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Re:Canada seeks to end Uber's tax advantage over taxi companies by ribosometronome on Thursday March 23, 2017 @04:29PM (#13943946)
When you buy a book from a seller on Amazon, who sets the price?
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Re:Canada seeks to end Uber's tax advantage over taxi companies by thaumasiotes on Thursday March 23, 2017 @05:13PM (#13944346)
Just as you'd expect if Amazon was a physical bookstore - the store sets the price. Did you think authors were employees of Barnes and Noble?
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Re:Canada seeks to end Uber's tax advantage over taxi companies by jdmichal on Friday March 24, 2017 @02:36PM (#13951126)
That wasn't the question.

> When you buy a book from a seller on Amazon, who sets the price?

The answer is that the seller always sets the price. Sometimes the seller is Amazon itself, and other times it's not.

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Re:Canada seeks to end Uber's tax advantage over taxi companies by Anderkent on Thursday March 23, 2017 @04:44PM (#13944078)
Very often Amazon
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