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I admire Amazon. I just don’t shop there anymore.
- rikacomet 14y agoI don't buy from amazon, because they don't have any cash, prepaid card options in my country (not until I last checked it)
- revelation 14y agoThe word Amazon appears in this article 34 times. The actual article is the same "zen fluff" of "I need less consumer goods" and "I was suddenly realizing I was buying useless crap".
- sublimit 14y agoFine, then don't. (These words were just about as enlightening as the article.)
- timmins 14y agoThis is such an amazing coincidence. I stopped reading Pando articles. It wasn't a conscious boycott. It just happened after reading a few articles and seeing little to no value in exchange for the time reading each one.
- ChuckMcM 14y agoOk I chuckled on this one. I wonder how much money this sort of non-article article brings in, and I wonder at how soon before we're using bayesian techniques to generate these sorts of stories from non-actual-authors. Automaton authors serving page views to automaton viewers clicking on ads they will never read. The advertisers know they are getting fleeced, see the story about the Facebook hordes. I wonder when that particularly sorry pigeon will come to roost.
- jgj 14y agoI wonder if the author did any research or reflection into the supply chain of the local shops he so self-ingratiatingly now espouses. Does he know for sure that the books he special orders from inside of a building other than his home don't just, you know, come from Amazon?
- greenyoda 14y agoActually, that would make a lot of sense. If a bookstore ordered its special-order books from Amazon, it could get them shipped for free in two days (with Prime) and re-sell the book for list price, making a decent profit. Probably a lot faster than ordering the book from the publisher.
- jasonmw 14y agoArticles like this are more appropriate for the writer's personal diary. I don't see how his spending habits have anything to do with Amazon.