Hacker News Reader

> They sell at a loss until they shake everyone loose from a product, then dominate all sales of that products on the Marketplace, raising prices to profitability when they feel like it.

This has actually happened? Can you point me to examples with price charts?

View on HN

They famously did their whole competition with Diapers.com and their parent company. That wasn’t an Amazon marketplace competitor though. But it was pretty ruthless of Amazon.

But what was the lowest price, and how much did they raise it from that point?

If I look at this article[1], they have a screenshot of size 4 pampers for 22 cents each, in 2010. In 2019 dollars that's 26 cents. The current amazon brand is 23 cents each, and the same pampers are 26 cents.

It doesn't seem like they've abused any dominance here. It's very possible they could do it in the future, but that's not the same thing.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-diapers-price-war-201...

If he could amazon would be getting a spanking in court right now, I wouldn't be surprised if it were true, but as for evidence...

Reply on news.ycombinator.com