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Amazon didn't join because it would be nearly impossible to police their third-party sellers and their use of these factories.


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Amazon's PR would have not allowed that.

Amazon could do it if they wished; they don't want to.

the real reason is because Amazon wants to do business in China, so they absolutely cannot do something like that on their end without getting blacklisted by China's government.

Why would they not want to? This is a serious business problem for Amazon, isn't it?

Amazon won't, so their reps can't.

Yeah. No way in hell Amazon would agree to a similar setup. I didn’t think about that aspect of it.

They mostly can't in the US either. And Amazon has apparently rarely prevailed in enforcing it. But that doesn't prevent them using lawsuits as a kudgel to punish defectors.

You'd think Amazon would make top execs sign non-competes.

I don't think amazon would want to trust a third party with a new venture

Is there something preventing Amazon from doing so?

Indeed, I don't understand how Amazon can claim they are fighting this, when they could just ban all resellers

I think what's much more interesting is that the only approved vendor is Amazon.

Well, Amazon directly is allowed. They just don't want to ;)

I would assume it’s an issue of agreements with Amazon.

Why would they do that? Amazon is no match for the US government and military complex and pissing them off is the worst business move they could make.

Beyond this, if Amazon was willing to participate, I'm pretty sure Google would let them in. However, knowing the companies from prior actions, there's no way in hell Bezos would ever allow that to happen.

I’m pretty sure if Amazon wanted to negotiate custom terms, they’d have the clout to do so. This is an alliance between two giants.

You aren't avoiding the risk of Amazon deciding they want to compete.

No mention of unions.

No concept that Amazon should be held responsible as the seller when they resell a counterfeit item.

No mention of antitrust or monopoly issues.

Amazon doesn't have much of a GPDR/CCPA privacy problem because most of the data they collect is from their own customers, who have agreed to Amazon's terms. Amazon doesn't want to sell customer info because that would help their competitors compete with them. They have their own internal closed ecosystem.

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