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This is what is new: > A trove of internal Amazon documents reveals how the e-commerce giant ran a systematic campaign of creating knockoff goods and manipulat

This is what is new: > A trove of internal Amazon documents reveals how the e-commerce giant ran a systematic campaign of creating knockoff goods and manipulating search results to boost its own product lines in India - practices it has denied engaging in. And at least two top Amazon executives reviewed the strategy. As far as I understand, those documents were not known before.

ProAm 5y ago
But everyone on earth knew this what was happening. If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck...
- minitoar 5y ago
  Yes, but we hadn’t yet seen the duckumentation. …I’ll see myself out.
- aembleton 5y ago
  I guess some people are more convinced by evidence than just knowing things.
  - z3ncyberpunk 5y ago
    Yes... Because the Panama, Paradise, and Pandora papers proves that.. give me a break
  - uoaei 5y ago
    Some people create unreasonable doubt where Occam's razor states things quite clearly.
- lbriner 5y ago
  I don't think that argument would stand up in Court!
somethoughts 5y ago
What I find interesting and somewhat unfair is the practice of allowing Amazon marketplace resellers to list every product of every other brand (even Costco snd Target house brands) EXCEPT Amazon brands. So really every other brand has to contend with counterfeit or at least pricing arbitraged products being listed against their brand on Amazon, except Amazon. That seems to give Amazon a monopoly driven upper hand and is materially different from what other marketplace platform players are doing. To be a fair and transparent marketplace platform and avoid anti-trust litigation - Amazon should be allow resellers to price gouge and counterfeit Amazon brands as well. [1] Kirkland and Target T-shirt on Amazon available from a variety of price gougers and potential counterfeiters https://www.amazon.com/Kirkland-Signature-Mens-White-Large/dp/B005O33LJA https://www.amazon.com/Kirkland-Signature-Mens-White-Large/d... https://www.amazon.com/Goodfellow-Co-Standard-Lyndale-T-Shirt/dp/B086MH568M https://www.amazon.com/Goodfellow-Co-Standard-Lyndale-T-Shir... [2] Amazon Essentials T-shirt on Amazon only available from - you guessed it - Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Essentials-Regular-Fit-T-Shirt-Charcoal/dp/B07F1BMB37/ https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Essentials-Regular-Fit-T-Shirt...

ProAm 5y ago

But everyone on earth knew this what was happening. If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck...

minitoar 5y ago
Yes, but we hadn’t yet seen the duckumentation. …I’ll see myself out.
aembleton 5y ago
I guess some people are more convinced by evidence than just knowing things.
- z3ncyberpunk 5y ago
  Yes... Because the Panama, Paradise, and Pandora papers proves that.. give me a break
- uoaei 5y ago
  Some people create unreasonable doubt where Occam's razor states things quite clearly.
lbriner 5y ago
I don't think that argument would stand up in Court!

somethoughts 5y ago

What I find interesting and somewhat unfair is the practice of allowing Amazon marketplace resellers to list every product of every other brand (even Costco snd Target house brands) EXCEPT Amazon brands. So really every other brand has to contend with counterfeit or at least pricing arbitraged products being listed against their brand on Amazon, except Amazon. That seems to give Amazon a monopoly driven upper hand and is materially different from what other marketplace platform players are doing. To be a fair and transparent marketplace platform and avoid anti-trust litigation - Amazon should be allow resellers to price gouge and counterfeit Amazon brands as well. [1] Kirkland and Target T-shirt on Amazon available from a variety of price gougers and potential counterfeiters https://www.amazon.com/Kirkland-Signature-Mens-White-Large/dp/B005O33LJA https://www.amazon.com/Kirkland-Signature-Mens-White-Large/d... https://www.amazon.com/Goodfellow-Co-Standard-Lyndale-T-Shirt/dp/B086MH568M https://www.amazon.com/Goodfellow-Co-Standard-Lyndale-T-Shir... [2] Amazon Essentials T-shirt on Amazon only available from - you guessed it - Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Essentials-Regular-Fit-T-Shirt-Charcoal/dp/B07F1BMB37/ https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Essentials-Regular-Fit-T-Shirt...