Link: Alternatives to Amazon Prime

[sonia]

Giving Up Amazon. I'm a little dubious about some of the links in the post, and about the organization posting this, but I thought it might be useful for folks. The organization is called Threshold and says that when 3.5% of the population gets involved in a movement, the movement succeeds. No names or adddresses in the website that I saw, though.

For myself, I never joined Prime because I didn't want the extra incentive to buy more at Amazon. I do occasionally buy things through Amazon, but I try to find them locally first, and I remind myself to look at who benefits if something is more expensive.

Comments

[rosefox]

...augh, really? That bites. I even looked all over their website for a mention of being owned by Amazon and didn't find it. Looks like it's in very tiny print on the About Us page.

Back to the old drawing board. *sigh*

[castiron]

If you're in the United States, I've had good luck with Better World Books for used books. (They might work well outside the US too, but I don't know what their shipping is like.) Reasonable prices; books so far have been as described; frequent sales; option to purchase carbon offsets.