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the price confusion/obscurity facilitates higher prices, none of the players on the sell side would benefit from lower margins, so they all do the same

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Yeah, but that would stimulate the existence of comparison websites.

i know, who needs those though?

That's right but if the best price you have found before asking is AWS, you probably have not done a lot of research.

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