Jul 29, 2012 -- 9:58PM, Stardove wrote:

Is anyone going to boycott Amazon over this gift?

I'm going to go by a book from them. Probably this one: Wild (From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail)

Bravo for Amazon. I've had their Visa card for years and years. My daughter uses all my advantage points for things her teen children would like.

The Bezos' support is gratifiying.

That it was or needed to be accompanied by money is another sad commentary on American politics.

I understand that it is nothing but a counterbalance to $$$ spent on the right, and that in any money contest the left is bound to lose.

But I still find voting with the pocketbook objectionable (rather, I find the system that not only allows but requires this objectionable).

I've been taught several things about making money. Create a Market and Need even if you have to fool someone. You have to spend money to make money. Location, Location, Location. Timing is Everything. I think the Bezos' gift was rather for marketing genius and profit or else his "gift" would have come before Mr. Cathy's.

On the "flip side", if the Bezos' gift had come first and Mr. Cathy's second, then Mr. Cathy's statement would have been construed as "Retaliation" maybe? "Flip side" thinking?

I'm glad Mr. Cathy's statement has somehow and just out of the blue mind you, has just majically "spurned" the Bezos' into the great people they are (now) versus "no one knows who they were before". They once were just part of the dreadful 1%. 

If the Bezos' pass the plate around again, more "believers" will follow. While doing more "flip side" adventures, I've found if you look thru binoculars backwards, everything looks far away.  

They have the right to donate money to any cause they wish and their customers have every right to include that opinion when considering whether to patronise them. On this occasion, I happen to agree with their decision but I order from Amzon roughly monthly anyway.