Just gonna end up making it harder for the rest of us to return our crap. This is an organized theft setup, not some random Joe trying to get a heater for the winter because his furnace gave out.
Like the other person said, I never said Amazon was a saint. And guess what: stuff breaks. It happens. Returns are necessary. Making them even harder to do helps nobody. I wish decent brick and mortar stores weren't getting stomped on too, but this approach to "fighting the man" isn't going to have the effect you think it will.
Avoidance is not evasion, and equating it with stealing in this context is fruitless.
One could claim it is legalized theft via political corruption, but Amazon alone did not write the rules, and it does not seem relevant to a situation where businesses have to change policies/increase prices/reduce offerings due to theft.
Refusing to give you something of mine is not taking something of yours.
There would also be less refusal in the first place if taxes were actually proportional to the percentage of public services you use, but some people are against paying their fair share.
> but some people are against paying their fair share.
You're right, but you also left it as an exercise to the reader about who the "some people" are. Those "some people" are mostly large corporate entities, like Amazon, that do all sorts of tricks to keep their losses inside the US and their gains outside the US so they can avoid paying taxes on income that was made from US consumers. While I'm more anti-tax than the average person, it's important to understand that anything which sends US consumer spending outside the US en masse is ultimately a detriment to the US society because it enriches other countries while depriving the US of that money continue to flow through the economic cycle. Dead money sitting in accounts in Ireland, Cayman Islands, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Macau reduce the velocity of money in the US and directly contribute to economic slowdowns as well as increasing income inequality within the US society.
It's the biggest reason why, despite being relatively anti-tax, I'm also very much pro buying things made in the US, locally if possible, because it's important that a dollar coming into the community gets spent many times over in the same community to actually improve community welfare. As soon as that dollar exits the community, it's likely lost.
The fair share is proportional to your use of the service. That’s means the USPS model, not the income tax model. Many people are against adopting the USPS model for other public services because they do not want to pay their fair share.
