> Is Amazon crawling other market places to check seller prices against their site? I didn't sell directly on Amazon for long enough to find out, but from talk

> Is Amazon crawling other market places to check seller prices against their site? I didn't sell directly on Amazon for long enough to find out, but from talking to other merchants, I understand that they were/are doing this. IMO, even if the merchants enter into those terms willingly, it's still anticompetitive. Amazon is effectively creating a protectionist trade zone like the British used to enact in the 1760s and 1770s. The merchants enter into it because the alternative is "don't trade with a huge portion of the market" and also maybe face predatory attacks from Amazon-friendly merchants.