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by childifchaos 3560 days ago
This article is complete nonsense.

I expect Amazon to recommend me products that it itself is selling or it itself has in its own warehouse, the sellers are secondary, if I wanted to buy from another seller I would use eBay.

The fact that there is even an option to then price compare with other sellers and purchase direct from the seller while on the Amazon website is a pretty cool bonus, not Amazon trying to scam me.

It's not a price comparison site searching for the best price and giving it to me (if I wanted that I would use a price comparison website) and it's not eBay or a marketplace, it's Amazon, a direct retailer with an added bonus of allowing you to search a separate marketplace but it's main business is selling directly!

The marketplace is mainly clever marketing by Amazon, people use Amazon because they don't need to look else where because it has everything, since even direct order companies sell on there, hence once some people discover this they just use Amazon for everything (I know lots of people that do this)

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almost wholly unregulated

Is the key bit. They aren't trying to be coherent, they are advocating for anti-democratic law, aka regulation.