Would you accept cheaper rent in exchange for a monthly Amazon purchasing quota?

Post by geofft » Sat, Aug 03, 2019, 3:29 PM UTC

megaremote wrote: post #52

geofft wrote: post #3

Thought experiment (I don't actually want to go down this road): can you out-market Amazon in this scenario? If you have a $400 committed spend for a $500 rent discount, can you find people who would buy things from Amazon anyway and offer to make purchases on their behalf at a 1% discount (which is, on paper, obviously rational for them), such that you're now getting back $396 of the $400? Now you're spending a mere…

> If you have a $400 committed spend for a $500 rent discount, That makes no sense, who wouldn't do that. It would be more like $250 rent discount for $500 purchases.

Post by einpoklum » Sat, Aug 03, 2019, 7:11 PM UTC

Post by einpoklum » Sat, Aug 03, 2019, 7:17 PM UTC

daxelrod wrote: post #30

The apartment building I live in already has a business deal with Amazon. Not for appliances, but for an Amazon Hub Apartment Locker. https://www.amazon.com/b?node=17337376011 I get an email with a pickup code to the email address tied to my Amazon account whenever a package arrives that is too big for my mailbox, from any sender. This means that Amazon presumably has a profile about my package receiving habits, incl…

Post by usrusr » Sun, Aug 04, 2019, 2:46 PM UTC

mlthoughts2018 wrote: post #74

usrusr wrote: post #73

Basically why I haven't watched season 3 of The Expanse: I'm far from being an Amazon boycottist, but I refuse to enter any form of ongoing agreement that would make them a default choice or bring them closer to becoming one. I have never put even remotely as much thought into this as the author, but the central idea has been clear nonetheless: don't give away your wallet-vote in a bulk transaction, nothing good can…

I don’t understand this way of thinking. I despise Amazon in a variety of ways, but I think they do a great job in a variety of other ways. Wouldn’t it be reasonable for me to spend money on the parts I think are good, like Prime Video, and withold money from the parts I think are utterly stupid (anything Alexa-related)? Assuming Amazon reacts to spending habits of its customers, wouldn’t I be more able to effect cha…

Post by notyourwork » Mon, Aug 05, 2019, 9:47 PM UTC

kwhitefoot wrote: post #88

notyourwork wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you buy that amazon doesn’t sell?

Most of what I buy these days are services not goods. I pay to have the wheels changed on my car twice a year (winter versus summer tyres), insurance, house painting and maintenance, servicing for my car, electricity, water, sewerage, an internet connection. As for goods, well I buy a new computer about once a decade and a phone perhaps twice as often, fresh bread, fruit, vegetables, meat, butter, biscuits, and tea,…