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Re-writing descriptions is such a bizarre thing to do I don't know why Amazon would choose to do it. Clearly they are getting things wrong in the descriptions, which is misleading to customers, which must be illegal in some fashion.

Holding apps hostage -- not being able to choose unilaterally to remove them -- is beyond the pale.

Whose app is it anyway?

Does Amazon think they own these things the second they get uploaded?

They rewrote the description of my app, also with mistakes. Very annoying, especially since if you try to change it it takes at least two weeks to show up! In the span of app sales that is a lifetime!

To be honest, this is true of every product that Amazon sells.

But it's not true of any other app store with which Amazon competes. Whether or not it's true of Walmart isn't really relevant.

No it's not. Amazon does a lot of selling for third parties who set their own prices.

Yes, but they still pay you as if they charged full price. Sounds like a pretty good deal to me. The description thing is just odd though.