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What I hate here more than anything else is the bait-and-switch and bundling tactics. If Amazon had just had video-on-demand where you would pay for video and
by andrewla 3y ago
What I hate here more than anything else is the bait-and-switch and bundling tactics.
If Amazon had just had video-on-demand where you would pay for video and be able to watch it, that would have been fine. But they bundled it together with Prime and offered all sorts of free or discounted content instead.
Now they're jacking up the price.
This sort of tactic, of eliminating the competition through steep discounting and then raising the prices once you have a foothold is exactly the sort of thing that antitrust law was designed to handle, and even in the "customer harm" framing of it this seems like a clear violation.
- toss1 3y agoOn top of that, while it's "Prime Video" supposedly included with our Prime subscriptions, most of the content requires extra payment, and in non-trivial amounts, or subscription to another channel (Paramount, Britbox, etc.). Adding adverts is enough that we'll just dump them off the Roku device list. Enshittification in action, right before our eyes.
- ncr100 3y agoSub-Prime video. Now customers pay double for Prime Video. Is this incorrect?