Are the rioters buying these or the people and shop owners who want to protect their property?
Rioters don't buy things, they steal them.
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#22Might become a Business Ethics Class classic. From my point of view, Amazon should not deliver. It is obvious the bats are intended to be used as weapons, which is illegal at least in Germany, no matter what circumstances.
Ah, so upstanding citizens should have no tools for defending themselves, loved ones, homes & businesses?
Business Ethics Class classic indeed, and with no clear-cut answer.
I'd contend that anyone ordering such products online under such circumstances is not part of the criminal element (who would instead just raid a sporting-goods store, or pick up any comparable object) ... and thus Amazon would do customers well to provide free overnight or same-day shipping.
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#23These loathsome people have no respect for Britain's glorious history or traditions. Real British patriots use cricket bats on their looting spree.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, it would make perfect sense for Amazon to cancel thousands of orders because they could be involved in some kind of ongoing riot. Great idea. /s
This isn't thousands, it's only a few hundred. Remember, the British don't play much baseball so they would normally only be selling a handful of any given bat per day.
A handful of bats = one?
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#254000% increate in the sale of Coleman PefectFlow 1-Burner Stoves on Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/gp/movers-and-shakers/sporting-goods It must be significant.
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#26Are the rioters buying these or the people and shop owners who want to protect their property?
I suspect many of these will be for home owners in these affected areas. Remember that whilst the shops are being targeted, that there are often many people cowering behind locked doors hoping that this will come to an end. This is a just a means of protection for them, should they need it. In the UK people are not allowed to own fire arms, but baseball bats are a different thing altogether.
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#28That doesn't make sense, by the time you get the bat the riots should be over. Are the local sporting good stores all sold out?
Need is mother of all invention.
Pick apart a leg from your kitchen table and defend your properties.
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#29That doesn't make sense, by the time you get the bat the riots should be over. Are the local sporting good stores all sold out?
Doesn't Amazon run a shipping hub out of London? If so they may do same day delivery.
Either way, you're hedging the cost of a bat vs the chance that riots are going to go on for multiple days, or spring up outside of your shop?
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