FTC: Amazon "extracts enormous monopoly rents from everyone within its reach."

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

  • protovack@lemmy.worldEnglish
    245·
    9 months ago

    i hate amazon as much as anyone, but…really, just cancel prime and dont use them unless you absolutely have to. Order direct from companies themselves if you can. Shop local. You can’t rely on the FTC to do anything and i doubt this will go anywhere. you are much more powerful than you think you are.

      • dirtySourdough@lemmy.worldEnglish
        16·
        9 months ago

        I had this happen to me on eBay as well. I paid a few extra bucks to avoid buying from Amazon and instead got the item mailed to me directly from Amazon. This is against eBay’s policies (you need to have the described item on hand) and may be against Etsy’s policies too

    • cm0002@lemmy.worldEnglish
      25·
      9 months ago

      No thanks, I don’t feel like going back to waiting a week for my package, 4 hour to next day delivery is just too nice

      • protovack@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        9 months ago

        fair enough. i found that it was mostly a scam. they hook you in with “free” prime in college, then it just keeps re-billing forever until you finally realize “do i really need this package in 1 day as opposed to 3-4?” in my case, i virtually never need something instantly. so why pay the $170? its clearly very profitable for them, judging by how desperately they try to get me to re-sign up.