• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    12 days ago

    The solution would be easy if everyone would do it. Stop buying from Amazon. I’m trying to buy anything I need directly from the provider or at good old fashioned stores.

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      12 days ago

      I’ve been doing this since 2020. Just the other day I let it slip to some co-workers that I don’t have a prime membership and the shock on their faces kinda spooked me.

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      12 days ago

      I look locally for items online first, but where I am at some computer/hardware/tool items are hard to get especially with Canadian Tire turning into a terrible place to buy tools. Amazon is good for folks like my mom that doesn’t drive and is not very mobile. Amazon will delivery heavy items to her door so she doesn’t have to hobble out to a store

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      11 days ago

      It’s pretty difficult to find a variety of things without using an evil big store, but nowadays people can use a temporary card service or a paypal service to shop at a variety of smaller specialist online stores with minimal risk of fraud anyways.