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Did it work?

A whole 7 days??? Gosh gee willakers!!! You think people can uphold a boycott a whole 7 days???

Look. Boycotts are effective, but you gotta be stubborn. It's gotta be "boycott from now on" with no end date.

Otherwise, it'll just look like normal fluctuations in their business.

"Oh, this week was slightly down....ah, but then it stopped. We're good!"

But if you boycott forever, then their numbers continuously go down. And if you get other people boycotting, those numbers go down faster.

THAT'S how you make an impact.

Americans really dont know how to protest...

Do you guys really rely on Amazon so much that one week without feels like a protest? Seriously?

LOL, I'm boycotting Amazon since 2007, at least. Good luck!

Or how about you just stop buying from that cancerous blight on our society altogether?

Would be better to plan this a little farther out but I am already on a permanent boycott so I support this obviously.

A boycott or strike with an end date is seldom effective.

See for instance Reddit

Is this a joke? Like 2k people on fedi don't buy anything from Amazon for a week?

These "economic blackout"s are completely futile. Especially if they only target a single service, or if they target a service as big as Amazon. If this blackout is for everything Amazon operates, you can't use Twitch, or Fire TV, or Prime Video, or Fire devices, or Kindles, or any website that is run with AWS. You think normies are going to sacrifice all of that ease of use for a week, and even if in some alternate dimension they have any self control over their consumption, they'll just go back to using Amazon after this protest is over.

Amazon will survive for 7 days. What about people all around the world that quite frankly don't give a fuck about uspol? What about subscriptions? Invincible 3x8 comes out in this time period, so nobody will watch it? People will stop using a third of the Internet, their streaming slop devices, their e-celeb propaganda outlets? It simply won't happen.

These blackouts are an immature way to "break the system, man". They completely ignore the reasons why normies go to the slop mill in the first place. The general population has 0 self control over their spending. They will consume, and consume, and consume, until they die.

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!

This is great and all, but here's a bonus challenge: don't use Amazon ever fucking again!

Do it and you're cool!! Even though I haven't used it in awhile, I have the app downloaded. I'm going to uninstall it as soon as I post this comment.

That's not a boycott. That's waiting until payday to shop.

There needs to be a succinct way to say "Never shop Amazon again if possible. If you absolutely have no other option, don't do it March 7-14."

Those fuckers stole my digital comics library. I already stopped using Twitch and I havent bought their shitty and useless Chinese made electronics in years. Fuck Nazis, fuck Amazon, fuck Google, Fuck Trump, Fuck Musk, Fuck America! (the last part I take away when you vote the Orange Fuck Face away!)

Just delete your account already.

I week long boycott will do nothing. If that is the most you are prepared to inconvenience yourself to send a message, then just give up now.

I boycott Amazon years ago already, when a warehouse of people died because employees were told that the government's tornado warning was just hyperbole.

Amazon is an evil company that treats its workers like garbage, and practices some of the most vile anti-union practices.

I cancelled my Amazon Prime account and never bought a single item through Amazon anymore. I don't buy anything from Temu either, by the way.

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.

Way ahead. I deleted my Amazon 😉

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

That’s so stupid. Boycott only works if it’s indefinite, because you want the company to try to win you back.

If you say that you are coming back, what exactly are you expecting to happen? They’ll change nothing because you already said that you are coming back

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.

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

You guys buy from Amazon?

Haven’t used Amazon for 1.5 years already

I have been boycotting them for the last 7 years. I'll gladly participate with this one for: indefinitely

Ooooooh 7 whole days???? That'll teach 'em. What is this, Whale Wars?

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.

How exactly will this disrupt the system?

Wouldn't it be easier to disrupt the system by—I don't know—something old & boring like asking everyone to clean out/close their bank accounts at the same time to cause a run on banks?

Where do people come up with these weaker ideas? Trump's inanity might disrupt the economy more than these efforts.

I guess it’s a good thing that I’ve always been a minimalist. These things don’t really impact me. I very rarely buy stuff.

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.

Can't remember the last time I bought something from there to begin with.

Already canceled my Prime subscription renewal due to Bezos’ prior shenanigans. Unfortunately, still have it until June. But, I don’t plan to use any of it.

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.

Even people that use Amazon surely are most likely to not buy stuff in any typical week? I just stopped using it.

Hey I'm participating for a few years now and I didn't even know it.

I moved on from Amazon to local after the 28th.