Amazon Warns Employees About 'Million Mask March' On Seattle HQ Today (geekwire.com)

reifman writes: Amazon is warning employees not to wear clothing with company logos, and telling them to keep their badges out of sight as hundreds of people loyal to the hacktivist group Anonymous plan to march on the tech giant's Seattle headquarters this afternoon. A Facebook message from the Seattle-based group reads, "On November 5th, we will be rallying at Westlake Park in Seattle at 2pm, and then marching to the Federal Courthouse at 3pm, and from there, we shall march to Amazon for some serious lulz!. Teach-ins and rallies will continue throughout the remainder of the day."

Comments

Article is full of crap

[Anonymous Coward]

I just walked from Westlake to the Weston, and I saw no protesters.

Re: Article is full of crap

[Anonymous Coward]

Exactly. There is no evidence of a protest, but that hasn't stopped the CONservatives from claiming that there is one.

Re: Article is full of crap

[Anonymous Coward]

Exactly. Nothing. The Morons that work for Amashit.com are typically republicans and insanely paranoid, but I repeat myself.

Re: Article is full of crap

[Anonymous Coward]

The media here in Seattle fine full right wing Republican retard.

Re: Article is full of crap

[Anonymous Coward]

Nothing happened. This is all a Republicanblican lie. Expect fuxs knees to add CGI protestors to a picture is Seattle. They lie so much they make me want to die. Want to die.

Re: Article is full of crap

[Impy the Impiuos Imp]

FUX faux Fox Fawkes!

Re: Article is full of crap

[Anonymous Coward]

I was just there 20 mins ago.. .shit is getting real. Cops are in riot gear.

Re: Article is full of crap

[Anonymous Coward]

The military just started dropping napalm on the zombies.

Re: Article is full of crap

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, because Bezoes and Amazon are a well known right-wing organization. Wait for it... .... bwhahahahahahha!

This just shows how utterly NUTS and delusional the left has become. Be sure to check behind the door each night because... BOO!.

Re: Article is full of crap

[Anonymous Coward]

You are deeply 'CONfused.' It's the Space Aliens living in yer Brain that are causing you to type that. Listen... do you hear them slowing eating your gray matter. Hurry! RUN!

Re: Article is full of crap

[wyHunter]

I doubt there's a single Republican at amazon.

Re:Article is full of crap

[wyHunter]

Perhaps theyhate you because you're deranged? Hell I'm not even a Republican and I think you're deranged.

Re: Article is full of crap

[uninformedLuddite]

Happy Hanukkah my fiend

Marchers

[Anonymous Coward]

May all of their flies be fully unzipped, with their penises flapping in the breeze. Now THAT would be a march. Mask your face! Unmask your penis! Or not.

Re: Marchers

[Anonymous Coward]

That would actually be legal here, provided they kept flapping for the duration. Yay WA public nudity laws!

Really.

[Anonymous Coward]

They're all a bunch of Anonymous Cowards!

Kids

[Anonymous Coward]

600 kids signed up on Facebook to wear meme masks and go on a march.
That's always been the problem with Anonymous, they let the loudest idiots speak in their name and redefine their cause.

Re:Kids

[dysmal]

On the bright side, that's 600 kids who are committing to be outside and walking today!

Re:Kids

[tnk1]

Anonymous has no case. It is a catch-all for people who wish to act under that name. There can't be be a case if *everyone* is allowed to assume the moniker and there is no qualification based on philosophy.

Anonymous is an expression of what people can do, if they are able to hide their identities and act as a spontaneously self-coordinating group.

However, what is done will become increasingly random as more and more people wish to use the name and the methods.

Someone comes up with an idea, and whoever likes it can join in through coordinating via social media or IRC or whatever. Consequently, it could be a huge success, or a total bust, or anything between.

Re:Kids

[amicusNYCL]

There can't be be a case if *everyone* is allowed to assume the moniker and there is no qualification based on philosophy.

Nonsense, they define their agenda very clearly right here:

Why are we protesting, you ask?

Here is a list of many of the things we are protesting against...

* The White House's continued attacks on 'whistleblowers'.

* The NSA's illegal and unconstitutional spying on ALL American citizens.

* The corrupt courts and unconstitutional rulings against us.

