Re:Google: The harmful consequences of Congress’s anti-tech ...
by ocdtrekkie on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @09:44PM
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Yeah, so many stores have added the third party marketplace functionality and it's always sketchy. Like when you end up having to work with some random business that exists out of someones house to fix an issue with computers you bought on Newegg. It's usually at best a single line noting that you're buying from someone other than the site you're on.
> Like the House’s bill, the Senate’s bill would force companies like Amazon to separate their marketplace from their own retail offerings. This sounds “good” in theory, but the end of hybrid services would inevitably mean the decline of the SMBs who use and succeed on these platforms.
and
> The Senate’s legislation would also make it impossible for Amazon to offer its Prime free shipping service on millions of products, many of which are from small and medium-sized businesses. Consumers will likely turn to big retailers, none of whom are targeted by the bill and most do not provide the same seamless and robust access to massive consumer markets or promote small businesses nearly as well.
Despite these, I can't find the bill text in these articles.
(also, I hope the marketplace breakup would also affect walmart.com - they made a 3p seller marketplace that has caused confusion in customers who now think Walmart is selling GPUs at scalper prices[1] when they're actually just taking a % of those scalpers' revenue)
0: https://www.ocregister.com/2021/10/26/small-businesses-would...
1: https://www.walmart.com/ip/MSI-NVIDIA-GeForce-RTX-3080-Ti-Gr...