09-29-2017, 04:35 PM
(09-29-2017, 04:20 PM)Benton Wrote: Not mine. I hate Amazon. I used to use it, but now I can't tell who is selling what. And in three orders with an Amazon certified seller (or whatever they call it), all three ended up with a long-awaited refund because the products either didn't get delivered or weren't what I ordered.
From the second link:
To me, that's mind boggling.
They have a business, but they're supposed to favor someone else's business because theirs is too successful?
And I guess that's my issue. I don't use Amazon, and I hate Walmart. But I don't fault either one of them for having successful business models. People like them, so people use them. And I don't know how you can call either a monopoly when those two companies are battling each other.
Under EU laws they are supposed to remain neutral on shopping searches, not favor their own or their competitors.
“We’re giving comparison shopping services the same opportunity to show shopping ads from merchants on Google’s search results pages as we give to Google Shopping,” Al Verney, a spokesman for Google in Brussels, said.”
“Along with other investigations into Google, the commission has also opened inquiries into tax avoidance, data privacy and abuse of market position, affecting big-name companies including Amazon, Apple and Facebook.”