* Our City, County, State, and Federal politicians creating unjust and unconstitutional taxes, laws, and fees against the people without any representation or regard for our rights and freedoms.

* The continued arrests of the people for exercising our constitutional rights.

* The detainment of political prisoners who risked everything to keep the American people informed, safe, and free.

* The continued physical, verbal, and emotional abuse being brought upon the people by law enforcement personnel.

* The use and expansion of the FBI, DHS, NSA, and other government agencies for the sole purpose of silencing free speech, and treating us like terrorists.

* The use of the media to mislead us and divide the people into warring factions, or to keep the masses uninformed and blissfully ignorant of the truth about what is happening in the world around us.

* The continuing wars that have no purpose except to keep the elite wealthy and powerful, while the rest of the world suffers from death, poverty, disease, famine, etc.

* The corporate control of all aspects of our daily lives.

* The constant poisoning of our food, water, and air.

* The allowance of rapists, molesters, and pedophiles to harm our children, while innocents are treated like criminals.

* The use of propaganda to spread fear, lies, and distrust among the people.

* The continued mistreatment of indigenous people around the world and illegal occupations of tribal lands for the sake of global expansion and development.

* The recent government shutdown without any regard for the well-being of the people.

* The mistreatment of war veterans.

* The allowance of rape culture and lack of any real justice in our courtrooms.

* Lack of transparency within our government, and the illegal use of secret courts to detain and prosecute innocent civilians.

This is, by far, not a complete list of the grievances we hold against our own government bodies, or the governments of other nations, but it shows a great and severe illness within our society; a global systemic failure that cannot continue.

You don't support the constant poisoning of our food, water, and air, do you? What about distrust among the people, are you one of those pro-distrust non-persons? I bet you are...

I would support Anonymous, but it doesn't look like they're protesting against that orca that was caught on video punting that seal. I can't really get behind a cause that is pro-seal-punting.

Re:Kids

[Anonymous Coward]

I am curious about the bit where it says "allowance of rape culture."

I must have missed some headlines or something. What events are prompting that concern?

Re: Kids

[Anonymous Coward]

Go read "gamergate" come back if you brain is about ready to pop from the retardation on all sides.

Re:Kids

[Anonymous Coward]

Heh

* The corrupt courts and unconstitutional rulings against us.

* Our City, County, State, and Federal politicians creating unjust and unconstitutional taxes, laws, and fees against the people without any representation or regard for our rights and freedoms.

* The recent government shutdown without any regard for the well-being of the people.

Re:Kids

[Anonymous Coward]

Anonymous is just a bunch of bored teenagers and man-kids who haven't had the real world slap them in the face yet. Let them protest, let them cry persecution when they spent the night in jail for throwing rocks at police, etc... they are harmless and will grow up eventually.

Re:Kids

[HornWumpus]

Same as the occutards?

Re:Kids

[Anonymous Coward]

Anonymous is just a bunch of bored teenagers and man-kids who haven't had the real world slap them in the face yet.

In other words, they're average Slashdotters?

Re:Kids

[Anonymous Coward]

maybe it's the fact that Bill Cosby got away with raping all those White women, or how Eldride Cleaver's book Soul on Fire in which he brags about raping White women as "an insurrectionary act" was called "brilliant and revealing" by the New York Times Review of Books and is required reading in a number of college classes.

Re:Kids

[Anonymous Coward]

So, they are better than you, then.

Re:Kids

[rsborg]

I am curious about the bit where it says "allowance of rape culture."

I must have missed some headlines or something. What events are prompting that concern?

How about this? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

"The hacking group Anonymous has threatened to make public the identities of four boys accused of gang-raping a Canadian teenager who later killed herself after images of the attack went viral."

Or this? http://www.rollingstone.com/cu...

A summary of all the things above states essentially that Anonymous will defend the weak and preyed upon by exposing their tormentors.

Re: Kids

[uninformedLuddite]

oh fuck off

Re:Kids

[uninformedLuddite]

A few rapes does not men we are living in a 'rape culture'. The fact you get modded informative is just another indication of how much /. has gone to shit. if any countries are living the horror of what should be called 'rape cultures' they are the Scandinavian countries, Bet anonymouse doesn't jack up about any real fucking problems. Fucking wankers.

