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Why can’t they just let adults buy and sell the way they want to? Would be nice but Amazon are quite keen on not letting that happen.
by EliRivers 3y ago
Why can’t they just let adults buy and sell the way they want to?
Would be nice but Amazon are quite keen on not letting that happen.
- lotsofpulp 3y agoAmazon has never stopped anyone from putting up a website and shipping things to customers.
- EliRivers 3y agoThey certainly have stopped people doing it at prices cheaper than they sell through Amazon. They're running a protection racket.
- dantheman 3y agoDon't sell on Amazon if you want to sell at a lower price, it's not that hard.
- EliRivers 3y agoIt's not hard at all. We can say the same about someone coming round to smash up your business if you don't give them money. Just give them money, it's not that hard. Just because something is easy doesn't make it okay.
- lotsofpulp 3y agoNonsense to equivocate someone not doing anything to you to someone damaging your property.
- EliRivers 3y agoCome up with whatever bullshit you like to fanboy Amazon as much as you need to. The facts don't care.
- Shish2k 3y agohttps://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/07/emails-detail-amazons-plan-to-crush-a-startup-rival-with-price-cuts/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/07/emails-detail-am...
- lotsofpulp 3y agoGood example, dumping in this manner should be illegal if all the allegations are true.
- mcenedella 3y agoHow’s that? Amazon is lobbying for legislation to prevent you from purchasing from someone?
- EliRivers 3y agoThey don't need to. They have such a big chunk of the market that if you don't sell how THEY want you to, you lose access to a huge chunk of the market. That's the problem. That's the complaint. That sellers who want to sell to buyers who want to buy are forced to do it how Amazon states, for the benefit of Amazon, which means the seller has to put their prices up to cover Amazon's Danegeld, but then may NOT also sell elsewhere at the lower, non-Danegeld price.