#amazon sucks

[never-forget-viva-la-pluto]

Holding an indie movie release hostage and demanding that a show the creator was just an acting job in stay in the top 10 for 30 days is bad enough, but they 1) didn't get contracts to let it be released outside the usa and 2) They didn't advertise it properly and 3) They made him sign NDA's so he couldnt properly advertise it himself is some of the most heinous bullshit and i hate that this doesn't even rank in the top ten worst things Amazon has done

[foxybouquet]

Anyone else get one of these emails? Kind of put a damper on my Thanksgiving.

…a whole week later than scheduled.

This means whichever dvd I receive first will go to my contest winner from a few weeks back. Since I accidentally ordered from two different places, maybe the other will get here on time.

[rosalind-hawkins]

Bruh, the movie is included with prime, why is the "Watch Again" button taking forever to load???

[randomfusilier]

being forced to watch advertisements on a streaming service that I'm fucking paying for, coupled with the fact that they are quite literally the most disgusting vile capitalistic nonsense, kind of want to burn down civilization

[wimsiecal]

I'm so upset bro I fucking hate Prime Day 😤

I really wanted to work on things today but no my job decided to schedule me for mandatory extra time which should be illegal imo like I already work ten hour shifts 4 days a week man

[beccals]

FUCK FUCKING AMAZON PRIME I CANCELLED MY MEMBERSHIP A WHOLE MONTH AGO AND THEY JUST BILLED ME WHAT THE FUCK IM SKINT NOW WHAT IF LINKIN PARK GO ON TOUR??? WHAT THEN???? WANKERS

[mayalaen]

Amazon sucks yet again

Amazon Pay just sent out an email saying that they're going to start withholding payouts according a seller's "refund and dispute rate"

SOOOOO instead of trying to fix the issue of shitty scammers automatically being refunded because you never listen to the seller even when we have proof of customers scamming us, you're going to just withhold our payouts so you don't have to pay as many bank fees when you take our money back to give to the scammers.

As if you guys don't already KNOW which customers are frequently scamming sellers 🙄

Fuck you. Fuck you and your continued quest to squash every fucking small business out there including the ones selling through YOUR service and paying outrageous fees to do so.

Fuck PayPal too while we're at it because they side with customers almost 100% of the time too. Even with proof of scamming.

[russnightlife]

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[wizardwithaband]

The wizard aesthetic is hard cause like, 10 bucks for a potion holder to go on my belt?! I’m blasting Jeff Bezos into the Ethereal plane!

[hrtstppr95]

I know it’s slightly veering from the topic, but during the height of the pandemic, my mom’s balloon business was hired to put up some different balloon decorations within the local Amazon warehouses. In the warehouses, they had several cameras in place that detected how close two people were. They told us if the cameras detected we were within 6 feet of each other, even during set up, the system would ding the warehouse and the manager who hired us would get in trouble, as well as security.

Amazon and cameras are fucking terrifying. It’s like Big Brother.

dystopia

[bhaalsbabe]

Day 2 of trying to prove to Amazon that I'm the fucking card owner. Sent them more private info than I'm comfortable to send on the internet. Like we can see how often data breaches happen (even to big companies like Amazon), I don't want my identity stolen. WHY. DO. YOU. NEED. IT. WITH. UNREDACTED. INFORMATION.

Hate this so much, maybe it wasn't worth it to switch to amazon coins for Love Nikki purchases after all... Even if it saves me hundreds of dollars (since they don't have a set currency conversion that's adding one fifth extra for no reason other than Google being money hungry and liking to be predatory toward countries with much weaker economies)

I literally cry and have panic attacks over it (and doesn't help that I found out my ID is no longer valid and I can't get a new one during holidays), AND I CAN'T EVEN CONTACT CUSTOMER SUPPORT TO ASK WHAT THE HELL DO THEY NEED ALL OF THIS FOR AND WHAT WILL THEY DO WITH IT AFTERWARDS. I feel so powerless, I'm confused and have so many questions but there's no email I could send them to. Can't even find anything online, and what people think about this system Amazon has (other than a few old Reddit posts)

I want this to end, why do they only send the email AFTER another 24 hours, this is so damn stressful I can't 😭😭😭

[bookwormiam]

Source

Afrori Books website

Foster's Little Book Shop website

Remember everyone: shop small and don't give Amazon more money. They don't need it.

[bringingthepainsince1974]

OK!! Tumblr whore alert!!

I have a hate-hate relationship with Amazon. Seriously, every time I try to order something, my email gets banned and all sorts of crap happens... ok... I will swear. I have Tourettes. Big whoop! So, made a new rather not fantastic email with my ISP. So, yeah... I'm not going there not going to f up again. Not this time bc frankly Amazon can go straight to Tophet. :)

[ktempestbradford]

BACK THIIIISSSS! I'm definitely getting this book when it comes out because I am real tired of the enshittification of the Internet and social media.

Also, if you don't already know about the fantasticness that is Libro.fm for audiobooks, check it out! (ps - that is my affiliate link)

They just announced that they're selling audiobooks internationally now, and they always support indie booksellers when you buy.

And finally: Back this Kickstarter!

Kickstarting a book to end enshittification, because Amazon will not carry it

My next book is The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation: it’s a Big Tech disassembly manual that explains how to disenshittify the web and bring back the old good internet. The hardcover comes from Verso on Sept 5, but the audiobook comes from me — because Amazon refuses to sell my audio:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/the-internet-con-how-to-seize-the-means-of-computation

Amazon owns Audible, the monopoly audiobook platform that controls >90% of the audio market. They require mandatory DRM for every book sold, locking those books forever to Amazon’s monopoly platform. If you break up with Amazon, you have to throw away your entire audiobook library.

That’s a hell of a lot of leverage to hand to any company, let alone a rapacious monopoly that ran a program targeting small publishers called “Project Gazelle,” where execs were ordered to attack indie publishers “the way a cheetah would pursue a sickly gazelle”:

https://www.businessinsider.com/sadistic-amazon-treated-book-sellers-the-way-a-cheetah-would-pursue-a-sickly-gazelle-2013-10

Keep reading

[noctomania]

Today i learned Jeff Bezos owns Washington Post

Fuck bezos

[morally-grey-variant]

I promise I'm working on more parts of Love Is A Dagger! My partner just finished graduate school this week and we're moving next week and I still have to work my part-time job since my writing income is Doo Doo© compared to what it was before ãmazøn terminated my account last year, so I'm up to my eyeballs in ~stress~ and I want nothing more than to write soft and angsty and progressively more horny Loki fic but life is too much atm