Took so long to get busted.

Someone recently told me to start checking other sites than Amazon for prices because a lot of times you can find whatever you are looking for cheaper. I’ve been surprised how much this has turned out to be true. Especially with books.

And nothing will happen to amazon

Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy

Capitalism

The majority of stuff on Amazon is just stuff from Temu now

"Busted" in a way they will continue to do it. Courts are captured, feds will bail them out at one level and or another, after they pay their deductible on their protection plan. State courts are fucked in their own right, and prosecutors are pulling punches anyway, no backup from the party, no air support, as if we didn't know how to play realpolitik.

Yeah this isn't "you're busted for fucking over the little guy," at best this is "you're busted for fucking over the little guy without giving us our cut." They pay a cost of doing business fine and carry on with their bullshit.

My wife would buy stuff of Tiktok shop and I got annoyed thinking she was over spending on stuff. Went and compared to Amazon and they were all bargains. It's crazy because Tiktok shop offers free shipping too and almost every product they sell pays out to an affiliate promoting it with some video.

Shocker! Capitalist company does capitalist things!

Tiktok isn’t yet worried about making it profitable. The rest of their business can subsidize this for now. Then they’ll turn on the money hose once they’ve acquired customers/people get accustomed to buying things from tiktok.

I would have thought their market share is saturated by now. I see no reason why they couldn't just do that now and become at parity with Amazon.

I am not sure if people will ever become accustomed to buying things on Tiktok, at least not in the way they do with Amazon. You don't really shop on TikTok as much as you get sold things to you. Its not easy to actually find things in the shop, the marketing though is amazingly effective. I have never seen so many gadgets and gizmos I never knew I wanted until I used it. Its an excellent way for me to develop a wishlist for myself as I am hard to shop for.

Haven't ordered from Amazon in over a year, and man it feels good. It's true about lower prices elsewhere. Many other sites offer free shipping too, and you don't have to spend $50 or whatever Amazon is charging non prime members now to get it.

When the cons go on about the "free market" and competition, all they really are interested in is competition between individuals to be able to apply for wage slavery positions.

They are definitely NOT all that interested in having real competition between various entities. See their reactions to things like the post office, public schools and municipal wifi.

They absolutely HATE the idea of government entities setting a ceiling on prices. They agitate and agitate on stripping the post office and public schools and line up on the side of private tyrannies when it comes to muni wifi. They also don't really give much of a damn when it comes to huge inequities of siren server companies, except to make some vague noises about how the "liberal" Big Tech (lol) is "cancelling" conservative speech (lmao even).

So, if they really value competition so fucking much, they'd welcome the additional competition, even if it's from the government. They act like that's "cheating" or something instead.

Unfettered capitalist company does unfettered capitalist things.

Fixed it for you.

"Busted" implying anything will happen to them.

That'll be a $100K fine, no fault admitted, no executives in prison. Calling it now.

I got tired of Amazon shipments arriving several days late and have to have multiple items reshipped. So I started shopping around and a lot of stuff has been cheaper. Sometimes drastically.

I've left Amazon as well. What are your go-to sites?

Especially with books.

Want the best deal on books you'll probably read once? Support your local library. :D (They've got audiobooks and ebooks too!)

Want to cherish your own copy forever and ever? If it's not in the library bookstore there's sites like BetterWorldBooks that are pretty cool.

Amazon is definitely the last place I'd wanna look for a book. I'd go to Barnes & Noble first just for the vibes haha.

The short form viewer market is saturated, but it hasn’t been fullly converter to a shopping online market yet. They are in the classic early stages of enshitification, sell at loss to increase sales and lock in suckers.

There is no site that replaces Amazon. Depends on what I'm looking for. Often, I go straight to manufacturer of what I want. They'll have coupons sometimes on other websites that may, or may not work. I have to work a little harder to shop, but it's worth it.

Oh yeah, I wasn't looking for a 1:1 replacement for Amazon, my bad. I was just curious if you had any decent ones in general.