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FTC files “the big one,” a lawsuit alleging Amazon illegally maintains monopoly::FTC: Amazon "extracts enormous monopoly rents from everyone within its reach."

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's worse than that.

They DON'T kick bad actors off the store most of the time because they don't know who they are.

Amazon keeps all of product X in one place in each distribution center, regardless of the supplier. So they can't know which of the 35 sellers of the product is supplying the counterfeits.

I don't buy batteries from them anymore. I'm pretty sure 90+% of 18650 cells they have are counterfeit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

At some point it became a question of who doesn't sell counterfeit 18650s