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Re:Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch com... by dubcanada on Thursday April 23, 2020 @11:50AM (#22957259)
You're focused to much on Amazon. Every company does this just go to your local Walmart, everything is white-label. A law like this would have to be applied to them as well.
Re:Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch com... by luckylion on Thursday April 23, 2020 @11:58AM (#22957351)
> A law like this would have to be applied to them as well.

You say it as if that was a bad thing. More competition is good for the consumer, bad for the oligopolists.

Re:Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch com... by toasterlovin on Thursday April 23, 2020 @12:28PM (#22957728)
On the contrary, house brand products are great for consumers. Rather than having to figure out if they can trust a brand for a product category that they really don't care about, they can just buy the house brand knowing that a certain minimum level of quality exists. This is why Amazon Basics products are so popular on Amazon: consumers know that, at the very least, Amazon can be sued, a form of recourse that is not available with most of the smaller brands and sellers on their platform.
Re:Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch com... by beamatronic on Thursday April 23, 2020 @12:53PM (#22958044)
This is me. I bought an AmazonBasics product initially, a phone cable, thinking it would be crap. It wasn't. So I bought another one, a set of HDMI cables. They weren't crap either! Then I bought AmazonBasics wash cloths as a joke. They were quite nice! Now I find myself shopping around the AmazonBasics section first. I still find it amusing in a "Spaceballs, the flamethrower!" kind of way.
Re:Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch com... by odysseus on Thursday April 23, 2020 @02:26PM (#22959228)
Where IS the AmazonBasics section? Is there a way to restrict searches to only Amazon white label products?
Re:Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch com... by beamatronic on Thursday April 23, 2020 @04:31PM (#22960950)
I see it as a tab at the top
Re:Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch com... by vntok on Thursday April 23, 2020 @12:25PM (#22957688)
But Amazon launching new products is strictly more competition, so...
Re:Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch com... by luckylion on Thursday April 23, 2020 @01:14PM (#22958275)
Similarly how Microsoft launching Internet Explorer to beat Netscape and eat another Market was technically more competition (for a while, until they've established another monopoly and all competition ceases).