https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-reportedly-used-data-from-sellers-to-develop-competing-products/ https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-reportedly-used-data-from-s..

https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-reportedly-used-data-from-sellers-to-develop-competing-products/ https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-reportedly-used-data-from-s... Amazon regularly accesses their own platform's sales data to determine how to make competing products. I would not be surprised if this was the game everywhere else, though. Remember: physical retail invented a lot of the scummy business tactics we complain about with Amazon.