Re:Amazon lied about using seller data, lawmakers say, urgin...
by random314 on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @06:51PM
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I am wondering if Walmart and Costcos store brands are allowed to use seller data!
Re:Amazon lied about using seller data, lawmakers say, urgin...
by makeitdouble on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @08:18PM
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This is such a recurring take, I wonder how we could deal with it in a constructive way.
To illsutrate my point, please take a look at the results: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+...
I think it indicates a deeper problem, either on how we perceive these companies, or how Amazon succeeded in making itself look like a random traditional company. I don't know the solution outside a very prominent decade lasting lawsuit we could all point at, the same way we had the Microsoft antitrust lawsuit decades before.
Re:Amazon lied about using seller data, lawmakers say, urgin...
by random314 on Friday March 11, 2022 @05:14AM
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TBH, Walmart is pretty fucking huge. Bigger than Amazon in retail revenue.
Re:Amazon lied about using seller data, lawmakers say, urgin...
by throwaway2048 on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @08:00PM
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Amazon on one hand wants to pretend to be a third party market place to avoid liability, regulation, inventory holding risks and so on, and on the other hand wants to collect all the profit, data and exert control as a first party seller.
They can't have it both ways.
It’s a problem because the small sellers take the financial risk trying to sell a new product, then when Amazon sees it’s doing well they make the clone and get the profits.