Why Amazon?

[rsborg]

No real reasoning or anything meaningful.

Plus since when has Anon worked in meatspace? Seems like an easy way to get caught or otherwise expose yourself (fellow Anons, let's self-dox!)

Re:Why Amazon?

[Anonymous Coward]

Nonny lost his way when it went mainstream! I was Anonymous before it was cool!

Re:Why Amazon?

[xxxJonBoyxxx]

This could be Anonymous's way of "Jack Welshing" its own ranks (thinning the weakest 10%). Have nothing better to do in the middle of the day than hang out in public at a "teach-in"? You're fired!

Re:Why Amazon?

[Anonymous Coward]

Plus since when has Anon worked in meatspace?

That stupid Operation Chanology where they protested Scientology?

Re:Why Amazon?

[alvinrod]

Plus since when has Anon worked in meatspace?

I think it was when they had a lot of people running around in Guy Fawkes masks back when they were protesting Scientology. I don't really know if those people were the same Anonymous that does a lot of the other stuff Anonymous does (probably not) but I recall some of the protest meetups were pretty big.

Re:Why Amazon?

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, it's very strange. The only point that is remotely applicable to Amazon is

The corporate control of all aspects of our daily lives.

But does Amazon control all aspects of our lives? The masks and the date seem to indicate that this is a Papist event. Maybe they think there are too many Protestants working at Amazon.

Re:Why Amazon?

[Mister Transistor]

Methinks thou dost Protestant too many?

Plus, if you order early, you can get it wrapped in gift-Papist.

about anonymous

[ThorGod]

What ever happened to them? The last time I remember them making headlines they declared war on ISIS.

Re:about anonymous

[Anonymous Coward]

Any group of retards can call themselves Anonymous. The name is literally nothing.

Re:about anonymous

[MickyTheIdiot]

Says an Anonymous Coward.

Re:about anonymous

[Anonymous Coward]

Exactly the point. It's amazing that people are still out there who think Anonymous is some sort of organized group. They never were.

Re:about anonymous

[Anonymous Coward]

Anonymous is a meme. It's origin are from stupid mainstream media believing that everyone posting as 'anonymous coward' is the same person or part of a group. Remember, these idiot think Facebook is the norm. To them anyone posting content without a Facebook id is a elite hacker. Later on peoples made joke about Anonymous being a real thing, producing all sort of propaganda images and video. Search "anonymous fox news" to see how it started.

Re:about anonymous

[Anguirel]

"Anonymous marches on Slashdot offices for calling them cowards."

Re:about anonymous

[Sibko]

Well, whatever affiliation this group ever had with 4chan has been dead for at least three years.

Take "The allowance of rape culture and lack of any real justice in our courtrooms." as an example from a post further up. This isn't 4chan culture, it's tumblr/SJW culture. And if you don't believe me, feel free to visit 4chan any time and try to argue for that statement/position. You'll be lucky if you don't get a 400 post thread full of people calling you a cuck.

Whoever is organizing this "hacktivist" (ugh) group, it sure as fuck isn't anyone who has anything to do with 4chan.

Re:about anonymous

[Anonymous Coward]

Does that change anything about the meaning or value of that statement? In other words, do you need to be able to check someone's reputation before you can form your own opinion about such a simple statement? Surely your ability to think for yourself can't be as bad as that?

Re:about anonymous

[Stuarticus]

Your desire to apply a single viewpoint to 4chan is just as nonsensical as anyone else's attempt to assign one to Anonymous.

Re:about anonymous

[Anonymous Coward]

How does a couple of bedrooms count as an office. Yes, that is just how 'stoopid' Anon-tards are.

amazon?

[spongman]

amazon, really?

is the Seattle group just blatantly anti-commerce, or is there something Amazon did to lump them in with all the government injustices they're protesting against?

Re:amazon?

[whathappenedtomonday]

> is there something Amazon did

You mean apart from being Amazon?

Re:amazon?

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes. See WTO riot, see Mardi Gras riot, plus a few more for odd reasons...
Any reason to break windows and watch the cops do nothing.....
They also hate on Amazon because they got some sweet tax incentives from the City to build/stay in Seattle and now "those rich are not paying enough." They wanted Amazon to pay for all sorts of things no other business should have to pay for just to build in downtown. Seattle is full of strange people and ideas.

