2026-10-17 00:40 UTC
@ScottishGreens@mastodon.scot
I’d like to suggest that’s not the correct approach.
Referring to reporting by @pluralistic@mamot.fr: Amazon takes a 50% cut of every thing sold by vendors on top of the payola they must fork over in order to win top search rankings. He has mentioned that page 2 products are often 25% or more less expensive than the top search results.
Amazon contractually for bids them from offering a lower price anywhere else
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai 2026-10-17 00:42
@ScottishGreens@mastodon.scot I fear that taxing Amazon vendors only punishes people who are already over a barrel by Amazon. Amazon also uses their AI bots to surveil vendors and catch Them if they “cheat” and offer a lower price than on Amazon. How about dealing with Amazon as it is as a criminal extortionist enterprise and subject them to the law? Surely there are laws on the books criminalizing this kind of business conduct