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A few years before COVID I bought a dresser on Amazon. The box had a Walmart receipt in it. The guy had made his own UPC code, copied images of the dresser, and just bought the Walmart dresser shipping it to me and pocketing 30 bucks.

I cancelled Amazon years ago and have enjoyed not wading through the desperate side hustles and scams that Amazon essentially farms for data they can use to enter markets that they can then dominate.

How Doordash/Uber/etc exploit their drivers' lack of sense for depreciation costs / maintenance etc is just how Amazon exploits small business hustlers' lack of understanding of the power of omniscient market data.