Now We Know Why Things Are So Cheap At Amazon

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25034598

This is why I won't shop at Amazon. Its little better than slave labour. No unions as well, so nothing to stop Amazon getting away with this. Watch Panorama tonight.

[bednobs]

i am asking you to change my mind with the facts, but you don't seem to want to!

[RATTER15]

I ordered a new battery from Amazon for my Galaxy Note, it should have arrived by the 18th, I'm still waiting, apparently original Samsung battery and unused and cost £5.00, normally around £20.00.

[sherrardk]

Say ^ not meant.

[mikey4444]

I have nothing further to add bednobs...watch the program or not...its up to you.

If you can't be bothered, this BBC News website article might be of some help ::

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25034598

[Jeza]

I wanted a new TV. Currys wanted £500 ish. Argos wanted £470. Amazon wanted £410 with free delivery. Would you really pay more for the exact same TV? My answer to that is more fool you. I've worked hard for my money. If Amazon workers have to work hard too, so be it. would you employ a lazy person?

[sherrardk]

Mikey - am I now using invisible pixels?

[pixie373]

Ring 'em and complain, ratter. Lazy bu99ers;-)

I loved working outside, ummmm. Every day of the year (with horses), 6am to 7pm six days a week. Got paid less than a peanut, but was so healthy and happy.

[mikey4444]

sherrardk...receiving you loud and clear ! But it would seem that we came to different conclusions about Amazon and the program....surely something that we are both allowed to do ? Can't agree to disagree ?

[bednobs]

yes mikey, that's the same article i read this morning when you posted it (by the BBC, advertising a BBC program i notice)
The article i'm afraid does nothing to change my mind that, yes, this is a hard job, but so are many. Tax is just a red herring (see ratters first answer about marks and spencer)
i will have to draw my own conclusions about your reluctance to engage with me about what was shown in the program

[mikey4444]

Pixie...did you manage to pay your gas bill with that peanut ?

[ummmm]

I assume you're passionate about horses, Pixie?? I don't think he's too passionate about tarmac :-)

[sherrardk]

With Bednobs here, you seem to have a particular axe to grind. All I saw was people with non-fabulous jobs, that's life for 99% of the country.

[mikey4444]

bednobs...this is getting tedious. I have shown no lack of engaging with you...quite the opposite. Its entirely up to you if you watch the program or not.

[bednobs]

just tell me what was in it then that was so bad :)

[ChillDoubt]

Looks like I missed a programme about....well, nothing by the sounds of it. More licence payers money wasted.
Still, better that than on pay offs for Chief Execs etc.

Oh wait........

Had the programme been about Amazon's disgraceful tax dodging practices I could have understood, but that's a matter for the Government to close such loopholes.
As for the workers, if a 23 year old BBC undercover reporter/researcher is hobbling (his own words) after walking roughly 11 miles he needs to undertake some build-up training before he takes on his next exciting assignment, at our expense.

[pixie373]

That's very true, ummmm.
Mikey, this was years ago and half of it went on train fares. I just about managed to share rent and bills in the flat i was sharing, but did change jobs in the end, due to money.

[ummmm]

11 miles in 11 hours. 1 mile an hour...

[sherrardk]

They very conveniently showed the journalist running down a hill in the rain at the start of the programme (presumably to illustrate how fit and hardy he was) - then cut to him being knackered from doing a job that thousands of other people manage to do without whinging about.

[trt]

## I have little sympathy for the workers of Amazon. ##

Me too Ummmm.
No sympathy at all when I think of some of the jobs that people have to do in the UK eg:

Nurses in A&E on nights at W/End, cleaning blocked up sewers, up to your waist in sh1te, miners, Medics/ambulance crews scraping up body-parts of victims in road accidents, and motorway barrier repair gangs working through the night in all conditions, etc, etc!

[Khandro]

I suppose it didn't go without notice how fat and comfortable the trade-union spokesman looked, and also how the "concerned" professor appeared to look just fine in his UCL study, both on fat salaries and pensions, and neither capable of doing a hard days work.
It was a patronising effort by BBC overpaid pinkos attempting to appear concerned for the working classes, while profiting themselves from the making of the programme. I shall continue to buy from Amazon.