Boycotting Amazon

Possibly, but a change in the law so that they can't avoid paying their fair share of tax would perhaps be more effective. Not simple though.

I think the chances of enough people boycotting Amazon to actually make them take notice are about the same as me winning Miss World or being able to plait snot.

EEEUUUWW! plaiting snot! but I have closed my account at Amazon anyway!

Yuk, phoenix! And I'm sorry, but I won't be boycotting Amazon because it provides an invaluable service. Boycotting isn't the way - changing the tax laws is.

I won't be using them either. If enough of us make a stand, it will hit them, and they will know why. Yes, we could influence those companies, if we hit them in the pocket hard enough.

Living abroad, Amazon take a dimension of its own - but sometimes you just have to say 'no', even if it is very inconvenient. I'm sure we will survive without them.

Sorry I won't be boycotting them either. Let the governments close the loopholes...a more worthy cause than culling badgers.

I won't be boycotting them either. I've got a Kindle for one thing.

Kindle would be the problem for me. I don't think we should have to find a way of preventing companies from exploiting tax loopholes - the government should be closing the loopholes.

since when do we, women of the world, wait for Governments to act for us.
Cop out.

Sometimes the probable effect of a boycott is just too negligible to be justified.

nanaj grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

No boycotting from me either, I have a Kindle to support!

Probably more effective to target Starbucks if you want to make a point. Amazon is so dominant in the market and does not really have equivalent competitors. Whereas Starbucks has lots. Amazon would never notice.
But of course a boycott of Starbucks could cause people working there to lose their jobs.
Us Brits are very bad at "buying British" in all sectors aren't we.
Maybe because the Germans and the Japanese have been better at building and marketing cars?
Maybe because we want cheap knickers?
Maybe because we are suckers for "brands"
Maybe because we just think all things foreign are better?
If a successful British company has an operation in another country do you really think they sit down and discuss in a board meeting:
"Shall we just pay all our local taxes to the maximum or shall we employ a few extremely clever tax experts to ensure that we pay as little tax as possible?"
The job purpose for directors is always to "increase shareholder value" (and staying legal).
There are many UK companies that have availed themselves of tax breaks in Ireland, by setting up their official corporate headquarters (with just a handful of staff) in Dublin.

British coffee? How? Where?

Sorry. Couldn,t resist.

I agree with what most people are saying ,it's up to the government to change laws I can't understand why they haven't closed the loophole that's enabling this to happen. As for John Lewis, the last few items I have looked at online have been about £30 more expensive in their store so I never shop there.

I heard someone say that the Post Office is employing more people because of the increase in on-line buying. Surely more jobs is a good thing. I for one use Amazon without a guilty conscious!

Well .... I am an Amazon" junkie" but thought can I survive without it ? I had several items in my basket (Christmas gifts) ready to purchase so I decided try to get them else where.It actually was not as difficult as I thought and managed to get all the items on other websites and actually paid LESS than Amazon even including postage..Go Me lol
The sticking point for me is my Kindle ,however my stepdaughter assures me that I can download from elsewhere (bought me out in a cold sweat)As for Starbucks I have been boycotting them for some time now (they refused to send some freebies to troops serving in Iraq)
Really shouldn't the government be more proactive and close these loopholes that allows this to happen,wont be holding my breath though !!!

Boycott Amazon ! are you mad ?

My finances would bounce back to instant health if I could do this - but what would everybody get for Christmas and what would I read?

Can any of us honestly say that we would pay tax that we weren't legally obliged to pay? It seems to me that it is tax laws that are the real problem.

After the news about Starbucks tax situation broke I noticed that Starbucks was empty for a couple of days but everyone is back there now.

Boycotting a company like Amazon is a waste of time. With their global reach of millions of customers, even if every customer in the UK stopped using them, they could move their operations to somewhere outside the UK, or just re brand themselves with a new name and we'd all still rush to buy from them.

What it needs is the Government to close these loopholes. Of course that would force prices up as they will still want to make a profit.

Amazon might not notice a boycott but the alternative companies we use might notice an increase in sales. I walked down my local highstreet yesterday and decided I could get all my christmas presents from there. I will not be buying from Amazon this year. A slight hesitation over my kindle but, I have been using it a lot less because I can usually reserve anything I want to read from my local library, I may have to wait a few weeks but no hardship. Forget kindle its important to keep our local library open. I am also angry that after buying a kindle I can only download books from amazon at the moment.