Re:amazon?

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, based on the corporate suck ass in these two posts I say they might have some points.

Re:amazon?

[spongman]

wait, so Amazon shuts down transactions after existential threats from regulators and you blame Amazon?

Re:amazon?

[spongman]

the WTO riots were in my neighborhood. it was a bunch of assholes from california with nothing better to do than destroy a bunch of local businesses and stand around circle-jerking while morons set fire to trash cans.

Re:amazon?

[spongman]

if you don't like the tax incentives, you need to protest the corrupt government agencies that gave them out. news flash: everyone's trying to get free stuff from the government. you can't blame those that get it. only those that give it out.

Re:amazon?

[Anonymous Coward]

is the Seattle group just blatantly anti-commerce, or is there something Amazon did...

It's not something I've seen first hand but I've read some articles on working conditions in the shipping warehouses that make the management sound callous to the point of sadism - certainly not something that increases my faith in humanity, so to speak. Now, it's not a problem that's specific to Amazon - and Amazon may even be a bit better than others with some of it's warehouse innovations. But it's still a wrong that needs to be righted.

Re:amazon?

[HornWumpus]

It's wrong to offer employment to people free to turn it down? WTF?

Re:amazon?

[Anonymous Coward]

Strawman arguments are lies.

Re:amazon?

[Bing Tsher E]

As long as our books come in time we'll kiss Bezos' O.T.O. ring

Re:amazon?

[spongman]

i'm not kissing anyone's ring. i will pay someone to deliver goods to my door, though. if you think that makes me some kind of slave, you need to get a perspective, seriously.

Re:amazon?

[spongman]

don't like the working conditions there? GO FUCKING WORK SOMEWHERE ELSE!

Re:amazon?

[Anonymous Coward]

If people were truly free to turn it down, for example, if there was a national guaranteed minimum income and they were fully informed about the terms of employment, then it might be OK.

But if, instead, we set up a system that's more along the lines of "If you don't work, you don't eat." - where we are essentially creating a system that forces everyone to work - then we have to be careful not to create a race to the bottom - where the employers are all competing to see who can exploit their workers the most.

Because, in the bigger picture, the goal is to create an environment where as many people as possible have good lives. We're not yet at a point where robots can do all the work. So we do need some incentives for people to work. But, ideally, anyone who wanted could find a job where they were doing meaningful useful work where they were treated well that paid enough to support a family simply but comfortably.

More pragmatically, we do currently have all kinds of worker protection laws. So most people in the developed world do, in fact, think that it's perfectly fine to limit the jobs that you can pay a person to do - and the conditions in which you can require them to work.

Re:amazon?

[Anonymous Coward]

If everyone is entirely selfish then it quickly becomes a race to the bottom. If consumers buy from the cheapest warehouse then the warehouses that treat their employees well go out of business and all that you're left with is the warehouses where the working conditions are horrific.

On the other hand, if the government passes laws to require decent working conditions then a warehouse can provide decent working conditions without going out of business - because all the other warehouses have to provide the same working conditions.

Now, in an economy that's limited by supply, the warehouses with decent working conditions will be less "efficient" so people won't be able to afford quite as much cheap plastic crap. But, in an economy that's limited by demand, do things less "efficiently" actually creates more jobs which increases demand because more people can afford to buy things.

I suppose there are some people who just like an unregulated "free" market on some sort of bizarre ideological grounds. But, me, I don't care if it's a black cat or a white cat as long as it catches mice. So I want whatever will create a society where pretty much everyone has at least a simple comfortable life with a job where they are doing useful work and are treated well. If government regulations help with that, then I'm in favor of government regulations. If moral suasion, in the form of protesters in Guy Fawkes masks accomplishes that, well, that's fine too.

On interesting solution would be to have the federal government serve as an employer of last resort. If you can't find a decent job that treats you well and pays an adequate salary in the private sector then you can always find such a job in the public sector with the federal government.

Re:amazon?

[Anonymous Coward]

It's wrong to offer employment to people free to turn it down?

So why don't they turn it down?

The claim that people are working in very bad conditions is fundamentally inconsistent with the claim that they are free not to. Either you don't really believe that the conditions are as bad as described. Or you don't really believe that people are free to refuse to work in such conditions.

