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Georgiann BaldinoVote with your wallet, order directly from manufacturers, or buy from local shops in your town.
#Boycott other sources.
#Boycott other sources.
Andrés Ortiz Massó 🐌🌍#Boycott Google too, avoid using the "Google" verb, and use "search" instead.
Use other search engines.
CyBoycotts don't work. But yeah, go shop at the company's website, and save everyone some money! This is only recently possible! Before 2019, vendors were contractually obliged by Amazon to fix their prices so there would be no discount.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/11/18260700/amazon-anti-competitive-pricing-agreements-3rd-party-sellers-end
A few years ago, regulators in Germany and Great Britain investigated this practice and it was dropped in Europe. The threat of regulation or impending investigations might be at fault for causing Amazon to drop MFNs in the United States as well.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/11/18260700/amazon-anti-competitive-pricing-agreements-3rd-party-sellers-end
A few years ago, regulators in Germany and Great Britain investigated this practice and it was dropped in Europe. The threat of regulation or impending investigations might be at fault for causing Amazon to drop MFNs in the United States as well.
Amazon silently ends controversial pricing agreements with sellers
Price parity agreements, or most-favored nations clauses (MFNs), were formerly used by Amazon in agreements with third-party sellers to ensure that people selling products on the platform did not sell the same products for cheaper elsewhere.
Robot Diver 🌊🌬️🍃🌿🌸🌱🌱🌱Except when they don't which really sucks. So many small businesses have transitioned to amazon only sales in the last few years
Ryan Walmsley@obtener I love the idea of supporting local shops, but the moment you actually want anything none of them ever stock stuff if it's remotely a "specalist" category.
As for ordering direct, in many cases usually ends up more expensive due to them being international. Or they then just use FBA anyway.
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK@Ryanteck @obtener I've had some luck going off Amazon making a saving with car detailing supplies and telecoms/networking equipment, but with the car detailing stuff the local suppliers can't match Amazon for delivery time (and these are Dodo Juice and Ricsar which are literally just down the road in Essex - although this isn't a problem as I only do detailing at weekends). To be fair NetXL (for the IT equipment) do have reliable next day delivery..
@vfrmedia @obtener For car detailing stuff I usually try to either go to Halfords or Euro Car Parts if I need it semi same day. Or order in bulk in advanced.
I guess I'm thinking more computer parts and electronics which would have been Maplin or olden days PC World. But with Maplin being dead and Currys not even stocking a single component at my local store makes it tricky.
Scan is pretty decent for some bits, but Amazon still wins on some prices.
Kai, sounds like the sky@obtener pretty much all of this is not true.
Amazon contractually requires all it's sellers to sell at amazon at the same price as they do elsewhere.
If a company sells at amazon and at their own website at the same time, they'll sell with the same 25% "margin" on their site too to match amazon listing price