Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power
by lp0_on_fire on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @06:39PM
(#37666776)
Selling things at a loss doesn’t mean things are cheap it just means the real costs are being subsidized elsewhere.
Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power
by ameister14 on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @09:43PM
(#37668704)
>If the price stays low and never goes to high monopoly prices then it is a good thing.
Not necessarily, but it goes a long way to balancing out the negative consequences. The problem, though, is they've never had prices stay low. Eventually, prices go up. So far, Amazon does this through loss-leaders; products that have low prices allowing them to capture a market and charge high prices for other products as a monopoly.
>If a company becomes a "monopoly" by being cheap, and staying cheap, thats just competition by definition.
If that was all they were doing it would be legal.
If the price stays low and never goes to high monopoly prices then it is a good thing.
If a company becomes a "monopoly" by being cheap, and staying cheap, thats just competition by definition.
Which is the situation we are seeing with amazon.