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Re:Amazon admits it exposed customer email addresses, but re... by guiambros on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @10:36PM (#18507701)
That is likely the model of many resellers on Amazon Marketplace. Some products are so cheap (including free shipping) that they must be making money by selling my information to direct marketers.

I recently started making up random names when buying from Amazon Marketplace, to see if I can spot a pattern of who's buying and who's selling databases. I'll know better in a few months...

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Re:Amazon admits it exposed customer email addresses, but re... by dvdbloc on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @11:15PM (#18507824)
Please report your findings. This sounds like great research.
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Re:Amazon admits it exposed customer email addresses, but re... by ikeboy on Thursday November 22, 2018 @01:09AM (#18508201)
Seems unlikely. What's more likely is people launch products at a loss in hopes of getting good reviews and expecting to be able to raise prices later. People are fine losing money for months to build up a product.

Could also be bad quality, liquidating goods on failed launches, etc

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