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How is this surprising, given that Amazon is a privately owned, profit driven company?

• bkor 10y ago
  Two quotes: 1. "Amazon doesn’t count shipping costs for its own products, or those it fulfills for others, when customers rank a product by “price + shipping.”" 2. "Amazon said: [..]The sorting algorithms [..] are designed for that 90% of items ordered, where shipping costs do not apply.”" This is not just misleading, this is a step beyond. It's a big company, it should take care of its customers and if it does not, customer protection agencies should go after it.
  • ceejayoz 10y ago
    It's really not surprising that Amazon's algorithm takes "of course you'd want Prime" into the calculations.