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LongtimeAZDem

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7. So your entire argument is that they are too successful, and should be stopped. Good luck with that.
Sat Mar 9, 2019, 04:39 PM
Mar 2019

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Amazon is, in my experience, the most reliable, has the biggest inventory, and is the most expensive LongtimeAZDem Mar 2019 #1
It is a monopoly that has used its huge power to dominate other markets manor321 Mar 2019 #2
No it isn't; you cannot, by definition, be a monopoly with only 50 percent market share. LongtimeAZDem Mar 2019 #3
Amazon is the mall owner, the checkout person privvy to all buyers' shopping preferences Doremus Mar 2019 #13
There's nothing on Amazon you can't get elsewhere, often cheaper. Their advantage is fast service and LongtimeAZDem Mar 2019 #16
that definition of monopoly fits the board game, only Hermit-The-Prog Mar 2019 #15
Amazon basically created e-books. Don't know why you call monopoly there. Blue_true Mar 2019 #10
You are suggesting that in such a huge economy as ours, ONE firm holding 56% of retail... TreasonousBastard Mar 2019 #4
They don't have 56% of retail business, they have 56% of online retail business LongtimeAZDem Mar 2019 #5
Not even that-- 56% of website visits. However, that's not my point. It's not even relevant if... TreasonousBastard Mar 2019 #6
So your entire argument is that they are too successful, and should be stopped. Good luck with that. LongtimeAZDem Mar 2019 #7
Hey, we did to to Rockefeller and the railroad and steel trusts... TreasonousBastard Mar 2019 #8
It's not a trust, and it's not a monopoly, and there's no evidence it disrupts the market, other than LongtimeAZDem Mar 2019 #9
Website visits. Not sales. MineralMan Mar 2019 #11
Post #6? TreasonousBastard Mar 2019 #12
I don't know when retail market share was deregulated but Doremus Mar 2019 #14
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