https://www.reuters.com/technology/amazon-steers-consumers-higher-priced-items-lawsuit-claims-2024-02-09/ Feb 9 (Reuters) - Amazon.com (AMZN.O) was sued in a proposed U.S. class action accusing the online retailer of violating a consumer protection law by steering hundreds of millions of shoppers t…

It was only a matter of time until someone figured out which was the correct approach for Amazon’s quiddity in this regard, which has been fairly obvious to some observers ever since the 11Mar`19 removal of the “S-4 Parity with Your Sales Channels.” clause of the ASBSA. There’s blood in the water, …

[image] Pepper_Thine_Angus: often obscures lower-priced options with faster delivery times Hmm, I’m not sure if this part is true though. Usually it’s favoring higher priced FBA offers (which have faster delivery) over lower priced FBM offers with slower delivery. Which is a valid thing to do…

[image] GGX: Now, ASV has pointed out a theory that the Amazon choice badge is based partly on ad spend. Correction - almost completely based upon ad spend. I spend nothing on ads except during the 'season" for my very seasonal product, yet it still sells at a steady lower rate in the “off s…

Well, that certainly sounds like deceptive advertising, assuming that it can be proven in some way. As for someone bidding on your trademark for sponsored ads, I don’t think that trademark protection extends to that (at least, I haven’t heard of any major lawsuit involving that yet). And yes, you’r…

[image] GGX: Well, that certainly sounds like deceptive advertising, How’s anyone ever going to prove it? It falls into this bucket that my SAS manger likes to quote regularly. My response below :arrow_heading_down: I guess THIS is our problem - “other criteria that Amazon is unable to disc…

[image] Pepper_Thine_Angus: was sued in a proposed U.S. class action (lawsuit) I looked this up in my Funk & Wagnalls (yes it is here in the office on the shelf) … Def. Law firms making money… [image] Pepper_Thine_Angus: …and pay “hefty fees” for inventory storage, packing and shipping,…

[image] Image: Since this is a Class Action, I get 99 cents on the dollar, you all get 1 cent. For the most part this is true, class action lawsuits are just a scam to make law firms money. Sometimes you get a class action that results in an actual change in the company’s behavior, but many t…

[image] GGX: In this case, Amazon will likely not give up any discovery Oooh! oooh!, I KNOW this one! Refusal to disclose in discovery leads to sanctions, including the court assigning “adverse inference” to the entire issue addressed by the withheld discovery. This happened in a case I wa…

IMO the most interesting aspects of this suit and the others is just how much information on algorithms will Amazon disclose, and what arguments will ensue about what should be disclosed. Disclosure of the algorithms will likely make selling on Amazon impossible for many sellers.

[image] GGX: Now, ASV has pointed out a theory that the Amazon choice badge is based partly on ad spend. If that’s the case that’s deceptive advertising. The Amazon Choice badge is a measure of popularity of the product, if advertising works, it must be based, in part, on ad spending. If Amaz…

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