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Re:Apple found in breach of EU competition rules by Mordisquitos on Monday June 24, 2024 @12:22PM (#40777941)
If even after stopping you from linking to your own site Amazon still fears their customers will price shop by their own accord then:

a) Amazon is implicitly admitting that their shopping platform is not so special: if customers could find cheaper suppliers of your product that would be enough for Amazon to be outcompeted.

b) Amazon is indisputably engaging in anticompetitive practices by forbidding you from even selling at a cheaper price with the only justification of "we do not want price competition to even exist"

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Re:Apple found in breach of EU competition rules by toasterlovin on Monday June 24, 2024 @02:31PM (#40779260)
Sorry, but you just have no idea how valuable Amazon is at enabling customers to discover that your product even exists. 100% of the customers who have ever bought from our website have discovered us on Amazon. We know this because we don't do any advertising outside of Amazon.
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