More than 200,000 people had canceled their digital subscriptions by midday Monday, according to two people at the paper with knowledge of internal matters. Not all cancellations take effect immediately. Still, the figure represents about 8% of the paper’s paid circulation of 2.5 million subscribers, which includes print as well. The number of cancellations continued to grow Monday afternoon.
bezos would learn his lesson if his actual life was in danger and not just his money. people will have to get serious if they want to send a message.
People need to cancel Amazon prime instead
I’ll be doing that soon enough…
Same just gotta do this last dog food order…
I have a funny feeling Jeff doesn’t own the paper for the money.
I think Elon mismanaged Twitter tremendously but a very clear “this is my toy and I’ll break it if i want” message was sent and a very dangerous message it was. Gives me the same vibe. Bezos doesn’t need to own it but he does and he’ll do what he pleases.
Wait until he rebrand it “y”.
Y would I buy from Y?
I’m glad this happens in a world where newspapers endorse candidates, but I also don’t get why newspapers are allowed to endorse candidates in the first place. I guess that is the least of our concerns when you look at media bias, but still…
Newspapers are allowed to endorse candidates because the first amendment protects free speech. While I may agree with you that endorsements and news media stumping for ANY candidate is problematic and reeks of propaganda, it is, for better or worse, protected by the constitution.
I mean when the choice is either facism or democracy, I’d assume being unbiased is a little hard. After all, the nazis did attack the press first to instill propaganda.
Finally got around to canceling my Prime membership. I’ve been relying on Amazon to get all the shit I can’t buy in person, but I’ll figure out some other way to get those.
You’re probably out of luck. I’ve been trying to avoid amazon for two years but all the other options suck. I’m constantly chasing missing orders and returning items because they’re just not as described.
Amazon revolutionised the customer experience and apparently nobody else has even bothered to try and mirror their formula.
That’s simply not true anymore.
We recently got straight-up scammed on Amazon by a third-party seller on Amazon, and they won’t do jack about it. They said it’s between us and the third party.
I’m done with their bullshit. They’re nothing but an expensive front page for alibaba drop-shippers these days.
If it was just AliBaba drop shippers it would probably be better, but rather than drop-shipping they’re basically a US based warehouse and distributor for drop-shippers to be able to sell their garbage with 2-day shipping.
Lots of it doesn’t even go through Amazon warehouses these days.
Everything they sell is on eBay from private sellers and importers.
You could say the reviews are a plus but some products are all propelled by bot reviews and Amazon featuring items anyway, so what good is it, really?
I’m back to square 1 with the internet of looking up item reviews on small forum posts and word of mouth since Amazon has abandoned the one thing it had useful to me, peer-review.
eBay also tends to have free shipping too without having to pay for prime
Give Walmart.com a shot, you’ll be shocked how much easier it is to use than Amazon actually.
One evil billionaire for another, but the actual online experience is modern platform unlike Amazon which looks like it was made in 1998
Their delivery range is quite limited.
I am every day thankful of mercadolibre here where I live, it’s the absolute best, Amazon can’t even come close
I’ve ordered 3-4 things from Amazon in my entire life. It’s really not hard to ditch if you grew up in a time before Amazon. I’m 39, I can go to the store.
apparently nobody else has even bothered to try and mirror their formula.
It isn’t that no one has tried, but Amazon has several anticompetitive policies in place that make it virtually impossible for anyone to compete with them.
4 years in and the only problem I’ve had is when a retailer uses FBA and Amazon ends up delivering it. It is not that hard, use eBay (avoid Amazon dropshippers by not buying things with free expedited shipping and free returns). I have not struggled whatsoever it just takes more time and is often cheaper. Especially with fewer impulse purchases.
Part of why they can absorb so many returns, unfortunately, is because of their sheer scale of business.
Yeah unfortunately I live in a major city and every other retailer has trash delivery that costs an arm and a leg. I tried buying a few items from a store in my province, and shipping the items was more than the cost of the items. Even hot topic, I ordered a couple of t-shirts and a jacket and they wanted $50 for shipping across the city to me
Same here. I’ve conceited that I’m not gonna pay for prime and all other subscriptions but fuck me actually not using it in the UK is impossible, all the independent retailers are long gone and if they somehow exist they are just dog shit options through and through.
What do you predict Turnout being this year? 2020 was 65.9% of the VEP(Voting Eligable Population). The lowest in the internet era was 2012 at 58%. Average is 2004 and 2016 at 60.1 and 59.3 each, 2008 was the previous high at 61.1
That would be an interesting pool to join in.
