Deinfluencing Amazon (Watch Before You Buy)
Frugal Friends Podcast
Jen Smith & Jill Sirianni | Backyard Ventures
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Amazon Prime Day is coming, and so is the temptation to click "Buy Now." But before another pile of packages lands on your doorstep, Jen and Jill uncover what's really going on behind Amazon. From fake reviews and low-quality products to questionable deals and memberships, this episode explores why Amazon may no longer be the frugal shopper's best friend.
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| 0:30.5 | De-influencing Amazon. Listen before you buy. |
| 0:39.3 | Welcome to the frugal Friends podcast, where you'll learn to save money, embrace simplicity, and live a rich |
| 0:47.1 | life. |
| 0:49.0 | Here are your host, Jen and Jill. |
| 0:55.2 | Welcome, Frugal Friends. I'm Jen. I'm Jill. And Amazon Prime Day is upon us. It is in June this year |
| 1:03.8 | instead of July. And who am I getting? It's not a day. It's pretty much summer. It's |
| 1:10.6 | Amazon Prime summer. |
| 1:12.7 | But before you buy anything, I would like to remind you that Amazon Prime Day is not really a |
| 1:18.9 | savings event anymore. It's a behavioral trap built on urgency, convenience, and the assumption |
| 1:24.4 | that Amazon is still the cheapest, fastest, safest place to buy. |
| 1:28.4 | The evidence suggests all three assumptions are weaker than ever. |
| 1:33.9 | I had to read that one because it was chock full of some salacious content. |
| 1:40.3 | But don't just take our word for it. |
| 1:42.3 | Check these people out. |
| 2:18.4 | I definitely shop on Amazon, so don't get me wrong, but I have been so sick of, like, the quality that comes in for things. I'm planning my son's birthday party, and I just bought paper plates from there. I made sure they were, like, the plastic ones. It literally said, like, heavy duty. And some of the reviews, like, now that I'm thinking about it, they're definitely fake. Like there's no way. Everyone was like heavy duty like I was gonna wash the food off of this because like I was gonna reuse them. They're great. They're great. They literally came in. They looked like the thinest, thinest, thinest, thinest, thinest, thinest, thinest, thinest, thinest, thinest,nest thinnest thin as be like when you picked them up they were like bent does anyone want to take a guess |
| 2:24.0 | as to what is on the bottom of this shirt um i go to open the aquifor it's like the amazon |
| 2:31.3 | brand of aquifor but like the outer package it was in was like clearly for something different. |
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