Amazon is adding a 5% fuel and inflation surcharge

Amazon to charge a new fee for fuel and inflation. (Insert Joe Biden I did that sticker here)


Biden in in a race with Jimmy Carter on who can be the worst President in recent history. When do we get the gas lines and 5 gallon limits?


edition.cnn.com...

Amazon said Wednesday that for the first time in company history it will charge sellers a 5% fuel and inflation surcharge.

The e-commerce giant said the new fee will begin April 28 and is being imposed because inflation has worsened significantly in recent months.

The fee hike is the latest example of how businesses are reacting to spiking energy and other costs. Uber and Lyft recently began tacking on temporary fuel surcharges to rides and airlines have been raising airfare.

Suppliers sharply raised prices by 11.2% in March, the most on records that go back to 2010, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Wednesday. Consumer prices spiked by 8.5% year-over-year in March, the biggest jump since 1981.

Maybe the beginning or maybe the beginning of the end.

a reply to: infolurker

Uber has been doing that for a few weeks now...

a reply to: infolurker

If these "sellers" raise their prices by more than 5%, Biden will punish them for gouging!

Fuel prices are fine though fellas. That’s what the talking heads keep saying.

Even if they weren’t, which they are, just buy a Tesla. What do you mean you can’t afford a 70,000 dollar car?

Don’t worry, corn-based ethanol fuel will solve all!

a reply to: infolurker

Recent? Not all time?

So Amazon isn't making enough money?

Tax the # out of them please. Prices are going up whether or not we tax them, so why not tax them?

The bottom line is, it doesn't matter if people are being squeezed, they know they can squeeze them more.

All I see here is greedy corporations who are making more money than ever, but need to raise prices.

I do however have a choice, and that might be my local stores instead of Amazon. So Amazon, if you raise your prices too high, I will say goodbye.

I've already stopped buying from Amazon mostly. And I'm no longer going to pay for PRIME. Too much for what I get out of it now.

a reply to: infolurker

We have to deal with inflation and higher gas prices too. Why should we pay for their hit on top of our own hit? Amazon has been getting worse and worse for a while now. Screw em.

originally posted by: infolurker
Insert Joe Biden I did that sticker here

Except we know that this isn't true because fuel inflation started under Trump and is directly related to the supply chain disruption caused when companies started back up after lockdown. As evidenced by the fact that this is a global phenomena, not a local one.

This has been further exasperated by market uncertainty caused by Ukraine. Which, may I remind you started under Obama, and continued under Trump.

originally posted by: sine.nomine
a reply to: infolurker

We have to deal with inflation and higher gas prices too. Why should we pay for their hit on top of our own hit? Amazon has been getting worse and worse for a while now. Screw em.

The ability to transfer increases in price to customers is a core component of capitalism and a free market economy. The alternative is SOCIALISM where companies aren't allowed to se their own prices and can't pass on cost increases or decreases to consumers.

If you don't like this then move to China.

originally posted by: AaarghZombies

originally posted by: sine.nomine
a reply to: infolurker

We have to deal with inflation and higher gas prices too. Why should we pay for their hit on top of our own hit? Amazon has been getting worse and worse for a while now. Screw em.

The ability to transfer increases in price to customers is a core component of capitalism and a free market economy. The alternative is SOCIALISM where companies aren't allowed to se their own prices and can't pass on cost increases or decreases to consumers.

If you don't like this then move to China.

A bit hostile today, eh bud? Of course they have the right. It doesn't mean the company hasn't been going down hill in service and fees. Prime membership is a scam, they treat their employees like trash, they're adding fees, etc. They're all around an unethical corporation.

originally posted by: AaarghZombies

originally posted by: infolurker
Insert Joe Biden I did that sticker here

Except we know that this isn't true because fuel inflation started under Trump and is directly related to the supply chain disruption caused when companies started back up after lockdown. As evidenced by the fact that this is a global phenomena, not a local one.

This has been further exasperated by market uncertainty caused by Ukraine. Which, may I remind you started under Obama, and continued under Trump.

except you haven't a clue about the big picture. Gas prices started to rise when the election happened, and Biden had told the world many times, that he was going to end fossil fuels.
www.statista.com...
notice the sharp rise at election time.

Ask those in the business what happened and why. Or believe what the White House tells you.

a reply to: sine.nomine

You bet that I'm hostile, I'm defending freedom. You're proposing government control.

a reply to: network dude

Gas prices started to rise when it looked like Trump was going to win, and again when he challenged the elections and it looked like he might overturn them?

Yes, I see how Biden caused this.

Did he also cause the prices to rise in China and Europe as well?

originally posted by: AaarghZombies
a reply to: sine.nomine

You bet that I'm hostile, I'm defending freedom. You're proposing government control.

I don't see how you could get that from my post. Disapproving of Amazon is a far cry from proposing government control. All I said was we're all dealing with inflation. Amazon isn't selling the products. The prices are rising anyway from the companies selling over Amazon. I'm saying inflation is a dumb excuse to charge extra when we're all paying extra already.

Wow, always trying to find a way to make money out of the consumer, first it was the covid charge on restaurants and other business, now they are cashing on the fuel crisis created by the senile biden administration.

I guess I will have to go back to old bargain shopping in person.

originally posted by: sine.nomine
A bit hostile today, eh bud? Of course they have the right. It doesn't mean the company hasn't been going down hill in service and fees. Prime membership is a scam, they treat their employees like trash, they're adding fees, etc. They're all around an unethical corporation.

Have you been visiting union sites again?

How's come Amazon keeps getting voted as one of the best places to work if they "treat their employees like trash"?

People should go to the store and buy their stuff, quit stuffing amazons pockets!!

a reply to: vonclod

Amazon is full of nothing but china's trash, a lot of complain with the fake items, sold as originals, I love to read the comments and reviews, that's where you see what people are getting.