It’s a million Venn diagrams of a million different problems. It’s hard to even guess what ones would be more significant.
You’ve got his impending jail time if he doesn’t make it in. That’s likely going to activate a bunch. You’ve got the incels and misogynists. I’d say you’d have a pretty decent percent of the most ardent Gaza supporters, and certainly some of them will go third party, But knowing that if Trump makes it in he will absolutely throw as much support as possible to netanyahu… They’re in an absolutely miserable situation but I don’t know that they would be in a hurry to make it worse.
Of course on the other side you’ve got Cheeto Jesus saying he’s going to be dictator on day one, He’s going to prosecute an imprison other people he’s threatened donors. He’s patronized Hitler’s and Hitler’s staff. He’s pretty much insulted and activated everybody on the other side to be scared to fucking death that he’s going to make it in. I have to think that all counts to activate us. I have to think that all the rambling and incoherent speech he’s giving is feeling to activate them at least a little bit on the other side.
But the poles, their poles. I was behind a fuck nut yesterday with a Trump 2024 make liberals cry again bumper sticker. I’ve never wanted to get out of my car and scratch wahhhh snowflake on some dick heads tailgate so much
It’s also good to note 2008 being second highest was hard carried by Obama, McCain was not pulling record numbers. 2020 was both parties breaking their all time records(though proportionally they both fell a bit short of 2008 Obama). Personally I smell 2008 style numbers. Post-COVID means less people free that day and a bit less wall to wall election exposure, and while Harris is more charismatic than Biden she’s not Obama(Obama wasn’t even supposed to be picked in 2008, but he came in so hard and strong they gave him a shot and he mauled Hillary. Kamala wasn’t fighting her way through a primary she was never supposed to win in a trial by fire like Obama).
Also states have shifted in one way or another. Nevada was the bluest state in 2016 and 2020, only swing state to go blue both times, only one of the modern swing states Hillary held(albeit in 2016 Virginia and New Hampshire and New Mexico were considered Swing States too). This year it’s looking to be a lot more red…hopefully…if it’s still the bluest state that’s game over already. Abortion doesn’t sell well there, state is more male, and it’s mostly older so the women there aren’t super passionate. That and they got hit by COVID and Inflation really really badly and No Tax on Tips is popular. Meanwhile Wisconsin(traditionally the reddest of the rust belt) is being reigned in by Tim Walz to a degree and has been the bluest at several points while Michigan(the bluest state Trump won in 2016) is slipping a bit due to Arab voters.
Calling it being around 2008 Levels, but not 2020 level.
Something darkly funny to me is all the people who work there whose job it is to grow subscribers seeing their last three years of hard work flushed down the drain on the whims of the owner.
I’d love to sit in on performance reviews for Q4’s end.
I’ve been there. It sucks sooooooooo much. Especially if you’ve made family sacrifices (missing events etc.) to travel to get those deals closed - just to see them just evaporate in a whim.
That’s why I got out of Tech Sales and into management.
To anyone unsubscribing: Remember to subscribe somewhere else instead. If not you’re just helping Bezos achieve his goal of the death of journalism.
@ProPublica@newsie.social is one good alternative.
As others have said, if you want to hurt Bezos, target Amazon.
Most of the web runs on AWS good luck avoiding Amazon
Just about a third anyhow. Remember the great fiasco where an engineer was turning off one server and mistakenly turned them alll off and Facebbok etc was down for 6 hours? Like a goddamn dream… a wonderful place.
Like setting fire to the Amazon and stuff?
As a species we’re clearly doing our very best
404 media seems nice
This was the straw that finally got my wife to agree to let me cancel prime. I wanted to as soon as add were added to video. Sadly it auto renewed on the 10th of Oct :(
This exact thing happened to me. I cancelled anyway and they refunded most of the subscription fee. Just do it. Wish i could have told them why I was cancelling.
My favorite news source is Democracy Now
The link’s not working
The link is for a Mastodon account:
And here’s their site: https://www.propublica.org/
Some reasons I think they’re neat:
- They broke the Justice Thomas corruption scandal
- Generally high level investigative journalism
- They’re free and donation based, not subscription based
- No bullshit, just journalism
- They take an active interest in the Fediverse - it seems they’re willing to meet me where I am.
Al Jazeera for me, bby
It would hurt this sociopath Bezos a lot more if people also canceled Amazon services en mass
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Got a substitute?
No?
…
…I stopped using Amazon at all about a year and a half ago. It’s not that fucking hard. Do you know how many places want to sell you shit?
