From Amazon to the Amazon

From rapacious profiteering to gentle, mutual understanding

From Amazon

I was interested by a fellow-blogger’s recent invocation not to buy at Amazon. I buy at Amazon, but am always open to reasons not to, and he provides some, thank you. My argument for buying at Amazon has always been that they have pretty much everything I am looking for, that the prices are no more expensive than elsewhere (although he gives insight as to why that might be), and their delivery is fast and efficient (I know, I’ve heard complaints from others, but I’ve never had one myself and, the odd time there were discrepancies, they were cleared up immediately—a selection of oils in which one bottle was missing: I was given a full refund and told to just keep the oils that had been delivered). I was plied with arguments that Mr Bezos is a scoundrel, a profiteer and an extravagant, irresponsible businessman who is unfair to his workers. And I’m not sure whether my buying elsewhere the little that I can afford to buy would dissuade him from that path. In other words: I have little choice, and I make little difference.