I hope avoiding Amazon fits this community rules?

I need a few bits to resurrect an old PC. My Amazon cart is $68 with shipping - we’re going to cancel Prime, but my wife is still working on downloading all her photos. Best I can do elsewhere is near double this PLUS shipping from 3 different suppliers and 2 of the suppliers are on eBay, which is also a US company.

I moved to Canada a few years ago from Australia where I had pccasegear, scorptec and others. It seems Canadians have become reliant on the US market and Amazon and we now have no competitive local retailers for this type of thing?

  • @[email protected]English
    4•1 day ago

    If you do decide to go amazon just remember the working conditions the employees are going through. Then remember the distribution centre that Amazon shut down in Quebec because they unionized.

    If AWS was not such a major part of the internet I would be going 100% boycott, avoiding sites that where hosted on AWS but that is not realistic. The most I can do is not shop on Amazon and cancel my Prime account, done and done. My prime account is up for renewal in November I think, but all the Amazon apps have been removed from my home and Amazon is blocked via my pi-hole.