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What the title says. Every year I hear everyone at work go buzzing about Prime Day, and then when I'd go check what items were on sale they were mostly cheap gaff and a bunch of minimally discounted tech products. Am I missing something that's optimal to get around this time of year?

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[โ€“] jaredwhite@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I got the best deal of all: canceling my Prime membership. I'm saving tons of money! ๐Ÿคก

(but seriously, screw Amazon and their monopolistic, anti-labor practices)

[โ€“] danhakimi@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

fun fact, the term "monopolistic" refers to a specific, relatively competitive type of imperfect competition, and not to monopoly competition. You're thinking of monopoloid practices, or in the case of their labor practices, oligopsonistic (having only a few buyers and many sellers).

[โ€“] jaredwhite@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that. ๐Ÿ˜