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No. And I would expect anti monopoly laws legislation to outlaw this in any halfway civilised country (altho I wouldn't hold out much hope for America). "The t
by TheRealSteel 7y ago
No. And I would expect anti monopoly laws legislation to outlaw this in any halfway civilised country (altho I wouldn't hold out much hope for America).
"The toaster oven will only accept certain co-branded bread and other marked-up food products: any attempts to cook other food will throw an error message; “Unauthorized Bread.”"
Barely fiction: Keurig, Juicero.
- ggggtez 7y agoAssuming it was in the form of: You pay the total value in rent, and each month $500 is added to your amazon balance (I'm assuming that's how such a plan would feasibly work in practice)... then, yeah sure. Of course, the devil is in the details, but taking the deal just at face value, yeah it's profitable why wouldn't you do it? Even if you bought stuff you didn't need, but you could resell later for a 20% loss after fees, that's still essentially a free $400 a month just for holding onto some merchandise in your closet temporarily. That's probably worth it for most people.
- kwhitefoot 7y agoMinus the value of the time it costs you to sell the goods.
- mtgx 7y agoWhen companies have too much money that they start going wildly outside of their core market and product this is how you know they are a monopoly. In an ideal market their competition in the core market should keep them focused on that market and striving to offer increasingly better value and quality for their core product, not chasing wild gooses with all the billions they got from their monopoly.