Re:amazon?

[Anonymous Coward]

amazon, really?

is the Seattle group just blatantly anti-commerce, or is there something Amazon did to lump them in with all the government injustices they're protesting against?

Anonymous probably has a problem with the fact that Amazon is alleged to monetize all customer data and provide a one stop shop for anyone who wants to buy that information. Like all conspiracy theories, it is light on evidence and proof however.

Re:amazon?

[Anonymous Coward]

The world you imagine to exist is much kinder and gentler than the world that I imagine exists.

First, you seem to imagine that type of person who works in an Amazon warehouse has lots of other good job opportunities. And, then, as a result, you seem to imagine that people who work in an Amazon warehouse actually like their jobs.

It would be wonderful if that were true: "I had this great job offer to be a software engineer at Google for over $100K/year. But I really just enjoy picking things out of bins on a tight schedule. And the wages that Amazon pays its warehouse workers are so generous that I can provide my family with everything I want them to have. So I told Google I just wasn't interested and took this job in an Amazon warehouse, instead." :)

I guess I'm just a bit more cynical about the world, myself.

Re:amazon?

[Anonymous Coward]

the WTO riots were in my neighborhood. it was a bunch of assholes from california ...

Here in the San Francisco bay area, we call them "professional protestors."

They show up and get arrested in different city "protests" and are well known by law enforcement.

Re: amazon?

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm guessing the entire point of the protest is to make the issues known, whatever they are

Re:amazon?

[Anonymous Coward]

Spent almost this entire year looking for work anywhere. Even tried to make a wedding cake to see if maybe I have what it takes to work in a bakery and was surprised that yes I most definitely do but still not getting any calls back and only BS excuses when I call to check up on apps/resumes.

I am growing to hate this world as my skill set grows. I am literally learning a new skill every month, usually more than just one as each new skill seems to require other skills to begin to learn. Despite this I am still having a hard time finding anything. Not just learning skills as in the YouTube generation approach of watching a video then doing it. Things like picked up plumbing but before I laid any pipework I studies why pipework is done the way it is and found a lot of neat considerations toward water and gas that I never even realized went on in plumbing before.

Re:amazon?

[Anonymous Coward]

If consumers buy from the cheapest warehouse then the warehouses that treat their employees well go out of business and all that you're left with is the warehouses where the working conditions are horrific.

Yes, so the ultimate blame lies with the consumers who simply go for the cheapest option without any thought for why they are cheap. For example, a few months ago I saw a guy in Wal-Mart, decked out with a US-Flag hat, a shirt with the phrase "America First", bitching about all our jobs going overseas... with a cart full of shit made in some sweatshop in China.

On interesting solution would be to have the federal government serve as an employer of last resort. If you can't find a decent job that treats you well and pays an adequate salary in the private sector then you can always find such a job in the public sector with the federal government.

Great, let's take all the people who couldn't get a job mopping the floor at McDonald's because they were completely illiterate and high on crack, and put them in charge of the Government.

Re:amazon?

[HornWumpus]

I believe people are free to make their own decisions and accept the consequences of previous ones.

If the conditions were as bad as some claim, the jobs would go unfilled. They don't.

If a job is filled, it's fairly paid.

Re:amazon?

[HornWumpus]

If we lived in your 'ideal' world there would be no way to get anybody to put forth more than minimal effort. It would suck.

The fact is you get more of anything you subsidize, if you subsidize non-working, non-studying, goof offs you will get many more of them.

Re:amazon?

[ToddInSF]

Slave, no, but it sure does make you a tool though.

Re:amazon?

[spongman]

A tool? How come?

Re:amazon?

[uninformedLuddite]

If a job is filled, it's fairly paid.

Does that statement mean you worship satan?

Re:amazon?

[ChrisMaple]

A business with higher wages and/or better working conditions can be selective about whom it hires. It gets fewer screwoffs, more people who work efficiently, effectively, accurately.

Part of Henry Ford's success was offering wages far above the competition. He got the best employees, and the result was massive growth and profit.

To buy masks?

[captaindomon]

Probably bought their masks on Amazon. That makes me chuckle to myself.

