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Seems like 'Company gives preference to its own products on its own store' which is hardly surprising.
by yyy888sss 6y ago
Seems like 'Company gives preference to its own products on its own store' which is hardly surprising.
- MereInterest 6y agoCorrect, and this is why trustbusting is so important. Because "Company uses market advantage in one market to force competitors out of an unrelated market." is not a healthy long-term behavior to allow.
- tshaddox 6y agoI think “unrelated market” is a tough sell for this case. The two markets are “selling things” and...”selling things.” They’re pretty closely related.
- MereInterest 6y agoI think you are expanding the categories so much as to be useless. Selling books (Amazon's original market) is entirely unrelated from selling home security systems (Amazon Ring). Transportation/logistics (Amazon marketplace) is entirely unrelated from server space as a service (AWS).
- tshaddox 6y agoRight, but "selling basically any physical shippable goods" has long the primary business of Amazon.com.
- paxys 6y agoNo, the two markets are selling things and making things. If Amazon is the sole gatekeeper of getting something from a factory to a customer, it will naturally do everything in its power to boost its own factories and drive all others out of business.
- tshaddox 6y agoSo, no firm that makes things would be able to...sell things? That doesn’t sound very viable.
- josefresco 6y agoIt's a little more complicated than that as Amazon is also running a "marketplace" inside it's own store. Amazon isn't buying these products and reselling them like a traditional retailer, they are providing a marketplace for business and consumers.
- sokoloff 6y agoWhen Home Depot or Walmart buys a bunch of product with the right to return to the vendor any product that doesn't sell-through, is it really that bright-line different?
- josefresco 6y agoAs someone who has experience trying to "sell" a product to both Home Depot and Walmart no, it's not a bright line difference. I guess my point was that Amazon, and others like Apple like to argue both ways: "It's OUR store, we can deny anyone for anything." and "It's a MARKETPLACE, we can't be held liable for bad behavior or fraud!" The offline giants would love to have these same arguments.