Literally all of them.
There are thousands of online stores, not to mention brick and mortar where you can buy everything you need.
This question shows you’re either a troll or a moron.
Have you got a substitute for… A place to buy stuff? No not a single substitute? You really can’t think of any vendor other than Amazon? Be better
Great argument. How about buy your shit from actual stores, whether online or brick and mortar. Believe it or not, we actually managed to get by for millennia without amazon
MORE FUNDING FOR USPS! FUCK CORPOS!
A lot of those stores actually closed down because of Amazon.
Many that offer specialized equipment are located in locations that are far or difficult to access and/or have opening hours that are the same as my work hours.
I do my best to buy local and from physical shops, but sometimes nobody had what you’re looking for and Amazon can get it to your door in 24 hours.
I hate the company but fuck is it practical. They need a serious competitor but nobody wants to even try with the amount of money Bezos got.
Use Amazon, only when you have no other option.
Not “no other option with 1 day shipping”
Not “no other option that delivers to my door”
Not “no other option that doesn’t cost $10 more”
That’s what I try to do at best at possible.
also the amazon truck drives by my house every day anyway. it’s far more efficient for them to drop off another package on their route than me making a special trip to a physical store.
But I mean we all get why this is wrong. It’s becoming a major monopoly. And that’s not good.
This is why trust busting is supposed to exist.
“becoming” yeah
I bought some 3D printing filament direct from the manufacturer. It got shipped to me by… Amazon. From an Amazon warehouse. I guess that’s how they do fulfillment. 🤷♂️
Huh. In my large city I have difficulty finding things in brick and mortar stores. Want a silicone tray for your air fryer? Walmart’s website says they have them, but when you call the stores, they confirm they absolutely do not. Hobby lobby has it for 5x the price. No local stores come up as stocking them period, None other listed locally. I have this issue quite commonly. Maternity clothes sections just don’t exist locally with any variety or consistency with sizes. Baby necessities, toys, and clothing is truly hit or miss in stores. You drive to the one store you think will have what you need and they closed two weeks ago.
I don’t live in the boonies. If you live in the US, you’ve heard of my city. I am constantly running into the issue that things are only available online, and then Amazon is always the quickest shipping, and almost always the least expensive.
Fuck bezos and screw Amazon, but unless you’re able to wait a week or three for everything you need, you don’t have any good substitutes. I’d love to run out and buy it same day, but it’s just not reliable to go to the store anymore.
I just bought a bunch of onesies and toddler clothes directly from Carter’s and the Children’s Place. They do seasonal sales and loyalty points so I actually got a better deal than on Amazon. Got the packages within 5 days each. I bought diapers from Target, they came in two days and I got a $20 giftcard as part of the deal. Next time you need something, try going directly to the brand’s website, or literally any other retailer. Amazon spams search results but they aren’t the only store on the internet.
I wish I could. Most of the stuff I buy from Amazon I can’t find anywhere else. They’ve become the Walmart of online stores and driven everything else out of business. He’ll even Walmart doesn’t have what I want 99% of the time. It sucks. I hate contributing to Wish version Lex Luther …
Such as?
I’m delighted to hear that you can afford the prices of goods from modern brick and mortar stores. What about us 99% though?
You are not a serious person
Idk wtf stores you’re going to, but prices are very similar between online and B&M, and where it’s not, I haven’t been to a store in years that won’t price match.
To answer your question, the 99% of you just need to think about it for a second before parroting some dumbass take.
This cannot be true unless the price of commercial retail real estate where you live is next to literally $0. I have never heard of a store, online, nevermind B&M, price-matching Amazon because this is economically impossible.
But idk, I’m not American. In the UK we basically don’t have any actual stores anymore for anything other than food and/or clothes, and they are closed after 5PM, so good luck getting there just to pay 5x the price or sell a kidney for delivery fees.
I’m the US many stores like Best Buy and Home Depot will price match Amazon.
AWS is the big one. And they are indeed somewhat unique in the scale and flexibility that they offer. You could leave them, but then you have to build those services and data centers yourself.
AWS is unique in its high profit margins. Have you explored the world of non-cloud hosting? It’s cheap as!
They literally aren’t unique at all. Those services are offered by plenty of competitors.
The only true competitor is GCP, and Google is trash company too.
At better prices, with better service and APIs.
It’s like people enjoy the abuse? 🤷♂️
gcp, azure, hetzner, digitalocean, linode…
Google’s as bad as Amazon.
100% agreed. Azure too. Honestly Hetzner as well, to a lesser extent
You could pay someone else who wants to create them?
