That's probably exactly the phenomenon that the FTC is talking about in their complaint. Since Amazon punishes sellers who offer lower prices off of Amazon, sel

That's probably exactly the phenomenon that the FTC is talking about in their complaint. Since Amazon punishes sellers who offer lower prices off of Amazon, sellers are forced to use their Amazon price as their price floor. And since Amazon has huge market share and insanely high seller fees (upwards of 40%), then prices across the entire economy go up.