Boycotting Amazon

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!

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.

British coffee? How? Where?

Sorry. Couldn,t resist.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.