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Re:Amazon Prime inflates prices, using the false promise of ... by jannes on Sunday May 30, 2021 @02:42PM (#27335452)
I have read that they even go so far and crawl+scrape other shop websites.

Of course that is hard to prove because they have plausible deniability.

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Re:Amazon Prime inflates prices, using the false promise of ... by DaiPlusPlus on Sunday May 30, 2021 @05:46PM (#27337165)
The trick is to have “Amazon-exclusive” SKUs, or vice-versa: “NotAmazon-exclusive” SKUs that are ever-so-slightly different to justify a different price.
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