Carry on California. I need to cutdown and eventually stop purchasing from Amazon.
this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2026
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Until there is serious punishment for corporations nothing ever changes with the amount of abuse they can do.
Capitalism at it's most advantageous to humanity.
Amazon has reached out to its vendors and instructed them to increase retail prices on competitors’ websites
This is and has been part of Amazon's contract to be listed on their site since the beginning. They are not even remotely the only one doing this. It's an industry norm in digital storefronts. Valve has also been sued for this several times. I don't know why we're acting like this is a recent discovery.
We need to just ban this practice, because as long as they're allowed to, they will.
Valve states you can’t sell a steam key in another platform for cheaper than in steam, not that you can’t sell your game anywhere else at a lower price. That’s slightly different than here. Not defending it just saying that it is actually different than here.
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When you have a government of criminals, it emboldens those not in government
This is OK because our Leaders are Looking out For the COMMON man! That's why I'm going to ENTHUSIASTICALLY Vote for the Billionaire AGAIN!
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I'm always a little shocked when people ask me if my product is on Amazon. I never even considered it because I've known what they are for so long; it's been a bit of a wakeup call that most people still have no idea how fucking awful Amazon is. It sucks struggling with market visibility, selling just from my own website, but it beats the hell out of being bullied like this until I'm big enough to have my product stolen and copied by Amazon Basics.
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Bought something from AliExpress last week. Showed up in an Amazon box 😐 Aggravating that the only way to avoid them is apparently to never shop online. I already mostly don't, but sheesh.
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Fabric.com they did the same thing with.
Now you can't buy fabric by the yard hardly anywhere.
Joanne's filed for bankruptcy and then closed, Michael's has it sometimes, hobby lobby... they'll take your money and make sure you're gay cousin can't get married..
The mom and pop fabric stores are dead..
I guess we'll own nothing and be happy about it
Edit. Damn you autocorrect! Edit2. Clarity
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I figured as such when I noticed, on multiple occasions, prices for random products would just suddenly change, multiple times a week for different people I knew. And also how seemingly multiple different pages for the same product were available with a word switched here and there... friends got product page 1, I got product page 2. Same product different price. Amazon always seemed shady to me and was kinda surprised it was always the go to online store for people.
I could never trust a price on amazon, even though they were always almost always cheaper than local alternatives.
It all started careening downhill when they swapped to whatever marketplace crap is in place now. OG amazon was a revelation back in the day.
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