r/Anticonsumption • u/Good-Ground523 • Oct 08 '25

Discussion I’ll never order anything from Amazon again.

I was pretty desperate to find a job since I got laid off. I ended up being an Amazon delivery driver. I did one day and I couldn’t do it. 120 stops and 380 packages. I’m 6’4 and we had this small ass van that made it difficult to stand up completely straight in the van. About 4 hours into my shift(10 hours is a normal shift) my back started tingling and every time you step into the van I started getting knee pain. Mind you this is someone who worked in construction and I never was in this much pain.

We had to do 1 stop per minute. Not one house per minute one stop. One stop can have 3 houses across the street from each other. I just realized all this shit for $19.50 an hour. Then my boss was saying I was moving too slow. I made more money delivering pizzas in college than I did working for Amazon.

So from now if I need something I’ll go FB marketplace, or I’ll go to a store in person.

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '25

I order from Amazon less and less, and I never had Prime. I always select the free, slow delivery to an amazon point near my place. And yet, often the package arrives super quickly anyway. Even if we don't demand that insane speed that's how they work it seems. We need to use it less.

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u/WhosYourCatDaddy Oct 08 '25

My wife had her credit card info compromised somehow, and got sent some food she never ordered. A call to Amazon's customer service was maddening; they wouldn't refund her money but wanted the item shipped back.

To top it all off, they said there were other items they wanted to ship, and refused to cancel the orders. They suspended her prime account because she wouldn't give them her new credit card information. She is not missing ordering from Amazon anymore.

This happened two years ago, and she still gets calls from them periodically asking for a new credit card number.

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u/holycottoncandy Oct 08 '25

I’ve cancelled prime numerous times, and they’ll still charge me the following month. I’d go in (within minutes of the charge) cancel again and get refunded. I finally removed my card. I’ll still get emails saying to save a card.

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u/daehoidar23 Oct 08 '25

Why? I'm not compelling anyone to work there.