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A comment on Amazon's new refunds policy will 'crush' small businesses, outraged sellers say. Parent comment

Re:Amazon's new refunds policy will 'crush' small businesses... by frgtpsswrdlame on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @12:09PM (#14911738)
>If you want to get to determine the rules of the game, you have to build your own playing field.

Amazon is basically a monopoly, I'd like to know how you imagine a small business competing against them. And why should a small shoe/fidget-spinner/alibaba-reselling business need to build their own shopping website anyways? "Platforms" should be free.

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Re:Amazon's new refunds policy will 'crush' small businesses... by ghostly_s on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @12:16PM (#14911821)
How are they a monopoly exactly? I can google "<Product name> for sale" easily enough.
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Re:Amazon's new refunds policy will 'crush' small businesses... by frgtpsswrdlame on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @12:27PM (#14911959)
Look at it from the other direction. Little moves by them, like what's described in the article, can kill off all sorts of small businesses. How else would that be possible without extreme amounts of market power?
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