Re:Amazon Discriminatory and anti-competitive on eGift cards?
by notahacker on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @09:33AM
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And the fact big name retailers notionally competing with Amazon can secure approval to issue gift cards on Amazon.com is a pretty clear indication that it's not an anti-competitive policy, it's a why would we invest compliance resources in proving that startups selling gift cards for digital goods aren't money laundering operations when it'd be more cost effective to just ban them from the platform policy.
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Re:Amazon Discriminatory and anti-competitive on eGift cards?
by rebrad on Thursday February 15, 2024 @05:13AM
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Yeah sure, "invest compliance resources" when they don't even let you know what the application procedure is? Sure. The anti-competitive behaviour is shown as it's not possible to for small companies to even apply! If large companies can deploy resources towards compliance small can too, but without knowing the rules it's impossible.
Re:Amazon Discriminatory and anti-competitive on eGift cards?
by notahacker on Thursday February 15, 2024 @05:36AM
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I hate to break it to you, but you're not Amazon's competition, and it's not "anticompetitive behaviour" that they don't want to spend thousands of man hours reviewing hundreds of applications from small businesses or fake business making gift cards, only a tiny fraction of which will generate more profit than chargebacks and legal trouble.