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  • Such a decision is not illegal since they are a marketplace, but let’s be honest; this is quite morally bad from them. The main issue is that they’ve been selling products with services competing with theirs for a very long time. So why not port prime video on other devices like the Chromecast/Apple TV? That means giving your consumers more choices on how they want to access your services. Forcing your own product on consumers when you’re the owner of the MARKETPLACE (not a dedicated brand store like Google’s, Apple’s and Microsoft’s who only sell their own products or stuff licensed by them) Is morally wrong. If consumers don’t want your product to begin with, what will entice them in buy it now when you’ve discontinued the sales of the competing products they did want? They’ll go to another retailer and buy it from them, easy as that. Those retailers will make some revenue from the sale and Amazon won’t. If nobody wants the Fire Stick, that means no sales. No sales, no profit. If nobody buys the competing products directly from Amazon, that means no additional revenue from THAT sale.
    If the fire Stick/TV was selling like cup cakes, then I would understand the decision. Right now though; I see this hurting them more than anything else.

  • So I am somewhat confused…. Amazon I think is fair to say has a huge market share of the Online market place, yet they can choose to outright ban competitors products from their website.

    Google it’s fair to say has a huge market share of the online search market place, but if they are seen to prioritize their own products/ services on THEIR SEARCH ENGINE the courts and anti trust lawyers swarm like feeding sharks.

    Can someone explain the difference in each company wanting to prioritize their products over their competitors but one of them not being allowed to?

  • I’m in market research so here’s an objective opinion:

    It’s a peculiar move from a business perspective. There is no other streaming media player that sells the volume that Chromecast does. Now when you take into consideration that the percent of CE purchases made online is higher than any other industry, it creates a competitive advantage for Amazon. However, Chromecast is sold at near manufacturing costs so there is not a big margin on it. The Apple TV though likely has a higher margin. Now Amazon hopes to drive more people to using Prime Instant Video, but this could backfire long-term. When looking at the transactional digital video industry, the lift [they hope to generate in driving more people to their iVOD platform] probably won’t be as big to make up for the lost revenues from selling Chromecast. The volume of iVOD overall is still very small and the user experience across the board is subpar compared to sVOD offerings like Netflix. The Amazon sVOD offering is ok and the experiece ok, but people with Prime don’t go the iVOD route very often.

    But the main idea behind chromecast is to drive people to the google platform of services and expose people to more ads to generate more revenue. I think everyone is making a big deal out of this a little too soon. What is very clear is that chromecast sales will take an immediate hit which Google won’t be too happy about, but many households already have a chromeast and if you have one that works, there is not really a reason to upgrade to the newer one. The long-term effects of this won’t impact the consumer. It’s going to impact Google, Amazon and Apple to varying degrees. If you look at Amazon financials, their costs continue to rise and they don’t turn a big profit (eventually investors will get sick of this, but Wall street analysts have been saying that for quite a while)

    What I’m not sure of is whether or not Amazon will allow 3rd party Marketplace sellers to sell Chromeast on Amazon. If they do, this decision by Amazon means nothing because consumers will continue purchasing the device online. But I don’t think this is going to result in drastically larger sales of Fire TV and Fire TV sticks.

    I have experience in the Consumer Electronics and Content industries, so my perspective on this takes all of this into account.

    • They have told 3rd parties that they can not offer the chromecast anymore, and have given them 30 days.

  • To cancel prime over them not selling a sub par media stick is ridiculous. You guys must not use amazon very much.

  • I read the title of the article and thought, “Wow, Amazon has some serious power to ban the sale of Google and Apple products. I bet Samsung wishes it was that powerful.”

  • Hey amazon I got my new chromecast today… I was originally waiting for amazon to have it on prime but decided to order from google 2 days ago and already have it in hand and hooked up. Sorry no amazon stick or device for me. (Replaced my old chromecast and moved my old one upstairs)

  • Well if Amazon has every right to do it. Then Google has every right to delist Amazon from Search – Ouch there goes the stock price down the shitter

  • While its their business and they can do with it whatever they please, they can’t claim to have everything from “A-Z” anymore. I wonder if they’ll change their logo?

  • So now I have to learn to write chrome extensions so I can make one that disabled all Add to Cart buttons on amazon in chrome.
    seriously though, at what point to anti-competitive laws take effect?

    • Legally, Amazon can do this and it can’t be considered anti-competitive. It is their storefront. Therefore, if they don’t want to allow competing products, they don’t have to. It’d be like going to an Apple store and saying they are anti-competitive for not selling Microsoft products.

      With that said, it is a dick move by them.

