The matters in response to my earlier post.
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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
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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Where did I claim that was so in the EU? I gave supermarkets just as a typical example of business practices that occur in the wide world while addressing the general (wide world) claim by another poster that the Amazon relationship was not as a customer. Whether they do or not in the EU is irrelevant to that.
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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
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:
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.
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Yes I agree that contracts with major suppliers are likely to be secret, and that supports my refutation of the claim by another that all Amazon contracts are of a commission nature.
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Article 101 which addresses cartels and price fixing I find amusing in that the EU itself is a cartel, a cartel of nations which fix economic and other matters between them (such as manufacturing standards, taxes, movement of the workforce across borders, etc.) such that collectively they are both the world's biggest economy and biggest economic cartel.