For prime video, just pirate whatever is their “must watch” show or movie. For online shopping, just stop being a spoiled bitch who can’t live with 2 day shipping. Google still works,
something you want to buy -amazon.comJust not using Amazon? Somehow I’ve managed to survive without needing to buy anything off Amazon in over a decade. How badly do you need to buy random shit online that you can just shrug at the human rights violation that is Amazon?
Exactly! I also haven’t bought more than ten items from Walmart in the last fifteen years.
It can cost a little more, and requires patience, but I can think of very few times I’ve actually needed (versus wanted) some item before I could get it not via Amazon or Walmart. Even with the added expense for some individual items I’d wager I’ve spent less overall since it makes impulse purchases easier to avoid.
It’s probably not amounting to much in the way of resisting these mega corps, but it isn’t as difficult as some folks imagine.
Are there hundreds of alternatives to online shopping on Amazon?
The same with logistics. Surely there are MANY delivery companies?
What about Amazon would you miss?
Sure,
Just live with things taking like 2-5 days instead of 1-2
bhphotovideo has been very good to me
Second this… If they have it available, they’ve been great to me.
Additional to backfill more “basics”, target is at least less crap than Bezos.
Agreed. Target isn’t perfect (no corpo is) but I buy from them still
I think if you had just left it at “Got a substitute?” and left off the snark you wouldn’t be downvoted into oblivion. I’ll try to give you my honest take. It’s a fair question. Amazon is a really nice service. I was a prime member for many years. About 3 years ago I cancelled because: the price kept going up, the usability of the site keeps getting worse, (alphabet soup pop up “brands” poisoning search results) and the customer service has gotten worse.
My process now is, search for what I want with one or more search engines, or, a website with reviews I trust like wirecutter, seriouseats, rtings, gamersnexus, etc. Once I decide on the item, see if the manufacturer sells it direct. Then, I price compare using a google shopping search. If Amazon comes in at MUCH cheaper than everyone else, I might still buy from them. If it’s close, especially if it’s a small business, I try to go more direct. If your cart is over USD $35, shipping is still free but slower. If I have smaller things less than $35, I sit on them and wait until I need enough to put me over or stock up on basics like garbage bags. If I need something fast and Amazon is the only place to get it, I can still pay for shipping several times a year and spend less than I would on the prime subscription. I typically only need to pay for shipping once or twice a year.
You can make Amazon compete and behave better without completely cutting them out of your life. Cancel prime, and shop around.
I’m not aware of being downvoted into oblivion, but I have a massive block list, so that might be why.
I wonder why you would need that?
Buy less stuff?
Yep, for just about everything you get on Amazon there are alternatives. You just go to the supplier that sells the thing you need instead. Amazon hasn’t had real 2 day shipping in a long time. If you really need that “everything store” experience, Ebay, Target and Walmart all have decent online marketplaces but might as well use the smaller stores. What’s keeping you on Amazon? It sure as hell isn’t its search, and tons of sites offer free, fast shipping. I have to assume it’s habit.
Maybe this is true in the US, but in the UK the difference in shipping is Amazon same-day or at the very latest 1-day for free, or easily £5.99+ for something between a week and never because they use the most cost-cutting human slavery looking ass parcel carriers. That’s before the fact most things just are flat-out not available outside of Amazon, and if they are, cost 5x.
I happily pay more for local, and I basically bought clothes only on Etsy for quite some time despite being scammed a number of times, but that’s crashed too now and is impossible to use, and even before there’s no persuasive economical argument to make.
Most suppliers only sell directly on Amazon, or also on AliExpress if it’s chinese made stuff, but that in itself is a very different beast because shipping from there is in the month+ range.
I am confused by people’s shopping habits. How often are you buying online and what is it?
Groceries and pharmacy are all local. Clothes are a local boutique (I don’t buy clothes more than one or twice a year and I like to try things on and buy quality items). Shoes are from a local redwing store that I’ve been wearing for over 8 years. Computer parts I do tend to buy online, but I’d never risk buying from Amazon. I typically buy from b&h, cdw, or directly from the manufacturer.
Vape supplies are 5x the price on the street compared to Amazon, I buy from some shady online retailer instead but it also takes much longer.
For pharmacy stuff things I need are impossible to get in any pharmacy, even as I have it on prescription and should be able to get it for free in the UK, in practice it’s just never in stock, online pharmacies require bizarre kafka-esque labyrintha of consultations ans approvals, and one that I was recommended by my gf that she uses tried to selectively scam me by asking for.my card details over the phone, including CVC for the excuse that it was some third party supplier, meanwhile on Amazon it can be delivered the same day for a pretty decent price.