      • Comparing to an Apple store isn’t exactly the same. Apple stores only sell Apple stuff. Whereas Amazon sells pretty much everything. A better example would be if Walmart stopped selling Castrol Syntec oil because it directly competed with the Walmart brand oil.

  • That’s unacceptable to me. Limiting choice because you have a competing product. Using your power as a shopping brand to only sell your products. Going to let my prime expire and find other ways to support more open businesses.

  • Great way to turn people away from the actual Amazon service people actually care about shopping, good job?

    • its like as if you owned a hardware store, and you wanted to sell your own hammers, instead of the other brand name’s hammers…. Same thing…

  • Sounds like a lot of you guys are pissed off cause you don’t own any Amazon stock! Amazon is doing the right thing. Anyway, for god’s sakes, you wanna buy an Apple TV, buy it from Apple!

  • I bet they change course. Sooner than later. Bezos always said he wanted you to be able to buy anything on Amazon

  • So Microsoft gets investigated as anti competitive for not including links to different, browsers in Windows, and Google gets investigated as anti competitive for including its Play Services on Android Devices and in its search results, but this is supposed to be perfectly okay? It’s bad enough that Apple can get away with what Microsoft and Google can’t, but this is ridiculous. I can understand it being okay not to make apps or their services available to the competition, but refusing to sell the competitions retail products on a retail website because they compete with your own product sounds illegal to me. I hope Google and Apple file legal complaints ASAP.

    • Shut up you left wing liberal… Its direct competition to their product of course they would want to do this because of it… I surprised they still allowed the product to be sold on their website.

      • This has absolutely nothing to do with being liberal or not. it’s business 101. Amazon is a Retail seller that markets itself as having everything you need in one location. What if they started removing competitors tablets too stating that they compete with their Kindle Fire tablets? iI’s even more blatant because they only single out Apple and Google, while allowing Roku and others. Besides this being bad business and generally bad form and it’s clearly anti competitive.

        • No what is anti-competitive is to force any company to sell their competitor’s products. but your reasoning you should be required to have a Amazon Prime account and forced to buy their products.

  • Why doesn’t Prime Video work with Chromecast? Make it work with Chromecast, and I’d actually use it.

    • Apple only sells Apple products, Google only sells Google products and products made by Google partners.

      Amazon’s motto is that have you covered from A to Z (hence the arrow that goes from a to z in their Amazon logo). Not selling these other products is a lame excuse for bolstering their sales. It’s practically a bait and switch. “Oh, we don’t carry Chromecast, but we do carry the Amazon Fire Stick which works way better (read: only within our proprietary forked half-built half-working system built off of someone else’s software project and only works within Amazon’s framework of products and product partners.)

      “Amazon’s Fire Stick is a number one best seller!” (Even though we know if we carried Apple TV and Chromecast it would be in third.)

    • Apple is not a store, Apple is a computer company which also directly selling its own products.
      Amazon is a store which for whatever reason also happened to make computer products.

  • I’m lost, I could have sworn when Chromecast was 1st introduced Google said any app would be compatible by just adding a few lines of code to the app. So if Amazon wanted Prime Video to play nice with the Chromecast why don’t they just add the few lines of code? From my understanding, correct me if I am wrong, this is Amazon’s fault.

    • It is Amazon’s fault, but you think they want to say “We are no longer going to carry a competing product because we are too lazy to release an App on a competing system.”

  • Amazon barely makes money, they’re in the red, losing over $200 a year

  • I find it incredibly amusing that Amazon is saying they’re doing this because Chromecast doesn’t support Prime Video, but the Fire TV/Stick has never supported Play Video…

    I have a TV Stick in my living room for most of my viewing needs and a Chromecast in my bedroom to cast stuff off my phone. Works just fine for me, but it’d still be nice to have Play apps on the Stick.

  • Seems like a bone head business move to me. Their lawyers must realize this move mind as well be a giant billboard daring regulators to probe them for antitrust.

    • It has nothing to do with antitrust laws. There are no laws that state a retailer has to sell a product. You don’t see Google selling Fire sticks on their store, do you?

    • You are an idiot. before you open that hole between your nose and chin get educated on anti-trust laws… fricken arm chair attorney.

  • I agree with everyone that this is a very stupid move on Amazon’s part, though legally they of course are allowed to choose what they will and will not sell themselves. I wonder, though, what the European Commission will think of them blocking their 3rd party sellers from selling them, though?

    They are essentially acting as just a search engine and web host for those sellers, and this is them using a strong market position (online retail) to artificially augment a weak market position (online video), very similar to the set of circumstances for which Google is being investigated right now. The only major difference is that Amazon has a much higher marketshare in online retail than Google does in mobile phone OS’s, which would seem to make it even more clear-cut.

