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Karl Bode Oct 8, 2025

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

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𝓐𝓷𝓭𝔂𝓣𝓲𝓮𝓭𝔂𝓮 𓀤 Oct 8, 2025

Then it must be time for my periodic AmazonLESS Prime Day post:

There are some good deals to be had.

You can window-shop Amazon to find them. Then go to the company's own website to buy. They will almost always match the Prime Day deal on their own website, usually with a coupon to sweeten the deal further. I have saved hundreds of dollars this way, even compared to what I would have paid buying on Amazon during Prime Day.

I also have saved the cost of Prime membership by cancelling it.

Cut out the middleman when it's Jeff Bezos.

@karlbode.com

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cwicseolfor

@andytiedye @karlbode.com Big downside to doing this: Amazon sells ads on their own website, so "window shopping" on Amazon STILL makes them money, so ideally we should do as little of that as possible.

More philosophical, but mildly spicy counterpoint: frankly if you needed it, you wouldn't need to have Amazon or anybody else suggesting that you buy it, right? Keep lists of things you intend to buy and check prices for them intermittently at and around "sales holidays."