Anony-sux

[Anonymous Coward]

Those little fuckers had BETTER not mess with my recent CAT FOOD order.

OR ELSE.

They WILL answer to my cats.

Hiding corporate logos predicted in Neuromancer

[Anonymous Coward]

"Friday night on Ninsei.
He passed yakitori stands and massage parlors, a franchised
coffee shop called Beautiful Girl, the electronic thunder of an
arcade. He stepped out of the way to let a dark-suited sarariman
by, spotting the Mitsubishi-Genentech logo tattooed across the
back of the man's right hand.
Was it authentic? lf that's for real, he thought, he's in for
trouble. If it wasn't, served him right. M-G employees above
a certain level were implanted with advanced microprocessors
that monitored mutagen levels in the bloodstream. Gear like
that would get you rolled in Night City, rolled straight into a
black clinic."

Better yet - wear your badge and pack heat

[Anonymous Coward]

Scare the piss out of those Anonymous twits so bad they won't come up out of Mommy's basement for another decade.

Anonymous is for cows.

[Anonymous Coward]

You are all cows. Cows say moo. MOOOOO! MOOOO! Moo cows MOOOO! Moo say the cows. YOU PLASTIC MASKED COWS!!

Re:Anonymous is for cows.

[U2xhc2hkb3QgU3Vja3M]

The first 13 characters of Anonymous Coward are Anonymous Cow. Coincidence? I think not!

Fight for your bitcoins!

So...

[Locke2005]

Is this a bad day to wear my Guy Fawkes mask, then?

Re:So...

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes.

(That answer is valid every day when that specific question is asked.)

Employees watch out?

[Anonymous Coward]

LOL, employees watch out for some nerds? LOL!

DANGER, DANGER! Amazon nerds on the loose! Fucking hell, this country is a bunch of loser pussies.

Re:Employees watch out?

[Anonymous Coward]

But not you, eh tough guy?

Re:Employees watch out?

[Anonymous Coward]

LOL, employees watch out for some nerds? LOL!

DANGER, DANGER! Amazon nerds on the loose! Fucking hell, this country is a bunch of loser pussies.

I see you can spot your own kind a mile away!

Because capitalism!

[roninmagus]

March on Amazon, wearing your Guy Fawkes mask that you bought from... Amazon!

Amazon sounds as bad as eBay...

[__aaclcg7560]

I worked IT help desk at eBay for a while. Since eBay doesn't have a phone number on the website, some users would call the operator to get the corporate phone number and start dialing extensions to find someone to pick up. I got few angry phone calls and couldn't help them, redirecting them back to the website. My coworkers and I used to joke around about angry villagers storming the cubicles with pitchforks and torches.

Re:Amazon sounds as bad as eBay...

[grahamsaa]

The thing is, Amazon customer service is actually pretty great. I've never had a problem with them at all.

Re:Amazon sounds as bad as eBay...

[__aaclcg7560]

I once had an Amazon package walked off the doorstep. I waited a few days just in case it was a late delivery, called up Amazon on a Saturday morning and the replacement package arrived 12 hours later by special courier from a distribution center that was 800 miles away. Needless to say, I was impressed.

Re:Amazon sounds as bad as eBay...

[Anonymous Coward]

Amazon customer service is so over-the-top awesome that I honestly don't know how they turn a profit.
Prime costs a lot less than the shipping charges it replaces.
Bought my daughter a Kindle a few years back. Got warranty replacement for broken screens 3 times in a year; no charge.
Since they say they sell the Kindles at cost, I have no idea how they've ever made any money.

Re:Amazon sounds as bad as eBay...

[Last Warrior]

"Prime costs a lot less than the shipping charges it replaces."

It doesn't. Unless you are ordering everything including your groceries from it every week, you are spending more at the end of the year on your prime membership than just ordering more than $35 worth of stuff and selecting free shipping. I've personally worked out the numbers and two day shipping isn't worth the cost of prime for me. I probably order $2000-$3000 worth of stuff from Amazon every year and I probably pay shipping charges of between $10-$40 in a given year for all of it. That includes the stuff where they don't offer free shipping. Have a little patience and you can save quite bit of money.

Re:Amazon sounds as bad as eBay...

[Anonymous Coward]

Amazon customer service is so over-the-top awesome that I honestly don't know how they turn a profit.

