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umtalal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 10:53 AM
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Is Amazon a red company?
Wasn't there a list of blue and red companies? Can someone link me to the list,please?
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trotsky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 10:54 AM
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1. I remember that they are indeed red.
Edited on Wed Jan-05-05 10:54 AM by trotsky
Use Barnes & Noble instead!

Someone will post the Blue Companies links shortly...
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Verve Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 10:56 AM
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5. Really? My initial thought is that they're Blue! At least it seems like
they have alot of liberal employees.
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murielm99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 10:55 AM
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2. They gave 60% to repukes, 40 to Democrats.
Barnes and Noble gave 98% to Democrats.

No link, sorry. I read it in the SF Chronicle, though.

I hope someone posts a link soon.
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Burma Jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 10:55 AM
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3. Amazon is a little Blue, thank you very much...............n/t
Edited on Wed Jan-05-05 10:57 AM by new_beawr
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noamnety Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 10:55 AM
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4. choose the blue
http://www.choosetheblue.com/main.php

Amazon is purple: 58% donations went to dems.
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mattclearing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 10:58 AM
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8. Interesting. I heard the 60/40 split thing too.
Read it in an article, not sure if it was the Chronicle.

If that figure is wrong, I will have to start shopping there again.

I'm still annoyed that they plan to destroy Netflix, though.
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umtalal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 11:00 AM
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10. they are after Netflix? How are they going to do that?
Netflix was my outlet after giving birth. Oh, no.
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mattclearing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 11:07 AM
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17. There's a lot of info at Motley Fool about this, and a recent USA Today
Edited on Wed Jan-05-05 11:09 AM by tasteblind
feature on Jeff Bezos bears it out. They already have the customer base to do it, and the postal infrastructure. Bezos thinks they can undercut Netflix's prices pretty easily.

I wrote a paper on this recently. It's for real. I'll edit to link it in a bit.

Edit: Actually, it looks like they've opted to bump Netflix from opening in the UK first. Hadn't heard this yet.

http://news.google.com/news?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2003-47,GGLD:en&q=bezos+netflix
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noamnety Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 11:05 AM
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14. You can search a company name
http://www.choosetheblue.com/main.php has a spot where you can type in a company, on the left. That's where I got 58% from for amazon.

Or you can go to http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/index.asp and type in amazon for the occupation, select an election cycle, and find the specific donations.
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umtalal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 11:09 AM
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19. thanks for the links. The least I can do is stick to my blue. Love it. n/t
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Verve Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 11:05 AM
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13. Great sight! Thanks for the info! n/t
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floridadem30 Donating Member (525 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 11:06 AM
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15. Thanks for the link, now I can shop somewhere besides bed, bath, & beyond
and Barnes and Noble.
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barbaraann Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 10:57 AM
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6. Bill O'Reilly has led boycotts against amazon.
I'd call them blue.
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secedeeconomically Donating Member (380 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 10:57 AM
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7. What ever they are, their service sucks
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mattclearing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 10:59 AM
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9. That I don't buy. As a longtime customer, I have to say they've always
done great by me.
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Burma Jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 11:03 AM
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12. I have also had excellent experiences with Amazon
When a shipment has been damaged, or delivery delayed, I have always received a prompt and courteous refund.......
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Ravenseye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 11:02 AM
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11. How bout supporting a local store instead of a corporation?
Just a thought. Instead of ordering your book or CD online at Amazon or Barnes and Noble go to a real store.

Instead of going to a Barnes and Noble or a Tower records, go to a locally owned indpendent store.

Sure you might pay 21 bucks for that DVD that might cost 18 at Best Buy, or 15 at Amazon including shipping, but at least you're supporting your community.
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umtalal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 11:06 AM
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16. You are right. I was part of a net work of independent stores.
I should go back to that.
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Verve Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 11:08 AM
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18. What do you do if you live in a small town where your "local" bookstore
displays a cross and religious paraphernalia in the window?

I'd rather order online. Thank you!
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Ravenseye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 11:14 AM
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21. Heh, then order online from a smaller company...
..it's a little harder than ordering from Amazon but you can still do it. Lots of smaller bookstores can be called up and they'll ship you want you want. A few years ago I had to search for an out of print childrens book that my wife loved. Amazon was no use. I did a book search through a used book store, and they found a copy...I forget where, but they shipped it to me.

Anyway...thats hard, and you can't do that for everything. If you live in the middle of nowhere with no stores, or with just a little local bookstore like that...sure order online. It beats shopping at Wal Mart.

For the majority of people though shopping local is good advice. Where I live you pass by at least 5 places locally owned you can buy a DVD to get to the Best Buy. Why not just go to one of those stores?
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Verve Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 11:40 AM
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24. Good point! Our town and county businesses are starting to get the
hint that they need to change their act if they want more business. I think they are losing close to 90 million because people are going out of our county to shop.
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dubyaD40web Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 11:14 AM
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20. Here's a good article I dug up for you
Amazon.com Is For Republicans
Attention, liberal shoppers! Next year, screw those GOP-supportin' companies, and try buying blue


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2004/12/22/notes122204.DTL
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umtalal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 11:18 AM
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22. Thanks, I will spread the word. Very important to do that. n/t
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umtalal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 11:24 AM
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23. I want to read "what's the matter with kansas?" any one read it?
the article mentioned it.
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Verve Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 11:45 AM
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25. I think Amazon employees need to rally! I doubt if 60% of them are
Repugs. They are waaaay liberal, especially in their Seattle offices where Amazon was founded.
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kath Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-05-05 02:39 PM
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26. Barnes and Noble is VERY blue -- I ordered from them at Christmas
time, instead of Amazon, after I found this out at buyblue.org.
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