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Re:Amazon Is Quietly Eliminating List Prices by r00fus on Tuesday July 05, 2016 @01:31AM (#12034554)
Is that their goal? To ultimately outcompete all their suppliers with an inhouse brand? How utterly banal.

I remember a recent article about Rain, Inc (I had one of their beautiful 2006 iMac stands) and how Amazon essentially cut their price in half offering the same product with an Amazon logo instead.

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Re:Amazon Is Quietly Eliminating List Prices by tluyben2 on Tuesday July 05, 2016 @02:38AM (#12034747)
How can you trust a retailer like Amazon though: they are not only an e-commerce saas, they are a retailer themselves so obviously for anything they see a market they will just offer themselves. They can use the data from 3rd party sellers as market research for free (actually they get paid for their research!).
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Re:Amazon Is Quietly Eliminating List Prices by r00fus on Tuesday July 05, 2016 @02:57AM (#12034803)
You can't but you have little choice as Amazon rules online retail. Think Wal-Mart in the 2000s.
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