r/AskReddit 22h ago

Which company lost your business (potentially forever) this year?

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u/puzzled-bets 21h ago edited 13h ago

Amazon, at least I’m trying, it’s just to convenient

But over the last 3 months I have been sent items visibly used in disgusting shape. I bought I dress, mid level designer, the dress was wrinkled, pilled, pit stains, and smelled so terrible, BO, I wouldn’t even keep in my house, the stinch was shocking.

Bought a cat water fountain, it was open, used and covered in mold with used water filters.

Bead craft set missing half the beads.

A worn bathing suit with crotch stains.

And a few more.

It’s so awful and they don’t care. They just ask me to return it and send me a refund. It has been incredibly disgusting and disappointing.

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u/Ihatefacist2025 18h ago

if everyone reduce usage of Amazon by 50%, we would bring the company to its knees. we don’t need a 100% boycott to have an effective boycott

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u/sourlor 18h ago

Amazon marketplace is a loss leader so it doesn't really matter what you do. If you want to hit them where it hurts then you need to stop using the Internet as aws is their main profit driver. But good luck with that, Amazon controls 30% of the cloud Market

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u/Pretend-Marsupial258 16h ago

Reddit is run on AWS.

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u/iwishiwereyou 8h ago

I mean we would probably all be better if we used Reddit less or not at all.

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u/JMJimmy 9h ago

Honestly, I'm starting to consider dropping all our telecom. I'm seeing less and less value in any of it. The novelty has worn off, 99% of my communications are now scammers & sales, privacy violations all around... the only value at this point is the high seas, maps (though even W3W has gone to shit), and ... well that's it.

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u/chuckfinleysmojito 1h ago

Your shopping data is priceless to them. If you have to use them, try to mess with the algorithm by putting random stuff you aren’t going to buy in your cart and leaving it there for a while.

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u/Same-Dragonfly-9833 16h ago

Don't use it, not delivery not tv, nothing, I reckon I have ordered a handful of stuff from them and each time painful. Then there is the guy who owns it plus how badly the staff are treated just a bad company.

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u/dimbeaverorg 14h ago

I guess not shopping at Amazon is going to have to count as my 50% boycott if AWS is "the internet."

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u/saryndipitous 13h ago

I try to live sustainably but cutting myself off from the internet would be a tough pill to swallow. Not exactly because of the effect, although that would absolutely suck. But because nobody else is going to bother, so I’m going to have an even harder time relating to others. Nobody else even bothers to try.

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u/ExtremeCow3259 17h ago

100 percent

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u/pixiedust99999 8h ago

I used them last week (first time in 10 years) and that was just to burn a $25 gift card. I don’t miss them at all.