FTC: Amazon "extracts enormous monopoly rents from everyone within its reach."

FTC files “the big one,” a lawsuit alleging Amazon illegally maintains monopoly::FTC: Amazon “extracts enormous monopoly rents from everyone within its reach.”

  • Pxtl@lemmy.caEnglish
    1855·
    1 year ago

    I can’t help but notice Amazon is facing a big lawsuit over hurting other corporations.

    Selling an infinite catalogue of shoddy, fraudulent, and outright dangerous goods like leaden toys, phone-melting power-equipment, house-destroying incendiary batteries, and data-erasing empty data storage? No, that’s fine, that’s not Amazon’s fault, that was XZBBK’s fault. We kicked them off the store. No, I don’t think they’re related to that new company XBZZK, why would you say that? They sell legitimate USB cables that according to the listing used to be cutting board, a drying rack, a canopy for a kids bed, and an espresso machine.

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.worldEnglish
      391·
      1 year ago

      It’s worse than that.

      They DON’T kick bad actors off the store most of the time because they don’t know who they are.

      Amazon keeps all of product X in one place in each distribution center, regardless of the supplier. So they can’t know which of the 35 sellers of the product is supplying the counterfeits.

      I don’t buy batteries from them anymore. I’m pretty sure 90+% of 18650 cells they have are counterfeit.

    • ditty@lemm.eeEnglish
      161·
      1 year ago

      The gall to question their listing with an average customer rating of 4.9/5 stars. Sure I only gave them that rating so I could qualify for the warranty on the 3 TB flash drive I bought from them for $8.99, but I’m sure it’ll work fine once I use it for the first time.

    • uis@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Amazon isn’t sued for not kicking bad actors, it is sued for being bad actor