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That's an interesting thought to compare such things to traditional brick-and-mortar situations. A store that dominates its market tends to cause competing sto
by talmand 9y ago
That's an interesting thought to compare such things to traditional brick-and-mortar situations.
A store that dominates its market tends to cause competing stores to close. Which creates the problem in that customers get fewer choices in stores to buy products. This would create the possibility that a dominate store would take steps to cause the competition to shut down; such as price dumping or other unethical things.
But that problem doesn't happen on the web. There's absolutely nothing Amazon could do to prevent Google from selling their product on their own site. I mean, price dumping could still be an issue but it seems no one considers that one anymore. So how can it be proven that Amazon is anti-competitive by refusing to sell a product on their site that competes directly with one of their products sold on their site? Especially when the competitor has no barrier created by Amazon to prevent them from selling the product on their own site?
After all, to be fair, shouldn't I be able to purchase an Amazon product on Google's site?