Amazon gives non-Prime members free shipping at $35 or more of eligible items. Instead of simply letting users get the product with free shipping, they’ve added a discount that prices it exactly one cent below the $35 limit, while only subsidizing the price with $3.38, which is about half of what they’ll then charge you for shipping.
> why does this large conglomerate mega corp not have any ethical small business competition
you need to reality check yourself, and either pay more for shipping, or just accept that sometimes things arrive a little bit slower than convenient. If you have amazon prime you already know about this.
IDK why people expect services that are entirely separate and different to be the exact same, it’s like they’ve never gone outside before.
As for your ethical reflection into my purchases, i do not care, as i am anti humanist. I simply do not have a leg in the race, whether i die or not is irrelevant. As for my phone, i didn’t pay any money for it, it was free. And my computer, or computers, are built by me, from hardware that i bought, with my own money.
With the exception of my thinkpad collection (entirely secondhand) most of that hardware has been purchased new, as that is generally how people buy computer hardware.
Also to be fully transparent, i don’t believe i ever stated that i am an ethical consumer (i am in some aspects, i just don’t buy very many things, especially useless things, i’m a utilitarian) but for the things i do buy, i don’t spend much time thinking about it for the aforementioned reasons.
Who cares if it was your own money? We’re talking about the ethical sourcing of things you use. You haven’t said a single brand in either of your comments and it’s obvious why.
if we’re talking branding, AMD, EVGA, asus, and a handful of other similar companies. You could argue they’re unethical if you wanted, but again, i’m literally not an ethical consumer. And also, there are no alternatives.
Buying things used/second hand subverts the ethical consumption problem from the get go. So.
Then shut the fuck up if you won’t even practice what you’re judging people for Jfc. You don’t have to comment. You don’t have to grace us with whatever dumps out of your smooth brain when you smash your face against the keyboard. It’s ok to lurk and just shut up.
Bye dude
im not judging you for being incapable of using websites that dont start with amazon, and end in .com, you can do whatever you want, im just pointing out that you have a very silly opinion of how online retailing works.
yeah but then i miss interactions like this one.