Amazon is in a bit of a strange position as far as digital retailers go. Not only does the company sell a wide array of its own,…
Amazon is in a bit of a strange position as far as digital retailers go. Not only does the company sell a wide array of its own, custom products; ranging from mice to keyboards and from speakers to chairs, but it also hosts thousands upon thousands of other product listings as well. As such, the Commission believes Amazon has exploited its dominant market position to gain an unfair advantage over the third-party sellers whose products it hosts. Commission investigators found that Amazon feeds back-end data about third-party sellers’ products into its own algorithms to help it decide which products to launch. The Commission says Amazon is using this data to directly copy the products of some third-party sellers and then sell its own versions at a lower price point.