The Amazon.com unit itself doesn't turn a profit, never has. AWS on the other hand is a license to print money, it brings in enough revenue to keep itself and the rest of the company going.

Re:Amazon sounds as bad as eBay...

[thinkwaitfast]

honestly don't know how they turn a profit.

This worries me because I use them so much, maybe a few times a month. I'm sure I spend thousands of dollars a year there. Once I ordered product that I needed in an emergency and got next day delivery. I got a low end cheap model because I was not ready yet for the real thing that cost a few thousand (though it was on my wish list).

Anyway, the cheapo product arrived next day as promised, but was DOA. I wrote to amazon who immediately shipped out the replacement. When I received that early the next day, they shipped the thousand dollar and not hundred dollar model. I wrote back and asked if they wanted me to return it or pay extra and they said no, just keep it.

Re:Amazon sounds as bad as eBay...

[Anonymous Coward]

It doesn't for me.
 
FTFY.
 
You're not everyone. Get over it.

Re:Amazon sounds as bad as eBay...

[Gates82]

Back in 2003 or 2004 I ordered a product from Amazon and they shipped the wrong version of the product (CD instead of DVD installation). There was no phone number listed on their website and the return process did not have an option for "sent the incorrect product". I could not get a response from their customer service and was charge $5 to return the item. I have not been back to Amazon since. Newegg has worked for me. When I search for products I rarely see things that I would buy on Amazon for more then a few dollars cheaper then I can get from other sources.

--
MGB

Re:Amazon sounds as bad as eBay...

[bluefoxlucid]

Try ordering absolutely everything you buy with 2-day shipping if it's Prime ready and tell me you spend less than $80.

Re:Amazon sounds as bad as eBay...

[neminem]

Yep - a few months ago, a package didn't show up when it was supposed to. I likewise waited a couple extra days just in case, then opened a chat. Got a new package with the same contents delivered the next day, a free month of Prime, and bonus: the original package *did* show up, about a week later, and they said I could keep it.

Re:Amazon sounds as bad as eBay...

[farble1670]

Back in 2003 or 2004 ...

i am really curious how you could possibly think this is relevant.

Newegg has worked for me.

does newegg have garden shovels, dog food, halloween costumes, and sanitary wipes?

I rarely see things that I would buy on Amazon for more then a few dollars cheaper

i don't think anyone claims amazon is always the cheapest. it is always close to the cheapest, convenient, fast, dependable, a wide variety, and has great customer service (since 2004 anyway).

Re:Amazon sounds as bad as eBay...

[farble1670]

^^^^ this.

amazon gets customer satisfaction. they understand that eating $30 on rush shipping, or a hundred bucks or whatever on a mis-ship once will get them a lifetime customer that spends thousands or more a year and spreads the good word to all their friends and family.

Alternative

[Anonymous Coward]

Make fake Amazon logos and confuse the absolute hell out of people spying for Amazon employees.

Maximum "lulz".

How many short of a million will it be

[DrXym]

I'd be surprised if they manage to muster more than 2-300. And if they do anything remotely illegal it'll be the cops who get the lulz.

Re:How many short of a million will it be

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe 50 in the street. I think this year there are more cops than protesters. They just walked by and now the getto bird helicopters are hovering.

Imagine If

[Texmaize]

Imagine if, the smart slashdot readers applied their intelligence to things outside their technical careers.

Imagine if, instead of buying into reflexive ideology, that slashdot readers weighed all sides of an argument, to get to the truth.

Imagine if, the slashdot readers were not so intellectually cowardly, that they could read from multiple sources and perspectives.

Imagine if, the slashdot readers would have taken a three, to go to Foxnews, and see that there is not an article about millions people hordes protesting amazon and pillaging. In fact, there is no article at all.

Imagine if, slashdot readers could turn the same critical eye reserved only for foxiness, toward other sources such as the New York times and MSNBC. Imagine if, slashdot readers did not treat politics as a team sport, where one side is always good and the other is always bad. Instead, tried to see the the actors of life as they really are, not your teammate.



Or, Imagine if, slashdot once again because a forum of ideas, not ideology.

Imagine that.

Re: Imagine If

[Izuzan]

About as good as msnbc ?

