Or refuse to buy

  • bizarroland@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    I refuse to purchase anything from Amazon. Bezos is not getting any of my money.

    I feel like I should stop buying on eBay.

    Actually, I kind of want to see a price fixing lawsuit against eBay now. They are explicitly telling sellers what price to list their items at, raising the prices of goods sold on eBay to the detriment of buyers so that they can get more money out of the commission fees.

    The funny thing is my income has risen dramatically in the last few years, but I’m still approximately at the same level of purchasing power that I was six years ago.

    If you had told me in 2012 I would be making low-mid six figures and still feel poor, I would have laughed at you.

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      25 days ago

      I just bought some things on ebay to avoid Amazon. They dropshipped Amazon to me, individual packages and all, for nearly 100% markup. I don’t know how to avoid that and find “real” sellers dropshipping non-branded warehoused Chinese goods like the good old days.

      • sandwich@lemmy.zip
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        25 days ago
        • sponsored posts are usually drop shippers
        • free returns are usually drop shippers
        • check reviews and search for amazon or usps or post office to see if anyone mentions how they ship
        • be wary of sellers with tens of thousands of feedback

        If you get drop shipped, report a problem say it’s damaged or whatever, and don’t let them send you the Amazon return - use the eBay generated label. Then they have to pay for it and returns absolutely destroy drop shippers. Then leave feedback saying they just drop ship from Amazon