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Re:Jeff Bezos has returned to day-to-day management of Amazon by barry-cotter on Thursday April 23, 2020 @06:38PM (#22962380)
> Amazon cannot easily just ask for more if their end of the deal ends up more costly to deliver than forecasted.

Under the circumstances there’s probably no legal obstacle to them doing so. A pandemic looks, walks and quacks like force majeure.

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Re:Jeff Bezos has returned to day-to-day management of Amazon by gbear605 on Thursday April 23, 2020 @08:48PM (#22963429)
Legal, perhaps not. Economic, possibly. I wouldn't be surprised if a change in price acted as a shock to get people to cancel their membership.
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Re:Jeff Bezos has returned to day-to-day management of Amazon by ashtonkem on Friday April 24, 2020 @06:33AM (#22966536)
The PR is probably more important than the legal in this case.
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