Amazon ain't serving you heat and electricity. You can go get your plastic from any number of retailers. Amazon is just automating more competitor analysis and using that data to automate pricing.
There is nothing going on here that doesn't go on in every industry. The only way they get in trouble is if they are using internal pricing data that's only available to them. In which case they can just scrape the public data instead
This isn't an interconnected two way API/algorithm. There is no collusion here. That requires a two way communication and agreement. Amazon is taking public data and automating what every company out there already does.
At best Amazon will get pegged if they are using internal pricing data, but they likely are using publicly available data from the site to avoid that.
Technical restrictions and discounts encouraging customers to keep using a single provider for all their needs, even when better alternatives were available, could be considered anti-competitive, the body said in a report earlier this year.
And what cloud provider is that, and what technical restrictions are they talking about? Sounds like bullshit.
If you want to say it's impossible for others companies to compete fine, but please don't act like AWS is twisting arms to get into companies.
First off, auto issues and recalls are a dime a dozen in the EU as well. Often for things like airbags which is far more likely to hurt you. Second, around 75k a year was when I felt personally comfortable buying a nicer car but ymmv.
Da fuq?