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I clearly see a path forward where competition will work.

I truly see an horrible path if government starts to put its big fingers everywhere and start causing all kinds of secondary market effects. When you look in hitory, it ALWAYS ends up being worse.

Nobody speaks about Walmart only sellers, that don't want to work with Amazon (as they are crazy with sellers).

Nobody speaks about Ebay sellers, nobody speaks about shopify only sellers. Nobody speaks about LOCAL sellers.

Those are all competitors than Amazon has no control over it.

Yes Amazon has a large distribution network, and competitor are starting to catch up from what I can see.

But anyway, what can I do other than expressing my disagreement ? I very well know we are going towards a gov intervention. I can only laugh in my corner, alone...

I was a eRetailer and I often lowered my prices accordingly to be more competitive than what was proposed by Amazon.

I ended making the sale because someone did not buy at Amazon.

Nobody forced me to raise prices at all. Amazon had no control at all on my prices. The market price is what is offered and what the customer is willing to pay.

If it's too expensive, nobody buys there.

I think we both get the point, except we think in different terms about the solution. I'd rather let the market works, have a transition towards competition which will eventually come down the line (5 to 10 years) than have big government try to solve the problem by making everything worse off.

If you are a client and have really bad service, you don't come back.

Are you a client and subscriber of Amazon ?

I don't we are there yet. I buy plenty on eBay because it is cheaper than amazon.

You're totally right

Nothing stops walmart to enter the market and cut the price off 25% to 35%.

And the buyers will move towards it.

Don't paint amazon subscribers as victims here. I am entirely satisfied of the time saved and the cost of Amazon products I buy.

The yelling comes from the Amazon sellers side, not from the customers.

There is plenty of competition for me to shop around, and if there are none, I'd rather buy from Amazon as I trust that they reduce the costs , fees and taxes effectively.

I would argue that the government should do less and not more. If they really want competition to grow, they could stop charging capital gains on every item a seller flip.

For example, when I was selling on Ebay, after the platform fees, the shipping fees, and the government taxes, it's just not worth it to enter the sector as a small guy.

I guess it is relevant to the "Amazon is an evil and monopolistic organisation" theme.

Maybe not relevant for the lawsuit specified in the report, they are certainly entitled to sue for any reason. But the classic theme still show its nose.

On an other note, if amazon has 128 million prime subscribers and they like the service, it is something politicians need to be aware if they still want to be elected.

That's just far from being a monopoly. I subscribe to Amazon because I've always got an excellent service.

I also buy on Ebay, Craglist, Walmart and diverse retailers that are entering the eCommerce game.

The thing here is that markets take longer to work but if you look around, there is plenty of competition.

And yet, people still vote for the same kind of politicians.

I don't blame the execs, I would have done the same.

Net worth does not need to be kept in the form of paper currencies

Not sure you can really

On the same note, why is Azeria labs offices blurred on Google Maps ? Is it a special feature ? Or just that you need to know people at Google ?

Wow, make them become lazy

Do you have an example ?

I don't support that kind of surveillance.

That said, are they really in illegality ? Can I buy this type of localization data as a private individual ?

If so, then they don't need a warrant, am I right ?

Any chance we can keep supporting java applets ? Still need them to fill up my hours.

You might want to find out to whom the debt is owed.

The US government owes money to the US government. The trend is an uptrend.

The only thing stopping this stratagem is currency devaluation on the free global market.

I forgot to specify that the 100 million is entirely printed money.

Whatever the way you see it, that 100 million of buying power should not exist and eventually ends up lifting the prices of normal goods just with the economic activity it generates.

Inflation is not always in relation directly to the price.

For example, if Netflix is able to get 10,000,000 new subscribers. It receives $100,000,000.

It can now spend $50,000,000 on new infrastructure, which will make the price rise.

Netflix can also hire for $50,000,000, which creates jobs that otherwise wouldn't exist. Those new employees, working for that new currency will spend their salaries, rising the prices.