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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
That’s an unduly narrow definition that ignores Amazon’s anticompetitive practices. Amazon is not just a package delivery company. If your product can be sold on AMZN, you must deal with the company. And it will fuck you over in favor of its own version of the product, or one offered by a manufacturer or vendor in which it has an interest or with which it enjoys more profitable terms.
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Some day, you and I will have a drink or two and I will get to tell you more about this. I will explain to you that lawyers as smart as me have spent much time and money to try to turn what you are talking about into antitrust claims, without avail. Just calling these practices "anticompetitive" does not magically turn them into antitrust violations (or Amazon into a monopoly, for that matter).
What you are talking about is, potentially, a problem for businesses selling on Amazon. Amazon's competitors have tried and failed to persuade businesses that these are reasons not to do business with Amazon. Businesses that sell on Amazon have many, many other ways to sell in e-commerce. eBay, Rakuten, Etsy, Shopify, etc., etc. No one is forced to sell on Amazon.
