Washington state shuts down Amazon price-fixing program nationwide

Re:Washington state shuts down Amazon price-fixing program n... by dangus on Thursday January 27, 2022 @02:11AM (#30097226)

Alot of people outside of news/tech circles do trust Amazon. They're literally the most popular retailer, of course people trust them. Anecdotes are everywhere about inventory co-mingling being such a mega problem, but I think opinions are getting repeated and amplified by a vocal minority.

Beyond that, trust is irrelevant when returns/refunds are dead simple. It's wasteful, for sure, but I guess that's capitalism.

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Re:Washington state shuts down Amazon price-fixing program n... by bostik on Thursday January 27, 2022 @07:22AM (#30099647)

I have a split-brain on the matter.

I trust Amazon to the extent that I am okay with them storing my card information. Their security practices in that regard are pretty damn good. (I do not trust Google with my payment card info. I do not want them to have anything on file they could trigger charges against, either by accident or through their many dark patterns.)

I do not trust Amazon when it comes to vendor or marketplace management. They have an enormous fake review problem, and the probability for counterfeits is, in some categories, unacceptably high.

Meaning: I don't buy any big ticket items from them. I'm still happily doing mostly recurring purchases from Amazon, for product categories where the chance of getting mislabelled junk is practically zero.

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Re:Washington state shuts down Amazon price-fixing program n... by eru on Thursday January 27, 2022 @03:49AM (#30097925)

Not sure it's that wasteful? Amazon pays for the returns/refunds, so they have an obvious incentive to keep them to a small number of cases.

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