Orange Gentleman
VeeGuys... it's working!
Ellis C. A. Arcwolf (Author)Hehe. 💙
As a person who does not often participate in the market these days, I appreciate those of you who do for doing it so beautifully. :D
Wandering HermitYeah. I went grocery shopping on Black Friday. In a Walmart (I'm rural, that's all there is) It wasn't any busier than any normal Friday.
1. It's working
2. The crash is coming
@wanderinghermit 👍️yup
DonCC@VeroniqueB99
fuq Amazon and that baldass bezos
fuq Amazon and that baldass bezos
Arthur van der Harg@VeroniqueB99 That is some positive feedback. But not the good kind. Those Amazon workers will have less money to spend for Christmas gifts. And possibly also the employees and owners of the businesses selling through Amazon.
@iveyline@VeroniqueB99 I sense more and more people are boycotting Amazon.
David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)There are good reasons to boycott Amazon, but there are also good reasons to simply not use them.
About 15 years ago, I bought some outside furniture from Amazon. I missed when I ordered it that it was from a Marketplace seller. After they arrived, I searched for the seller and found that they sold the same thing through their own store front for 20% less.
After that, any time I was about to buy something on Amazon, I searched for the name of the seller and / or the precise product model, and found it cheaper elsewhere.
It amused me for a while to use Amazon in the same way that Amazon used brick-and-mortar stores: a place you go to browse, but then buy elsewhere. But then their search got really bad and I stopped using them for even that.
Periodically, a web search shows Amazon as a seller for something I want. Very occasionally (maybe once per year?) they're either the only seller or the cheapest, but most of the time they're not the cheapest.
Just getting into the habit of searching elsewhere saves a load of money.
And this is why I get a bit annoyed with the 'I'm poor, I can't afford to boycott Amazon' narrative: I was avoiding Amazon to save money long before I was avoiding them for ethical reasons.
an actual bus
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Manfred@david_chisnall @Iveyline @VeroniqueB99 latest when you ask the price ... you get a better one! Fuck off the one click order
Callisto@VeroniqueB99 Besides there being no alt text, that's sadly just not true. I was hoping not to be *this* disappointed.
Simon EI3JDB@callisto @VeroniqueB99 All that says about Amazon is that more customers are using their AI tool.
Shopify seemed to be the big winners.
It is possible for sales to be booming overall while one company sees a fall. Look at EV sales in Europe, for example.
FirekeeperDonhmmm...
I guess humanity is a loss, then. Guess I'll go hiking and enjoy the limited biosphere we have while we've got it.
johan@VeroniqueB99 It’s working cause people are genuinely poor now? I’m not sure how successful that actually is 😬
@VeroniqueB99 BOYCOTT DELL TOO.
Neil E. Hodges
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Michael Keukert@VeroniqueB99 Totally unrelated sidenote: I'd like to see that cole mine 
@VeroniqueB99 I used to buy 35mm film there. Now I've found vendors on ebay selling similar stock, some at a discount. Screw Amazon.
Screw ebay too, but, way she goes, I guess.
WooShell@VeroniqueB99 oh, I can assure you that people are still buying, but not at Amazon.. it has finally transpired to the public that their "deals" are just artificially inflated prices a week earlier just so they can "reduce" them during the sale. The few things that are really discounted compared to the average price of the previous months are few and far between.
All thanks to price watching websites and services.
All thanks to price watching websites and services.
Neil Moffatt@VeroniqueB99 Capitalism acting as cancer destroying the host body. Squeezing its workforce to the point where it cannot buy its produce ...
trainguyrom@VeroniqueB99 the concerning part here is that 50% of retail spending is made up by just the top 10% earners in this country. That's a very small margin of wiggle room before things start collapsing into recession:
https://www.marketplace.org/story/2025/09/17/top-10-of-earners-make-up-half-of-us-retail-spending
The BLS is expected to release updated jobs numbers for the first time in months next week and the following week. I have a nasty feeling that might be the one-two punch to send the markets tumbling
Knut 🏳️🌈 🇳🇴🧸@VeroniqueB99 I bought $20 work of tablet weaving stuff on Black Friday and it wasn't even a deal. BUY BUY BUY! No...NOT STUFF TO MAKE SHIT YOURSELF!
argonaut@VeroniqueB99 @falcennial
another truth bomb?
the deals are shit. they have all the world’s data and do shitty deals. hopeless little shitty dealers. i’ll dance on their graves when they fold.
@argonaut @falcennial How very true. I now use them as benchmark and 100% of the time, I find a better deal... pff🤣