• Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Please people, cancel all these stupid subscriptions and delete your amazon account. I lived all my life without it, I promise you you dont need this.

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      1 day ago

      Definitely a perfect world. I kept my Amazon account and keep an eye out whenever there’s a huge discount on a product such as their warehouse deals. I was too slow to finalize my order of an APC UPS that was over 50% off.

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        Yeah I don’t shop Amazon anymore but my parents use my prime account for tv so when I asked them if I could cancel it, my mom just said she would start paying it and I’m not trying to pass off my payments to my parents so unless I can somehow teach my 60+ year old tech-illiterate parents the ways of the sea, I’m stuck handing my money to the fuckers (the company are the fuckers, not my parents)

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          unless I can somehow teach my 60+ year old tech-illiterate parents the ways of the sea

          Host an arr stack for them, they only need the front end.

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      Shopping “hub”? No. But online Canadian shops still exist, they are separated into niches though.

      You can either choose the monopoly controlling the entire market and abusing their staff, or smaller companies that you have to spend an extra minute searching up.

      On China, most of your stuff is coming from China anyways. This is a neutral fact, not good or bad. Just a truth of globalization. China can manufacture things cheaply, so almost everything is manufactured there in 2025.

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        22 hours ago

        Know if any place to get audiobooks. I mean now I get on my boat but if a local Canadian company was offering.

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          20 hours ago

          It’s not quite what you were asking for, but libro.fm – which is American – does give part of its profit from sales to a bookstore of your choosing, and you can select Canadian bookstores to receive that benefit. Not sure what the cut looks like exactly though.