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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
Amazon is only a retailer/business and is entitled to do business or not do business with anyone they choose. Be it a customer or a vendor.
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yes, but it becomes scary when they appear to abuse that power and when you may have a lot invested in the relationship e.g. digital content owned, services paid for up to a year in advance ( prime video, audible books, ... ) & where you may also have marketplace seller reputation...
same goes for ebay - google finds many "innocent" but "blacklisted for life" ebay policy "victims".
with pretty much any retailer bar those two, I would lose no sleep if unable to use them in future, but amazon & ebay are the two places where I buy almost all my stuff, and where I have seller ratings that I would hate to lose.
maybe the moral here is never to become over-dependent on any single corporation, especially those with no physical presence where you cannot go sort things out face-to-face.