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Re:Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch com... by mtone on Thursday April 23, 2020 @12:09PM (#22957479)
Isn't that collusion?
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Re:Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch com... by vntok on Thursday April 23, 2020 @12:31PM (#22957772)
Companies enter into agreements all the time, not all of it is necessarily collusion.

The Amazon Basics company could buy some market information or behavioural stats from the Amazon Dotcom company at a rather steep price, for example.

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Re:Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch com... by hanniabu on Thursday April 23, 2020 @12:35PM (#22957811)
Partnership
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