The FTC Sues to Break Up Amazon over an Economy-Wide “Hidden Tax”

Re:The FTC Sues to Break Up Amazon over an Economy-Wide “Hid... by endisneigh on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @09:40AM (#37765025)

You can lower the product for 5% on both your site and on Amazon. Since Amazon makes up the plurality of your sales you gain more sales both there and on your site. Everyone wins except for you, and such is the life of race-to-the-bottom e-commerce sales.

What I'm describing is already what happens, by the way. Look at Anker for an example.

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Re:The FTC Sues to Break Up Amazon over an Economy-Wide “Hid... by Jensson on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @09:53AM (#37765190)

> Everyone wins except for you

Which is why your scenario here wont happen. Thanks for clarifying so well why your argument "there is no consumer harm" is bullshit, what you said here means you know that what Amazon does here increases prices.

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Re:The FTC Sues to Break Up Amazon over an Economy-Wide “Hid... by endisneigh on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @10:00AM (#37765307)

The consumer is Amazon’s end customer, not the seller. Amazon sellers can and do take a loss to sell on Amazon, and ultimately the seller's fate is of no concern to Amazon. Again, they don't have to sell on Amazon to begin with. I buy plenty of bike parts, for example directly on their site and they're not even offered to Amazon to begin with.

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Re:The FTC Sues to Break Up Amazon over an Economy-Wide “Hid... by dwallin on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @10:02AM (#37765328)

Great, you gain more sales and immediately go out of business since you were already pricing your product near cost.

Prices then rise back up as your nearest competitor was smart enough to not lower price below their cost.

Or do you somehow believe that price competition currently only exists everywhere EXCEPT on Amazon's platform?

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