I wonder how this will play out globally as nationwide is just one nation and not Worldwide.
Certainly be interesting how this plays out and did have a quick dig too see if the EU is, or has anything in the pipeline, though nothing jumping out.
So this is a story that will ripple and certainly, thanks to Washington states work, there is a smoking gun.
Will Amazon proactively get on top of this Worldwide in other countries will be most telling.
But one aspect of companies doing wrong by consumers and respective authorities fining them that always irks me - the consumers who suffered and paid the price never get a slice of those fines. That and fines of large companies has in all effect, become a revenue stream for respective government's with the consumer getting justice in name only and the government's coining it, in effect at the expense of the consumers. Be those consumers of suffered such bad company practices, or future customers who will be paying indirectly for such fines.
After all, will they force Amazon to dig in and compensate effected/impacted consumers of such price-fixing? That would be nice. Equally, be nice if Amazon in good faith did the right thing by those impacted. One can but dream and hope.
Certainly be interesting how this plays out and did have a quick dig too see if the EU is, or has anything in the pipeline, though nothing jumping out.
As for my country (UK), I did find this - https://www.gov.uk/government/case-studies/online-sellers-pr...
So this is a story that will ripple and certainly, thanks to Washington states work, there is a smoking gun.
Will Amazon proactively get on top of this Worldwide in other countries will be most telling.
But one aspect of companies doing wrong by consumers and respective authorities fining them that always irks me - the consumers who suffered and paid the price never get a slice of those fines. That and fines of large companies has in all effect, become a revenue stream for respective government's with the consumer getting justice in name only and the government's coining it, in effect at the expense of the consumers. Be those consumers of suffered such bad company practices, or future customers who will be paying indirectly for such fines.
After all, will they force Amazon to dig in and compensate effected/impacted consumers of such price-fixing? That would be nice. Equally, be nice if Amazon in good faith did the right thing by those impacted. One can but dream and hope.