Re:Imagine If

[Bing Tsher E]

It's bitch's turn. I thought we all agreed.

Re: Imagine If

[XxtraLarGe]

If Fox could rise to the standards of TMZ it would represent a sea change for that organization.

I think you just proved their point...

Neuromancer predicted by 17th century merchantmen.

[Anonymous Coward]

Hurr hiding allegiance was totally unknown before cyberpunk gaiz, nerdynerdnerd.

It is a trap!

[Anonymous Coward]

Da Man don't care if you wear a mask, he will ID you anyway. He probably even organised the march so he can get your biometric data on file, so wrap yourselves in tinfoil and march like you have ants in your pants, if you are stupid enough to turn up at all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

50 people showed up

[93 Escort Wagon]

http://www.seattletimes.com/se...

And yes, at least some of the masks were purchased off Amazon.com - using one guy's mom's credit card.

Re:50 people showed up

[Oligonicella]

using one guy's mom's credit card

Bwahahahahahaha!

Re:amazon?: They sold them their masks at a profit

[Fallen Kell]

As the subject says, Amazon sold them their Guy Fawkes masks for a profit, so they are being protested....

Christ!

[Anonymous Coward]

What's with the political bullshit. Are ALL slashdotters on welfare?

Amazon? Facebook?

[Anonymous Coward]

Is that some sort of cyberwar, Facebook vs. Amazon?

My head explodes

Re:

[Anonymous Coward]

-copy post above to re read, also copy link pages to disk for backup, most important use notes to hand out, meet real people, make your own tribes, no one will do it for you, time is short -

Re: - jew front false opposition -

[Anonymous Coward]

That is the most insane, horseshit screed I've ever seen on /.

And so _brave_ to post as AC.

Time to get back on your meds, dude.

Final Analysis

[Anonymous Coward]

Final Analysis: No one in the real-world gives a shit. Anonymous are about as relevant as their collective IQs. Meaning there is nothing there. A puff of smoke is more interesting.

Well, this will certainly

[tompaulco]

Well, this will certainly raise awareness for their cause...uh...whatever, that might be.

Not ISIS, the KKK

[SuperKendall]

ISIS might actually fight back, so they decided to prop up the dying KKK by claiming Anon is fighting them, thus giving the KKK free publicity to attract new members.... I give it a 50% chance the core of Anon are secretly in favor of the KKK.

Re:- jew front false opposition -

[Anonymous Coward]

Troll Much?

March! But leave the employees out of it.

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm fine with Anonymous protesting at Amazon HQ...but leave the employees alone. It's uncool and rude to pester them.

Been there, done that.

[FreedomFirstThenPeac]

Yeah, when I was in AF ROTC at Mich St Univ in 1969-1973 we were told to carry our ROTC uniforms to class in paper bags so we would not be jumped. The protesters did firebomb the Army ROTC building (1970). I went on to a career in the military bombing babies and holding cities hostage. Eventually I single handedly raped an entire civilization (retroactively, without my consent or knowledge) and established a male patriarchy.

Re:Been there, done that.

[FreedomFirstThenPeac]

Forgot the snark tags.

jew front bs-

[Anonymous Coward]

distraction. 'repub democ' 'right left' fraud jew front 'anonymous' bs, besos jew 'anonymous' jew front 'aclu' 'eff' hundreds of jew front bs so they 'lead the opposition'.

- see 'jew' posts above, copy save posts, stop 'following' stop looking for 'leaders' make your own tribes -

jew bs-

[Anonymous Coward]

computer generated bs posts. scum jews dumped on more computer bs posts to move my posts down the thread. see jew posts below

Re:

[Anonymous Coward]

computer generated bs. know what your seeing. fake.
see jew posts above

fck off scum jew-

[Anonymous Coward]

distraction scum jew. your distraction shit is a zero. the mass of info and LINKS beat the shit out of your mass fraud the information shows your fraud 'gvoernment' 'media' mass weapons, your ew scum mass murder jew scum fraud 'minorities' shit yscum fraud mass ripoff 'holo' shit your scum chemtrails attack all of it. Tough shit. fck off scum jew.

-others, you're being sprayed by the mass murdering scum jew tribe, see other posts, copy save, hand info to others, no one's coming to 'save' you, get off your ass or die -