I like this post. Shame it didn't gain any traction and is about to fall off the "new" page. Oh well at least I got to read it - right?
"It appears that Amazon wants to be the one controlling the price of my product. As it seems, they would be able to simply define any price for the product, and change it at any time they want, without asking me about this."
Got it now in my permanent file of links on Amazon practices.