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Originally Posted by AnotherCat
A very visible, but just one of many examples, is supermarkets where the supermarket as a customer may require its suppliers to offer them prices which are no higher than those the supplier sells at to the supermarket's competitors, and if they don't they drop the line.
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Where is this visible in the EU?
I just googled, looking at search terms such as:
mfn tesco or carrefour
And I failed to find the visible evidence. I may be missing it and will be glad to be enlightened.
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Originally Posted by AnotherCat
So I am waiting for a trusted source which validates your claim that Amazon requires to be offered the cheapest selling price by its suppliers i.e. terms and conditions in which Amazon requires the price of the supply to it to be lower than the same supply to the seller's other customers.
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The contracts between Amazon and the major publishers are secret. The European Commissioner for Competition, and her staff, plan to break through this secrecy. Then they will know. And if Amazon and/or publishers are charged with a violation, we will know:
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Margrethe Vestager, the EU’s antitrust chief, said she wants to ensure “that Amazon’s arrangements with publishers aren’t harmful to consumers, by preventing other e-book distributors from innovating and competing effectively with Amazon.”
“Our investigation will show if such concerns are justified,” Ms. Vestager said in a statement.
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I would be surprised if Amazon's contract with, say, HarperCollins, calls for it to get better terms than any other retailer. Perhaps the contract calls for wholesale prices tied with the cheapest, or includes a complex formulation coming close to that.
Note that the word cheapest is not present in the relevant law:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articl...European_Union