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Re:The FTC Sues to Break Up Amazon over an Economy-Wide “Hid... by EliRivers on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @10:22AM (#37765644)
The move that Amazon's price be no higher than offered elsewhere is the most pro-consumer move possible.

Yet here we are with sellers WANTING to sell their items at a lower price on places other than Amazon, but if they do, they'll go out of business. That doesn't sound pro-consumer.

I'm a consumer. I'd like to be able to buy items for the lowest price the seller wants to offer me. That's not happening in some cases because if they do, Amazon will exclude them and they'll go out of business. Yeah, definitely not pro-consumer. Pro-amazon, sure.

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Re:The FTC Sues to Break Up Amazon over an Economy-Wide “Hid... by RandomLensman on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @11:51AM (#37766968)
Would Amazon be obligated to list the items regardless? Otherwise just dropping pricing conditions would only help those sellers that Amazon has enough interest to list regardless - for some products the "equilibrium" might not be great.
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