This is completely unrelated but I love your instance name lol!!
What's a better alternative? All I know of is eBay, but I used Amazon to buy DVDs and Blu-Rays to support films, and eBay sales don't count as disc sales the same way that Amazon sales do.
dingus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
realcaseyrollins 11 months ago
Thanks! This actually is a Lotide instance! We're kinda like Lemmy and Kbin but we have more of a Hacker News type feel
zloubida@lemmy.world 11 months ago
An actual shop?
Marruk@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So do you just assume everyone lives within convenient travel distance of a wide variety of shops that would supply everything that they could possibly want, or are you claiming moral superiority because you shop at Walmart instead of online at Amazon?
Skellybones@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Bruh I live in a place like the one you mentioned but even then I can’t find everything I want so online it is.
zloubida@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And why do you think you have no other choice than Amazon and Walmart in America? It’s not a natural state of things.
Marruk@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So did you just skip the first half of my comment, or did you not understand the words?
Newsflash: not everyone in America lives in a major urban area where a wide variety of shops are available, let alone small independent shops. I live 30 minutes from the nearest city, which is a small city. There’s a huge amount of products that are not available in either my immediate area or even in the closes city. I don’t mind paying extra to avoid major chains, and I typically look elsewhere before resorting to Amazon, but paying extra and spending 2+ hours in a car to avoid Amazon is not a viable alternative.
If you’re going to talk about the “natural state of things”, then I assume you simply go out into the nearest forest, cut down a tree, and build whatever you need using the assortment of stone tools you’ve hand crafted?
yata@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
You are aware that there are other online vendours than amazon, right?
Marruk@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Really? I had no idea! /s
Seriously, though… just because there are other vendors that sell online does mean that each and every thing someone may want/need is available from other vendors online. Amazon has spent decades forcing competitors either out of business or to work through Amazon. They also leverage volume and loss leaders to drastically undercut prices of competitors they can’t eliminate.
On top of that, there are a lot of small businesses that provide even shittier service (or are outright scams) than Amazon. Many require credit cards for online transactions, and you have no idea how they’re handling that data. Plenty exist that store CC info on local servers with nonexistent security precautions.
“Just shop online elsewhere” is just as lazy and undeservedly self-righteous as assuming everyone can just walk to a physical store to buy whatever they want.
realcaseyrollins 11 months ago
LOL the state of buying discs in brick and mortar store is abysmal now. I used to like buying discs from Walmart but the one near me has relegated everything to a bargain bin of kids' movies, basically. Practically the only way to buy discs now is to do so online, or at a Best Buy or Barnes & Noble if you have one near you
B_noire@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Dang, I feel lucky to have a chain that is basically the modern equivalent of Blockbuster with several stores near me. It’s so much fun being able to physically browse through movies.
realcaseyrollins 11 months ago
That sounds awesome, what's the chain called? I'll be traveling in about a month and I'd like to stop by if I come across one
bdiddy@lemmy.one 11 months ago
lol at actual shop… Those were put out of business a LONGGGGGGGGGGGG time ago…
Shops these days are home depot, walmart, best buy, academy, etc…