<story><title>Amazon faces $1B lawsuit in UK for &apos;favouring its own products&apos;</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazon-faces-1-bln-lawsuit-uk-favouring-its-own-products-2022-10-20/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>user3939382</author><text>So far I see everyone discussing search results. Recall that Amazon has been known to go to their competitor&amp;#x27;s factories and produce identical products with their brand with an undercut price. In some cases they steal the design of and make crap versions of quality products that are selling well
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cnbc.com&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;amazon-accused-of-copying-camera-gearmaker-peak-designs-top-selling-item-.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cnbc.com&amp;#x2F;2021&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;amazon-accused-of-copying-ca...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Only they know how many people and companies they&amp;#x27;ve hurt doing this.&lt;p&gt;As far as I&amp;#x27;m concerned the whole company is ethically bankrupt and rotten to the core starting with Bezos and can disappear from the Earth.</text></comment>
<story><title>Amazon faces $1B lawsuit in UK for &apos;favouring its own products&apos;</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/amazon-faces-1-bln-lawsuit-uk-favouring-its-own-products-2022-10-20/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>brudgers</author><text>Amazon had about 460 billion dollars in revenue per as lazy a google as I could do.&lt;p&gt;This makes a billion dollar fine less than 0.25% of revenue.&lt;p&gt;Except Amazon has been doing this for years.&lt;p&gt;So a cost of doing business on the order of 0.1% at worst.&lt;p&gt;Or rounding error.</text></comment>