17 States Sue Amazon
17 States are suing Amazon to try to break up the monopoly on internet sales they say Amazon has. They say that Amazon is charging buyers too much and that sellers are having to pay high fees.
I don't see it that way. If you go after Amazon then why not Walmart or other internet sellers.
Amazon does not set the price charged by sellers even though they try to govern it a bit.
And as a seller and even a buyer, if I do not like the price, this is the United States of American and no one is putting a gun to my head and telling me I have to buy off Amazon. I am free to buy from whomever I want.
It irritaes the heck out of me when people leave feedback or reviews that say the price is too high. Then go buy it somewhere else. I have even said it time or two, when sellers could leave feedback on reviews concerning the price. Probably why I am not allowed to leave feedback on reviews.
I am not sure where the idea came from that buying on line is cheaper than buying at the store. Buying on line is a convenience. When you buy online you are saving time, wear and tear on the car, and many other things come to mind. This convenience cost money. Especially if you live in a rural area and have to travel 25 to 50 miles to get to a store. Many people in the bigger cities shop online so they do have to go out and face the crowd and have something happen to them.
Free Enterprise is the American Way.
In my opinion.
17 States Sue Amazon
17 States are suing Amazon to try to break up the monopoly on internet sales they say Amazon has. They say that Amazon is charging buyers too much and that sellers are having to pay high fees.
I don't see it that way. If you go after Amazon then why not Walmart or other internet sellers.
Amazon does not set the price charged by sellers even though they try to govern it a bit.
And as a seller and even a buyer, if I do not like the price, this is the United States of American and no one is putting a gun to my head and telling me I have to buy off Amazon. I am free to buy from whomever I want.
It irritaes the heck out of me when people leave feedback or reviews that say the price is too high. Then go buy it somewhere else. I have even said it time or two, when sellers could leave feedback on reviews concerning the price. Probably why I am not allowed to leave feedback on reviews.
I am not sure where the idea came from that buying on line is cheaper than buying at the store. Buying on line is a convenience. When you buy online you are saving time, wear and tear on the car, and many other things come to mind. This convenience cost money. Especially if you live in a rural area and have to travel 25 to 50 miles to get to a store. Many people in the bigger cities shop online so they do have to go out and face the crowd and have something happen to them.
Free Enterprise is the American Way.
In my opinion.
10 replies
Seller_CW0P5hgbsiqWX
Well, they can sue, but that doesn't change what is happening in the world today.
"Buying online is a convenience."
Yes, that is the reality of it. That is why department stores are closing more and more locations across America. And in Europe and the KU it is worse.
150 year old department stores are totally closing down because Amazon saves the shoppers a trip downtown to buy. Shoppers can just door from Amazon and it shows up at their door. No real difference from here in the USA, except local travel to the store is quite time consuming.
This creates an excellent opportunity for UK and EU sellers, because they can go into any remaining open stores, look at the manufacturers of products they sell, open an account with the makers of products they like, and have them ship the product to an FBA center. It is working for us.
Seller_24FzucbyGtgZS
You have to start somewhere so why not at the top of the chain. Amazon commands the largest marketplace so its logical.
And love that Amazon still calls us "partners". We are NOTHING of the sort and Amazon makes that clear in the Seller Terms and Services we all subscribe to (except we have to follow it to the letter while Amazon does as it pleases).
Seller_5JcLLooRwnEJW
17 States Sue Amazon
Are you so surprised? This domino effect started years ago in the EU, in several antitrust probes when the U.S. online retailer addressed the EU's concerns over its use of sellers' data and other deceitful practices. By settling , amazon avoided a potential massive multibillion-dollar fine...but actually won because they had already planned a strategy against such legal action, and in the end the changes they agreed to wouldn’t materially affect their competitive edge.
We won't be surprised to see similar litigation in 17 or 50 states here.
Seller_z1JDNz6de1lqc
Amazon will buy a few congress members nothing will happen. All about greed hosting the site while using the selling data to double dip and compete against sellers all the while slowing down sellers FBA inventory so they can charge even more fees for storage. Prices on Amazon in reality are higher due to higher fees, more theft than all other online platforms combined and to make up for the unsustainable rate of planet killing waste of the returns. Oh wait here come the High Pricing Bots who are comparing your price to um Walmart so now lower your price or get blocked for no sales.
Seller_uX5nOyItD4CuW
I'm reading your post as Amazon "sellers are having to pay high fees" in order to sell online. Not that buyers are paying too much for products. And as a buyer and as well as a seller, I'm not charged any fees to purchase.
I will check out the lawsuit and see what it says.
Seller_1oT4ZOwrSByEE
let me know when you hit 1m in seller fees
Seller_gC8zhroXlURLU
very well expressed. "monopoly" is a game of where do you draw the line (and it's arbitrary) between a business that is growing and gaining market share because of great management, and a company that got so big they've gained an "unfair" advantage.
I've commented many times "too expensive" is not a product review - it's more of a statement of the customers perceived value, and their own financial spending habits. To me, Starbucks is "too expensive" but I see cars wrapping the building in line for the takeout window. Don't they know it's too expensive ???
Seller_W0DG9XImyjylo
American enterprise is imperfect Darwinism. Remember when towns tried to keep Walmart from opening with stories of gloom and doom about their small businesses being wiped out? All else being equal some small businesses failed because they couldn't or wouldn't adapt, and other who could or would replaced them. Montgomery Ward fail well before the internet age because they failed to adapt. Sears failed because they failed to shift to internet sales the way Walmart did. If Walmart hadn't changed their M.O. even they would have headed to bankruptcy.
Amazon is simply not a monopoly. It may engage in some anti-competetive practices that may prove to be unlawful. If so they will have to deal with the legal fall out. But anti-trust laws are now over 100 years old and rarely result in the break up of large businesses. AT&T was broken up over 40 years ago. I can't think of another successful anti-trust lawsuit against a major business since. I might be wrong, but??
