matsuki wrote:Russell wrote:matsuki wrote:At the end of the day you can always just not sell on Amazon?Russell wrote:wuchan wrote:matsuki wrote:
Sounds like the usual cartel-style price fixers just have their panties in a twist....
Pretty much this. If Amazon were a Japanese company this wouldn't be an issue.
You could be right.
That said, I do not like Amazon's predatory policies, and most of the time Amazon is not the cheapest anyway. I usually find better deals at Rakuten, or directly at the shop's web page, like Monotaro, Yodobashi, etc.
I don't sell anything on Amazon, but I get your point.
That said, they don't behave like gentlemen. I read about some suppliers selling some product well on Amazon, only for Amazon to make an own version of the product at a discounted price after they analyzed the sales of that supplier. It does not sound right, because they abuse their position as janitor of the sales site.
That sounds pretty messed up, you sure it was actually Amazon doing that though? I've seen numerous stories of Chinese companies analyzing trends and knocking off all kinds of things...forcing the original seller to constantly battle the knockoffs on Amazon. (They were trying to get Amazon to streamline the process of having the counterfeit/knockoff products removed)
According to the article I read a couple of years ago, it was Amazon itself. I do not know whether they ceased this practice, but it does show their state of mind.