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Except it doesn't, not even remotely; there are dozens of other ways of buying things online, people just choose not to.
by Zetice 4y ago
Except it doesn't, not even remotely; there are dozens of other ways of buying things online, people just choose not to.
- freejazz 4y agoExcept the issue isn't whether there are "dozens of other ways of buying things online, people just choose not to" but whether Amazon's market share is so large as to prohibit anyone from being able to compete with it.
- Zetice 4y agoThat’s an obvious, “No”, as there are many competitors to Amazon…
- freejazz 4y agoI'm not aware of any but okay, if you insist
- Zetice 4y agoYou're not aware of other online retailers?
- freejazz 4y agoAmazon is more than an online retailer... Amazon sells ads on its marketplace. It also sells ads that integrate within its marketplace listings in a fashion that can be difficult to discern. It offers a fulfillment service that is integrated with its marketplace. It offers an integrated third party marketplace. These, are of course, facts. Whereas my initial response to was just the hypothetical point that you misunderstand how anti-trust law is applied. I don't think this has been much of a conversation seeing as how you are just being purposefully obtuse. It's clear you are making no efforts to come at this with good faith and I'm not going to bother any further otherwise.
- Zetice 4y agoSo… walmart.com? You can use outrage if you want, but the fact remains that Amazon has nothing even approaching a monopoly, not in the legal sense and not in any layperson sense. You’re kind of proving my point for me, that there’s no actual argument here, just general negative sentiment.
- freejazz 4y agoI didn't express negative sentiment, I listed a number of facts that distinguish Amazon from Walmart.
- Zetice 4y agoNone of those facts do that, as Walmart offers everything you listed. I just happen to live in AR and know a number of people who work on the relevant teams that do each of these things at Walmart, and given Walmart.com's growth in the last year, Amazon is far from the only company able to provide these services profitably. Is Amazon a competitor? Yes. Do they have a monopoly? Heck no.
- freejazz 4y agoOh wow, you conveniently know the exact people doing those exact things at Walmart but instead first made up that I expressed a negative sentiment. Yeah, okay.