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Re:Justice Department, states likely to bring antitrust laws... by kd5bjo on Saturday May 16, 2020 @06:26AM (#23202247)
The issue is the consumer harm that comes from the combination of not trusting Amazon to deliver the qualities you care about for a certain class of product and there being no alternative suppliers because Amazon drove them out of business.

It seems like there aren’t any middle-quality products anymore: you can buy a cheap plastic item that never works quite right and will break next month, or you can buy a chrome-plated showpiece item that costs too much. Where’s the non-disposable, ugly, bulletproof utility version these days?

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Re:Justice Department, states likely to bring antitrust laws... by pdonis on Sunday May 17, 2020 @12:06AM (#23209479)
> It seems like there aren’t any middle-quality products anymore

I think there still are, but I agree it's very hard to find any on Amazon, at least in a lot of product categories. You have to spend time trawling actual brick and mortar stores.

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