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Re:Ebay will match Amazon’s, Walmart’s and others’ prices on... by Nightshaxx on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @09:28AM (#14603557)
Because not only can advertise your price matching feature and get more customers, but you charge your normal prices to the 90% of people who don't bother to price match.

Basically you can have your cake and eat it too. (To some extent)

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Re:Ebay will match Amazon’s, Walmart’s and others’ prices on... by frgtpsswrdlame on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @09:31AM (#14603594)
Doesn't that seem like some form of tacit collusion though? In this case it seems the price match flips the competitive environment so that competitors raise prices instead of lowering them.
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