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Re:Amazon is stuffing its search results pages with ads by jhall1468 on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @10:36PM (#17965188)
> The amount of price raised is almost certainly to be greater than what is deemed fair in these cases from the law of supply and demand.

That's not true. Price gouging is a term thrown around a lot, but generally it refers to drastically increasing prices when supply takes a sudden hit (due to natural disaster, often).

> verses spying on them in their own home and offering them products.

Spying on them? Are you joking? They are on Amazons website. How in the world is that spying? Man, more and more Hacker News is starting to sound like reddit.

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Re:Amazon is stuffing its search results pages with ads by dang on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @04:34AM (#18073942)
The parent comment stepped into incivility, but you've jumped into personal attack. We ban accounts that do that. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules from now on, we'd appreciate it.
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