How much money did you give to Jeff Bezos this year?

Ubbquittious

Giving out about him is all the rage this year but I wonder how much are Boardsies actually giving him. I bet some people give out about him but secretly when no one is looking they whip out their credit card and land a couple grand into his account.

Private poll of course. Boards was messing up my Euro symbol so it was left out in the poll options

Hyperbollix

About €500. 16 orders since beginning of the year. That's probably double what I'd normally spend but sure the coke and hookers wasn't possible with social distancing.

I try to give as little as possible to him. One christmas present for my niece in England costing about 20 pounds.

Sonics2k

Didn't buy a damn thing from Amazon and do my best to avoid it. If I'm looking online I'll find the seller on the Amazon site and attempt to buy it directly from their own store or social media.

Typically it's cheaper too as they don't need to mark it up for Amazon's cut.

GarIT

Don't know how much I have him but he has saved me more than anyone else and has the best customer's service I've ever come across.

mickdw

Id say zero in my case but nothibg at all against him.
Brilliant Business man who started from his shed.

booferking

I likely give him close to £125,000 give are take in selling fees and advertising.

2011abc

mickdw wrote: »

Id say zero in my case but nothibg at all against him.
Brilliant Business man who started from his shed.

No excuse nor doesnt make up for for treating staff like dirt

LenWoods

I've purchased everything possible throughout the year right down to wagtastic bones for the dog saved over 25 euro compared to buying 20 from Tesco.

mickdw

2011abc wrote: »

No excuse nor doesnt make up for for treating staff like dirt

Im not overly familiar but does he treat them any worse than
say zero hour contract staff at any number of other businesses?

PsychoPete

I only use Amazon for Prime Video

elperello

The thread is based on the false premise that purchasing from a business is actually giving the money you pay to the owner of the business.

Having said that I didn't buy anything from Amazon this year.

Not out of any animus towards the proprietor but because I found good value elsewhere.

The Continental Op

Over a hundred orders this year and looking at the first few pages of orders the average order was about £25 so no way Amazon have had less than £2.5K from me this year and hopefully I'll be spending that much with them next year

LenWoods

I spent 2,783.22 on Amazon since October,
I got 176 euro worth of orders for free as they didn't arrive on time which enables the buyer to request a refund.
Saved on every item compared to purchase elsewhere where possible;
Have two teenagers and a child to provide Christmas for,
And a wife of course;
Was also useful to send presents directly to family members

billyhead

About 3 fiddy.

Shur he could do with a few quid..

blackbox

I need to know the percentage that goes to Bezos before I can do the poll.

I expect to be in the lowest category.

Tzardine

Interesting Jeff Bezos fact.

If you lodged $250,000 into your bank account every day since Jesus was (allegedly) born this night 2020 years ago, you would still be poorer than Jeff.

Think about that for a second.

Purple Mountain

elperello wrote: »

The thread is based on the false premise that purchasing from a business is actually giving the money you pay to the owner of the business.

Having said that I didn't buy anything from Amazon this year.

Not out of any animus towards the proprietor but because I found good value elsewhere.

What percentage does Amazon take?

Muppet Man

Tzardine wrote: »

Interesting Jeff Bezos fact.

If you lodged $250,000 into your bank account every day since Jesus was (allegedly) born this night 2020 years ago, you would still be poorer than Jeff.

Think about that for a second.

Holy crap... i had to check that... nuts...

Tzardine

Tzardine wrote: »

Interesting Jeff Bezos fact.

If you lodged $250,000 into your bank account every day since Jesus was (allegedly) born this night 2020 years ago, you would still be poorer than Jeff.

Think about that for a second.

With interest you'd surely have more..

Mister Vain

I saw an item on Amazon for 200 quid. The exact same item was a tenner on Alibaba.

Tzardine

Mister Vain wrote: »

The exact same item was a tenner on Alibaba.

Purple Mountain

Purple Mountain wrote: »

What percentage does Amazon take?

25%

Suckit

mickdw wrote: »

Id say zero in my case but nothibg at all against him.
Brilliant Business man who started from his shed.

.... and a loan of $250,000 in 1995.
Not saying we would all be as stinking rich, but having that as a startup option would sure make things a lot easier.

Amazon is a brilliant platform though.
I've spent a fair bit on it throughout the year.

Purple Mountain

Tzardine wrote: »

Maybe the guy comes with the rug on the Amazon site.

Tzardine

Deleted User wrote: »

With interest you'd surely have more..

True, but not for the first 1869 years. Banks were not paying deposit interest until then.

booferking

[Deleted User] wrote: »

25%

15% if your vat registered.

Deshawn

I own 3.9 Amazon shares

French Toast

Give or take €200. Amazon is handy.

Potential-Monke

Deshawn wrote: »

I own 3.9 Amazon shares

So close to $12k worth? Nice.

I try not to use it but it does have things that you would find hard to get elsewhere. I do like that suggestion above of checking if the seller has their own site, will try that in the future. We do have the extra issue of being a country at the edge of a continent, so some sellers won't ship here, and after a recent bad experience with Parcel Motel, I'm reluctant to use those types of services again.

ratracer

Probably a few grand. Why? Because I can look from the comfort of my sofa and have it delivered in a very quick timeframe, usually cheaper than trudging through town trying to find a similar product.

I don’t know if I’ll be ordering much from them in 2021 though, at least until I see what happens post Brexit.

basill

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMZN/amazon/net-profit-margin

Its a volume game. Net margins are single digit.

ahnowbrowncow

Tzardine wrote: »

Interesting Jeff Bezos fact.

If you lodged $250,000 into your bank account every day since Jesus was (allegedly) born this night 2020 years ago, you would still be poorer than Jeff.

Think about that for a second.

That's absolute nonsense, there weren't any banks back then.

AMKC

Not a thing and it's not because I have anything against him just nothing on the site I want and I find it to be clumsy as well. Much better sites elsewhere that have more of what I want and for better prices. My brother on the other hand spent a fortune I would say on it. Don't get me wrong I have bought things of it just not recently.

sdanseo

£3052.53 over 36 orders.

Over £2k of that was two orders, a new PC (parts) and a new iPhone which if retail was open I would have bought in CompuB.

I have no issues with Jeff's immense wealth or capitalism in general. It's a free market, he's played it well and it worked out for him. He should use the money to treat his workers better, but I don't think there could be many more laws compelling him to do so that aren't overreaching.

cee_jay

105 transactions on Amazon this year. So far... I will be buying 2 ebooks as gifts tomorrow morning.
I read a lot, and all my reading this year has been on my Kindle as the libraries have been closed or not accessible to me due to Covid. So a lot of those transactions were book purchases.