My wife worked for a publisher that had terms dictated to it by Amazon. Since then, we have not bought through Amazon. I got the hairy eyeball for ordering a $1

My wife worked for a publisher that had terms dictated to it by Amazon. Since then, we have not bought through Amazon. I got the hairy eyeball for ordering a $10-book through Alibris, and had to explain that I was not aware that Amazon had purchased it.