For computer parts in 99% of cases Amazon is much much cheaper. Any hobby stuff like music gear all comes from Amazon because it’s much more expensive with the manufacturer (if even available directly) nevermind retailers, nevermind in store IRL. Print books (can’t stand reading electronic copies) and especially manga are almost never available outside of Amazon, where again it’s all 1DD.
I’m in the top 20% earners in the UK so I can somewhat afford IKEA as long as I use it for many years, but for most there’s no real alternative to Amazon price-wise despite the poor quality. Same goes for kitchenware, options in stores are far too limited, e.g. plate drying racks were all too big or too small unless I got the one I got from Amazon.
Clothing varies, if I only ever go with brands I already know and take days off to actually be able to visit the stores before they all close at 5PM, maybe, but otherwise the best way to buy any brand of clothing is prime wardrobe’s try before you buy thing if you filter to legit brands only.
There’s just no real alternatives, even if you pay more, you wait more, you choose worse options, sooner or later you just run into a wall because those businesses that used to sell this stuff were gone by the 2010s tops.
What? There is no need for a substitute. The concept is insanity. Just stop being a consoomer ffs
We don’t all live in mom’s basement playing [insert game] on a crusty Toshiba satellite here with every whim catered to.
Things break, things are needed, people live their lives. I don’t buy much, but when I need something there are rarely any alternatives to Amazon.
Sure buddy, if that makes you feel better.
Thats just not true anywhere in europe. If you live in NA, then my condolences. Idk how it is in south america but probably depends on the country.
I’m in the USA and it’s totally easy not to use Amazon. The first step is buying less shit though and people are pretty addicted to buying crap they don’t need.
Can you give us examples?
Plenty of alternatives, if you’re willing to look. Books? Try the library. Ebooks? Kobo. Audiobooks? Libro.fm Other products? Shop local (if you still can) otherwise, use Google to find another site that sells shit.
Don’t most brick and mortar stores also have websites that deliver? Just think of what store might sell what you’re lookng for and buy it from them or at least compare prices.
Ebay
I’ve used ebay before. Full of scammers. No thanks.
so is amazon
Seriously, feels like a crapshoot if I’m actually getting a quality product or garbage that falls apart. Doesn’t help that you can’t trust the reviews, fake reviews aside it feels like every other item tries to bribe you with a gift card for a 5-star review.
Open box shit sold as new, same/next/2 day deliveries getting delayed more often than not, counterfeits, genuinely dangerously unsafe products, a supply chain full of exhausted and burned out workers… Yeah it’s all so fucked. I can only hope their retail business collapses as it’s increasingly indistinguishable from aliexpress or ebay
What? What country do you live in where Amazon has downright scams on it? Sure you might get something that’s a bit dodgy but if you do your due diligence you can avoid it. With eBay not so much where most products live in at most the paralegal grey area space.
USA
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This got reported, but its a joke, I think people just didn’t get it- including me. Because its a weird joke.
Downvoters: “I hate you but you’re right.”
Did you read any of the responses?
There’s a dozen responses stating why the person is wrong.
WaPo - “Democracy dies in darkness”
Bezos - “I can deliver darkness to everyone in America in 2 days or less”
“We endorse Democrats! REJOICE!!!”
“We want to stay neutral! BURN THEM ALIVE!”
Can’t make this shit up…
WaPo editors wanted to endorse Harris.
Bezos, who is not an editor, forced them to remain neutral.
That’s a problem. People don’t subscribe to WaPo because they want to read Bezos’s thoughts.
Editors wish to use their paper to endorse a candidate, the owner of the paper does not want them to do that so their endorsement is not written. What’s the issue here?
A good newspaper has an independent editors.
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I think you commented on the wrong post.
yep
The number of cancellations continued to grow Monday afternoon.
200,000 so far
I don’t see 200,000 trumptards rushing in to pick up the slack.
They’re already mortgaging their houses to buy Trump NFTs.
Holy shit, that number is huge, in terms of their paid subscribers.
Man, Trump is such a bad businessman that he kills other people’s companies as well.
It looks like Trump owns Bezos.
Race is on to be the worlds first Trillionaire. So many people to shit on to get that high score and only one person will help them get there.
Three of the top 10 viewed stories on the Post’s website Sunday were articles written by Post staffers outraged by Bezos’ decision. The top one was humor columnist Alexandra Petri’s piece, headlined, “It has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president.”
