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by adrianmsmith 2170 days ago
What's wrong with that? If the restaurants are getting the price they want to charge, and if the customers are prepared to pay the higher price, seems everything's OK?

I agree that it's scammy that grubhub etc. is pretending to be the restaurant. But if they made it clear, we are a delivery service giving you access to this restaurant, if you want to order this food you can do so for $17.99, I think everything would be fine with that business model.
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jiofih 2170 days ago
If, but that’s not what they are doing. So there’s everything wrong with that.
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adrianmsmith 2170 days ago
Understood. But then the law should ban pretending to be someone else (it probably does, but evidently not effectively enough). Having a cap of x% on fees won't solve this problem. It will solve another problem which wasn't a problem in the first place.
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