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Originally Posted by CommonReader
I seriously dislike Amazon for the dodgy tax deal they made with Luxembourg. The price for the end customer is the same, with Amazon pocketing the 16% difference in VAT. Tax dodging seems to be one of the foundations of their business model.
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I think it's completely silly to blame Amazon for paying all the tax it's to pay. Luxembourg is in the EU; if there is a problem with Amazon paying their tax rate, the problems is either with Lux. or with the EU.
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Apart from that Amazon is mostly creating crap jobs, poorly paid warehouse slaves and exploited delivery people.
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I know that there were problems with a subcontractor in Germany, but, seriously - slaves? Exploited delivery workers? It sounds like you believe that working itself is an imposition.
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The kicking Amazon got in the national media for their poor employment conditions wasn't nearly as bad as they deserved.
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I almost never buy books from them. I appreciate that my city of 300,000 still has at least a dozen bookshops, most of them independently owned. That is where I get my books; same price as Amazon + overnight delivery and maintaining decent jobs in the community.
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Of course paying the same price and getting overnight delivery make it much easier to avoid using Amazon; paying $20 more and waiting 3-6 weeks makes not using Amazon more difficult here.