AIBU to have cancelled my Amazon Prime

[Nonsensesponsence]

That's it.

There are people on this thread who have said they’ve stopped buying stuff they don’t need since cancelling.

You should have given your post the title "Oooh look at me!"

@Mnetcurious

"well personally I like Amazon so I’ll continue” type of comments. These kind of attitudes are why the planet is doomed and so is society."

ok, could you explain why liking Amazon is bad for the planet as you said the above/

How do you know that? Am I unusual never to have a conversation with anyone in real life about what I buy from Amazon, are we meant to be finding that out to judge our friends on?

I have already explained this to you, it’s the ATTITUDE of ‘well I like it so I don’t care if it’s unethical’ (in whatever way - carbon footprint/ supporting billionaires/ tax avoidance etc). It’s not specifically about Amazon prime.

Watch "But Now! The Shopping Conspiracy" on Netflix.

You provide a mail order service for a low price, offer a "one-click" button, and people go mad, buying bog-brushes from China or wherever. Not good for the planet.

no, but lots of people I talk to all live in a place pretty far from shops so it's a bit of a running joke that we rely on Amazo so much

well for me. buying esentials and not driving 12 miles to the nearest place to buy a bog brush, it's far more planet friendly to use amazon.
Just annoys me a little that people hear Amazon and assume everyone is buying endless unnecessary tat from it.
it's actually a fabulous sevice and better environmentally to have one van dropping off 20 deliveries rather than 20 cars driving miles to the nearest shops

I posted upthread that a global 'cancel Amazon' day would great. If enough people supported it, that would send a really strong message to Trump. Plus we would have the huge entertainment value of watching Bazos and Trump and the White House lawn trying to flog Amazon shite while Trump rants about it being illegal to not shop on Amazon. They'd be like Del Boy and Rodney 😂

I just buy normal branded stuff like at the supermarket. No Chinese tat here

Actually the environmental benefit depends on the return rate - if the van saves 5 miles on average and more than 1 in 4 return over 20 miles then it’s not helping the planet

and the impact of increased sales - everything that makes buying easier is done to drive up sales of stuff that all had a negative environmental impact - your environmental cost is proxied reasonably well by your overall spend

a loo brush can be bought as part of your weekly / monthly normal shop

So you are joining in? Like Canada! I personally wouldn't get involved. Free trade for all!

This isnt just or even primarily about tariffs. It's about fascism and the erosion of democracy being supported by Bezos and chums

Ok.... Not sure why you needed to announce it, but well done you

Oh OK. It does make every purchasing decision tricky when you go down that route of course.

Eh? I can afford prime many times over but do not have it.

I love Prime, have it for the deliveries (that friends/family use as well), the unlimited books, free music and the streaming. Also pay for Disney+ (and Netflix for DD).

Def won't be giving it up, no matter how much I dislike Trump.

😂

I read that as Kevin from Motherland.

I don't have any Apple products but do have two friends working for Amazon who would be very sad to lose the jobs they love. So, can I keep Prime?
(I also don't have Sky TV, only terrestrial, so quite like Prime stuff and also like the quick, free home delivery I also benefit from since my local council killed off the town centre by pedestrianising most of it and removing pretty much all the parking resulting in all the decent shops closing).

Also, I note the OP says she cancelled her Amazon Prime, she hasn't said she's not still using Amazon itself... 🤔😉😁

You have to do it on the full website. Cant do it in the app.

Given the number of incidents Boeing have had over the last few years, when I was planning a long-haul trip I was glad to see that Aer Lingus run an all-Airbus fleet.

Who goes out especially to buy a bog brush? Most people would pick one up when they were out buying other things too, but conversely they'll think nothing of having that van go out of their way dropping off one item at a time (in a rural area it may be doing a significant distance between drop-offs as I bet that you and your neighbours don't coordinate).

Not that you care about the planet anyway. You've been on other threads with your climate denial.

Surely just buy the toilet brush on the next Amazon order you do, I generally get an Amazon delivery about every 1-2 weeks same as supermarket delivery so it is delivered at a suitable time when I am in. I usually have about 5-10 things on the Amazon order as I use it for some grocery shopping. A pass for supermarket shopping it is about £90 a year so similar to Amazon, though I am using Waitrose at the moment as I'm between passes and using a couple of offers, I shall use Morrisons from Amazon for one supermarket delivery as I have a voucher.

There aren’t. The likes of Ali express are full of cheap knock-offs disguising themselves as the real thing, and is the kind of company you really wouldn’t or shouldn’t want to give your credit card details to.

These virtue signalling posts are hilarious.

It’s one thing to cancel a service/stop consuming a product because of your feeling against whatever you like. It’s quite another to start a thread asking if you’re unreasonable to do so with no explanation why until you were asked. So I suspect that you were hoping for a load of “absolutely not. They’re American so everyone should be cancelling them.” Instead you didn’t, and had to elaborate, and find out that nobody cares. lol.