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German antitrust regulators warned Amazon Price mechanisms for the company’s third party vendors on Monday were able to manage the posters of competitive law.
Federal Cartel Office gossip In the initial assessment of the Price Control of the Price Control to the Price Control and interfering with freedom to determine the price of “market rules in the transparent market.”
Amazon uses algorithic and statistical models to calculate certain price caps for products. The flag can be reduced in “Prices” or “Prices” or “Prices” or “Prices” or “Prices” may be reduced in search results or “prices that are very high” or “prices that are not competitive.”
The buyer box is a drop-down list first when the visitor scored a particular product and a shopkeeper is a list purchased when “add” to the “Basket”.
“The online retailer in Germany is mainly determined by the rules for the Amazon trading platform,” said Federal Cartel Office President Andreas Mundt said in a statement. “Amazon competes with retailers in other marketers, rivals, even in the form of rivals, even in the form of price caps on its platform.
Amazon’s prices can only hurt other retailers, but also threatening the work of sellers, but the cartel office said.
Amazon spokesman said strong disagreements with the initial results of the company’s cartel office. They added that any change in Price Mechanisms of Amazon would “be bad for customers and seller for partners selling.”
“If Amazon would prevent us from helping to find competitive valuables, it will lead to a bad shopping experience for us, because this will lead to a bad shopping experience to promote unheast or even insulting prices,” the press secretary said. “It will make you think that they receive good value when their customers are not in reality.”
Amazon can give an opinion on the initial assessment of the catalog office before final decision.
Amazon In 2022 The European Union, which examines the use of the seller information and received the box experiences, reached an agreement with Antitrest regulators. As part of the settlement, when Amazon has a different competition proposal in connection with the price or delivery, it agreed to show a second purchase box in the products sold in Europe.
The US Federal Trade Commission also learns to use price algorithms using Price Algorithms in the third party market, as part of Amazon’s wide range of antitrust Was presented in 2023. Amazon said the FTC complaint was “mistaken to the facts and law.”
The case is preparing to go to court in October 2026.
