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>They are ensuring their customers get the best price.

No they are not. They are setting the price on their platform to be the minimum price. That's very different and bad for consumers.

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They're saying "give our customers your best price or you can't sell the item on our platform; you're free to sell it anywhere else of course for whatever price you want but you just cant have access to our customers". Now I do think it hurts the consumer - as I reasoned in my post - but in a round-about way; one that that law currently doesn't seem to be able to reach.

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