You might literally be buying trash on Amazon

Re:You might literally be buying trash on Amazon by simias on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @12:54PM (#21816338)

Online commerce is a genuine improvement over "good old solutions" IMO, and Amazon used to be great at it. It's not like Uber or other startups who struggle to be profitable while effectively achieving popularity mostly by selling at a loss to kill the competition. Amazon clearly has a working business model that offers value over the brick-and-mortar shops of yore.

Amazon is hurting itself on purpose here, because of greed, not because their model is fundamentally flawed.

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Re:You might literally be buying trash on Amazon by agumonkey on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @01:05PM (#21816491)

I don't think the differences between Uber and Amazon are that large. Lack of regulation, constant growth. Sure Uber was toxically funded from the get go, but amazon now being a near monopoly enjoys letting the system roll without caring anymore.

Anyway, lesson learned.

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Re:You might literally be buying trash on Amazon by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @01:37PM (#21816967)

There are regulations, trademark law for one, the question is why don't enforcement teams act?

In the UK Trademark enforcement seems to be something only large companies get action on against very smalltime operators.

So, presumably it serves government aims not to enforce the laws, in this respect, that help citizens.

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