    As an American, I feel like it’s their site and legally they should be able to make all the mistakes they want to with it, but the EU appears to disagree with that principle…

  • Amazon is not the bad guy here. Apple and Google are. Apple does not allow Amazon Prime TV on the Apple TV. Google does not allow Amazon Prime on their Chromecast. What Amazon is doing makes perfect sense. They are a profit making business. Kudos to Amazon!!! I support their decision 100%

    • Google doesn’t allow amazon prime on their chromecast? Um, actually Amazon doesn’t allow Amazon Prime on the Chromecast. That isn’t Google. And Did Amazon develop an app for Apple TV and Apple denied it? I don’t think Amazon ever developed an App for the Apple TV, so again, not Apple denying Amazon Prime.

      • You guys need to learn a little about capitalism. Amazon is very accommodating. You can watch Amazon Prime on your iPhone or iPad. But Amazon Prime is in stiff competition with Apple and Google over their TV streaming. It’s just as Netflix is losing streaming options due to competition from Hulu, etc.

        What Amazon did makes perfect sense. Amazon is even contributing to your viewing pleasure with original series! What has Apple done for you lately?

        Give ’em hell, Amazon!

        • Your response makes no sense. You blame Google and Apple for blocking Amazon services on their devices when it is Amazon that is not developing and releasing the Apps to use on Google and Apple’s devices.

    • I think you might be incorrect. I’m not sure about Apple, but Google has never prevented Amazon from using the Chromecast.

    • Actually, Google would definitely “allow” Amazon Prime streaming on Chromecast. The APIs are open source, and all Amazon would have to do is set up their app to be compatible. The reason Amazon Prime doesn’t work with Chromecast is all because Amazon doesn’t Want their streaming service to work with a competitor’s device. They want you to buy their Fire Stick.

  • Interesting move. From my perspective it would likely devalue prime. Now that I know they will never support Chromecast/Apple Tv I certainly won’t ever buy one of their devices or consider their video/music as part of the “value” of prime. I want my content to be hardware agnostic.

  • Who cares? Its them trying to leverage their app on Android and iOS since they are not allowed to as of right now. So this will just force people to buy the device in the 100’s of other places you can buy it.

  • After Amazon’s abysmal smartphone failure, haven’t they figured out going solo might not be the best idea? They use the OS Google designed for free, yet they snub their cash cow.

    How much more revenue do they expect to receive from their, less supported by 3rd party apps, $39 Fire sticks/$99 Fire TVs? People dont want to buy multiple redundant devices. They’ll get more Prime users by branching out the reach of their services. I think Jeff Bezos should hire a new market research team…

  • I just sent an email telling Amazon how terrible the OS is on their products and that they should continue selling Chromecast, and release a Prime Video app with Chromecast support. Any Prime customers here should do the same. Maybe if we are vocal about it something will happen. Probably not, but I have over a year left on my Prime subscription. I’m not willing to give that up in protest.

  • Really annoyed Amazon Music and Instant video is not on Android TV and Nexus player. Wish it had Vudu support too.

  • Another reason to stay away from Amazon and keep pushing my wife to use jet.com for all online purchases.

    • I read about Jet recently. How do you like it thus far? I’m planning on trying their service but a testimony is always helpful.

      • My wife likes. I can’t tell for myself since I don’t do online shopping. Give it a shot.

  • To all the people saying that they are going to cancel their membership, you do realize that is like saying “I’m going to boycott Walmart” it won’t do a thing.

      • You’re not going to make a difference. That’s my point. You’d be better off emailing them.

        • There’s a lot of very vocal people, on every tech website I’ve seen, saying they’re cancelling Prime. A bunch of people cancelling a paid service means Amazon losing money. That’s a lot different than emailing them, because email doesn’t cost anything. Voting with your wallet is proof you’re serious.

      • This is America. You can sue anyone for anything. I could definitely see third-party sellers or some consumer agency bringing something to the table regarding this since there’s no real justification for it other than Amazon wanting to push their products over their competitors.

        • You can buy them anywhere else so a lawsuit like this would be thrown out in a second and Amazon isn’t the only “other” place to buy them so again, pfft.

        • This is America. You can sue anyone for anything, but that doesn’t mean you will win or even get a judge to hear the case. It doesn’t matter if there is no real justification for Amazon wanting to push their products over a competitor. Antitrust laws do not exist to force a company to sell a competitor’s product. If they did, you’d have Apple Stores being forced to sell Microsoft, Lenovo, Dell, HP and all their competitors products. This is no different. Just because a retailer sells a product does not mean they always have to sell said product.

          • Oh, I never said it would be a *successful* lawsuit, but it would not surprise me at all if there was one because, again, ‘Murrica.

    • It saddens me that so many people think there can somehow be a viable lawsuit over this.

