and push the train forward while it passes you. Don't create friction.
I agree with the principal of personal boycotts, though not effective in doing anything to affect the companies that you are boycotting, are necessary. But OP is right. For instance I have been boycotting Chick-fil-A for the last 10 years because I don't agree with their homophobic attitude. But it has zero effect on their bottom line because no one else boycotts them or even cares. I think the kesson is that you should not expect any kind of real outcome from your personal boycott of a company. You should just be satisfied that you are not personally supporting that company.
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Easily done, I already avoid them.
Been doing that since November. Found better, cheaper options locally.
Don't just boycott stop using it all together. I haven't used it since 2014 and have never had the need.
I figured out my new Ubiquity firewall can block Amazon and Amazon video with a few clicks. Added bonus that the tv was sending GBs of data that way, without us using the app.
Amazon also got a shit ton of power from AWS
We can only control what we can control
Just avoid everything GAFAM. They were already capitalist bitches, now they're fascist capitalist bitches.
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You guys buy from Amazon?
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!
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The problem of boycotting Amazon for over a year now is that I can't participate in collective actions like this one.
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I've already been "boycotting amazon" for a while because everything on there is complete dogshit or overpriced and I just don't feel a need to buy anything from them.
Also their website doesn't fucking work on my phone.
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Do you guys really rely on Amazon so much that one week without feels like a protest? Seriously?
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Let’s keep this up!! We all save money and they lose money!
Can't remember the last time I bought something from there to begin with.
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Ooooooh 7 whole days???? That'll teach 'em. What is this, Whale Wars?
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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.
A boycott or strike with an end date is seldom effective.
See for instance Reddit
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sounds easy considering I haven't bought anything from Amazon in years
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