FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power

Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power by blibble on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @03:54PM (#37664990)

it's a genius business for a "retailer"

normally they'd need to pay for storage, stock, liquidation of stock they didn't sell, returns etc

and instead now you pay for all of that for them

and what do you get in return?

   - a listing on page 17 of their ever increasingly shitty website behind legions of MINFARTO, PATRONICS and GIBRANKER aliexpress garbage
   - customer service staff with an inability to understand simple english or basic problems
   - your genuine stock mixed with counterfeits, that then they penalise you for
   - paying to give your sales information to them as a potential competitor, as if you do well they'll ripoff your product

and they take essentially absolutely no risk whatsoever

not a good deal at all

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Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power by musicale on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @04:40PM (#37665539)

I would believe those are actual brand names.

Has anyone created software or a web site to generate hilarious Amazon brand names automatically? Looks like it: businessnamegenerator.com, namesnack.com, etc.

As the NYT noted, "Amazon is to fake products as Facebook is to fake news."

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Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power by toast0 on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @05:29PM (#37666045)

I mean, MINFARTO has legs.

But then again, I remember seeing COBY products right next to SONY products and I guess they're still around. :)

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Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power by ilkke on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @06:17PM (#37666518)

SQMY is my fav SONY 'tribute brand'

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Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power by civilitty on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @06:06PM (#37666409)

My favorites are HILETGO, KeeYees, AITRIP, "Oi ya gai", Treedix, and Gikfun.

I bought products from all these Amazon vendors last year, hilariously they're still around.

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Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power by Kerb_ on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @07:08PM (#37667098)

YoDoIt, the iFixIt knockoff, always gets a laugh from me

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Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power by snuxoll on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @10:04PM (#37668901)

HiLetgo is legit, they've been around for quite some time and make decent ESP32 boards among other things. You can tell the FBA placeholders from Alibaba drop shippers because they're almost universally six letters and all uppercase like MOREPI; because this is enough for them to get a trademark to participate in the Amazon Brand Registry and get reduced seller fees.

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Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power by TMWNN on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @02:23PM (#37678952)

Nothing can beat ASHAMED. (Yes, really.)

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Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power by internet101010 on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @06:29PM (#37666665)

Oh and if you want your inventory isolated so that it doesn't it mixed in with counterfeits... that's another fee.

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Re:FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power by danielmarkbruce on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @08:07PM (#37667747)

Yeah, there is no risk spending billions on fulfillment centers. Amazon has never blown billions by spending too much on that.

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