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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk
Absolutely worth the expense for me. Amazon saves me time, money on gas, wear and tear on a car going from store to store and helpful reviews that keep me from buying products that just don't work as claimed. The multitude of choices for each product is unprecedented. When I need something my first thought is Amazon. 1-2 days later it is at my door. Plus, I get videos to watch.
I buy from Amazon no less than 1-3 times a week and it is certainly integrated into my life thus the increase in the fee I'm ok with.
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Sounds like a horror story by Ray Bradbury to me. Reminds me of "The Predestrian". Be sure they don't save you your life, wear and tear on bones, muscles and angles, and all that oxygen spent.
And when ordinary small local shops and businesses go out of business, the towns necessarily must - and do - start looking deserted. Its a sight to be seen everywhere in Germany. This started to worry me some years ago when I realised that more and more items of ordinary life I must not look for at town anymore, for I knew there would not be a store selling them anymore anyway. It was then when I started to reduce by Amazon buying.
Also, dirty it is how they play with their marketplace sellers. First they invite third parties to advertise and sell via Amazon, and cash ion that, then they analyse this market evaluation done by marketplace sellers for them (and mind you, Amazon gets the data plus a fee), and when they realise some marketplace seller has a profitable idea or an itekm Amazon cpouold profitably sell itself, they start to make life miserable for him (for example by delaying payment transfers), and start to establish that business and product themselves - outpricing the marketplace seller.
Thats as dirty as it can become. I would never use Amazon marketplace, if I were a business man. Its as if I would ask them to be allowed paying them a fee for abusing and finally executing me.
For cutsomer, Amazion is nice and well, its great, yes. But behind the curtain, its establishing a market-dominating power that distorts the whole market and in the end, if we allow it to go that far, will prevent free market from functioning. Depending on just one or two main contractors for your vital needs, never is a good thing. It makes you extremely vulnerable, and weak - and them horrifyingly strong and powerful.