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Re:Amazon Is a Monopoly by laughinghan on Monday August 05, 2019 @08:47PM (#20620922)
What does "Amazon won't accept" mean? Doesn't Amazon just show the lowest price of all its current suppliers, and if the current lowest-priced supplier runs out, it shows the next lowest price?

(No fan of Amazon here, just trying to understand what you're saying.)

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Re:Amazon Is a Monopoly by lotyrin on Monday August 05, 2019 @08:57PM (#20620984)
I imagine this is a supplier (as in B2B, Amazon is negociating prices for buying bulk stock from them to sell on Amazon as Amazon), not a marketplace seller.
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Re:Amazon Is a Monopoly by hobofan on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @12:25PM (#20626653)
For marketplace sellers, yes that's the rough gist. There are however many more factors: seller rating, shipping speed, whether the fulfillment is done by Amazon, and a few hidden ones.

Source: Have built price optimization software for Amazon Marketplace sellers in the past

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