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> A law like this would have to be applied to them as well. You say it as if that was a bad thing. More competition is good for the consumer, bad for the oligo
by luckylion 7y ago
> A law like this would have to be applied to them as well.
You say it as if that was a bad thing. More competition is good for the consumer, bad for the oligopolists.
- vntok 7y agoBut Amazon launching new products is strictly more competition, so...
- luckylion 7y agoSimilarly how Microsoft launching Internet Explorer to beat Netscape and eat another Market was technically more competition (for a while, until they've established another monopoly and all competition ceases).
- toasterlovin 7y agoOn the contrary, house brand products are great for consumers. Rather than having to figure out if they can trust a brand for a product category that they really don't care about, they can just buy the house brand knowing that a certain minimum level of quality exists. This is why Amazon Basics products are so popular on Amazon: consumers know that, at the very least, Amazon can be sued, a form of recourse that is not available with most of the smaller brands and sellers on their platform.
- beamatronic 7y agoThis is me. I bought an AmazonBasics product initially, a phone cable, thinking it would be crap. It wasn't. So I bought another one, a set of HDMI cables. They weren't crap either! Then I bought AmazonBasics wash cloths as a joke. They were quite nice! Now I find myself shopping around the AmazonBasics section first. I still find it amusing in a "Spaceballs, the flamethrower!" kind of way.
- odysseus 7y agoWhere IS the AmazonBasics section? Is there a way to restrict searches to only Amazon white label products?
- beamatronic 7y agoI see it as a tab at the top