Re:Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch com...
by sebwi on Thursday April 23, 2020 @11:31AM
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Well, because marketplaces like Amazon have a strategy for that: learn from sellers, imitate their products, offer your imitated product prominently on your "neutral" marketplace and crush the competition with a lower price until they have to give up or let themselves be bought [1]. That's nothing really new. The difference with Amazon is just the scale.
[1] https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/amazon-doesnt-just...