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So many people still think its ok for them to do📱 (lemmy.ml)

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Always a smokescreen to take away your rights. Epstein plead guilty in 2008 to trafficking children to nobody.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

And there's a reason for that:

"[Amazon makes] every merchant that sells through their platform sign a "most favored nation" guarantee that they will not charge less for their products anywhere else – which means that the price is the same everywhere.

And that's the heart of the California antitrust case against Amazon: Amazon's market dominance makes it impossible to survive without offering your products on Amazon; to succeed there, you must turn over 35-45% of your gross to Amazon. That leads to higher prices on Amazon, and, thanks to the most favored nation deal, it pushes those same higher prices to every other retailer."

So basically the price on their website is what the company would charge you if they would want to be a sustainable business (or they're trying to recoup their losses from selling on Amazon).

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