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Re:Amazon Blocks Sellers from Using FedEx Ground for Prime S... by mattrp on Monday December 16, 2019 @06:21PM (#21808659)
Are there any anti trust experts here that can comment on whether this constitutes illegal tying?
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Re:Amazon Blocks Sellers from Using FedEx Ground for Prime S... by bradleyjg on Monday December 16, 2019 @06:43PM (#21808827)
Only monopolies aren't allowed to utilize a tying strategy. Every other company is free to. Amazon hasn't been found to be a monopoly in any market AFAIK.
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Re:Amazon Blocks Sellers from Using FedEx Ground for Prime S... by mattrp on Monday December 16, 2019 @09:02PM (#21809771)
Yeah so I just was searching on that and saw this too... like they would need to be nearly 70% of a market for coercive strategies to be antitrust (although I take it % isn’t the only test). Hard to see how one would define a market where that would be true.
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