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by jgowdy 3111 days ago
There’s a fine line here between dumping, bundling, and loss leading. Amazon bundles video with a Prime subscription. Not all customers under that promotion have to be profitable, and not all of them have to be profitable in the same way (based on usage pattern and the associated costs). Loss leading is also a legitimate technique to drive customers into the funnel for up sales.

For this to be properly considered dumping, Amazon would have to be intentionally putting price pressure on Netflix and Hulu by under pricing their offering significantly.