Amazon Is Accused of Forcing Up Prices in Antitrust Complaint

Re:Amazon Is Accused of Forcing Up Prices in Antitrust Compl... by michelpp on Friday November 08, 2019 @06:20PM (#21487961)

It seems like something they could easily verify: they know the exact location of the truck when the package is marked delivered. If it doesn't correlate with the delivery address then something is up. Another clue would be a bunch of packages marked delivered at the same time that don't have tightly clustered delivery locations.

I agree with you about performance metrics being gamed, wouldn't surprise me.

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Re:Amazon Is Accused of Forcing Up Prices in Antitrust Compl... by HankB99 on Friday November 08, 2019 @07:25PM (#21488481)

I get pictures of the delivery on my front porch. I wonder if that is to prove to me that the package was delivered or to prove to Amazon that the delivery person delivered. If the photos are taken with a cell phone app/camera they will be tagged with location and time which would be pretty difficult to falsify.

I don't always get these pictures so I suspect it is Amazon spot checking their delivery people.

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Re:Amazon Is Accused of Forcing Up Prices in Antitrust Compl... by irrational on Friday November 08, 2019 @08:45PM (#21488965)

I was getting these for awhile on every single delivery, then they stopped. I wonder why?

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Re:Amazon Is Accused of Forcing Up Prices in Antitrust Compl... by notduncansmith on Friday November 08, 2019 @08:53PM (#21489006)

I imagine the Ring acquisition has been helpful in that regard.

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