      • Well when a person can successfully sue someone for having the audacity to bring them cookies to their doorstep, suddenly it’s not so sad.

        • Well the full story to that was the woman in question had an anxiety attack since she had recently been robbed several times. Why an adult would think it was a good idea to go around knocking on people’s doors at 10:30 at night and leave cookies on their doorstep, even if they are doing it with good intent is an error in judgment. And they only were successfully sued for the damages they incurred (IE: the medical bills), they didn’t have to pay for anything other than what their actions incurred. I don’t see how that has any basis in the argument you are making.

          • Right, except they also offered to pay her medical bills too but she went ahead and sued them anyway, and the end result was the same except for the complete waste of everyone’s time. Honestly, if you can’t see the stupidity in all that then I should probably just sue you.

          • Well I’m sure she went ahead and sued them anyways because she thought she could get more out of them. She sued for anguish too, she lost that part of it though.

  • I’m not really sure Amazon has “every right to do this”. They pretty much have a monopoly in online shopping and this is pretty clearly anticompetitive behavior that can get them into trouble. But in the meantime we can all just tell Amazon how we feel by reviewing their Fire TV products.

    • Because Amazon is still a retailer and they have a right to determine what they sell. Just because they are refusing to sell a competitors product doesn’t make this anticompetitive behavior. anticompetitive behavior would actually be if a law existed to force a retailer to sell something that could detract from their business.

  • What about the Antitrust Laws? This seems to limit competition per Clayton Antitrust Law, Interesting development

    • What about Antitrust Laws? Antitrust laws are mainly for mergers or for not allowing a company to force you to buy something (Say, you can only buy product A if you also buy product B from us). They don’t tell retailers what they can and can’t sell.

  • Might have to cancel my Prime membership on principle. If enough people do this they will have a reversal of policy. This is a slippery slope they’re on. And I, for one, don’t like doing business with companies that are anti consumer or consumer choice

      • Never said that. I never said I wasn’t going to ship with then either. But canceling the Prime membership will send a message because there use it as a key metric. They also know there is a high rate of purchases associated with Prime members. But you know, I have a fire TV and a Chromecast. Guess which one I will use for my movie rentals?

        • Your loss bro – I will take all the Amazon music, shipping, and video I can, for 99 bucks it’s a steal.

          • Your choice, and i respect that. I’m not losing much. We buy a lot of study from them, and I supported then as they refused to have Prime videos on Android. Now they do. I’ll take a bit of inconvenience until they come to their senses.

          • Have you used Alexa yet ?!?!? I wish I had her when I was a kid with my homework, it’s pretty darn cool.

    • Really? You would give up your membership over this, man you are really passionate about this huh. You know you can buy the items everywhere else right?

    • Meh – my TV has the Amazon Prime Video app built-in, so I wasn’t using a media player for that content anyways. No reason for me to cancel my Prime account.

      I still dislike that the Amazon executives seem to think the public will buy the excuse other players are banned because the players are at fault for not interacting well with Prime content; when the real issue is Amazon refusing to use the available APIs. Basically they had a little fit over other players being in their playground, and like a spoiled child they’re now kicking out the other kids from their yard.

      • Well, technically they are right. The other players don’t work at all with Prime content. They aren’t going to point out that it is their fault for not allowing the others to work with their content.

  • the reason i shop amazon is because everything is available there. if they start cherry picking what they dont like, i will be turned off. maybe http://www.JET.com with “take off”.

  • Successful store should be technology-agnostic. This is a very bad move and will backfire at Amazon in the future.
    Well, we still have eBay and direct sales from Google.
    One more reason for not getting into Amazon ecosystem.

  • Why didn’t they think of this when they released the Fire Phone. Think of all the sales they would’ve gotten when it was the only phone you could buy on Amazon!

  • Amazon chooses not to support Chromecast. it is there fault that the product would confuse consumers.

  • Amazon clearly thinks they can step in and challenge Google and Apple directly in the mobile entertainment world. I have a feeling they are going to fail.

    • Like amazon music for prime, not even a close competitor to any of the others out there. I feel too much like it is just a free sample and they are trying to up sell me too much and not very enjoyable right now.

  • It brings attention that they are threatened thereby legitimizing the competition. Good move just backfired. But on a side note i would rather buy it from google online or best buy in person anyways.

  • I think this is short cited as Amazon had the ability to be the company that was supported on every system which is what I was hoping for. Instead they are moving toward a more walled system. I was really hoping for Chromecast support but instead I might end up canceling my Prime membership as I already have Netflix and found having to use my PS3 to watch Prime too much of a process as it is. I can just put my Prime membership towards renting movies instead which will probably be done through Google. Never mind the fact that every store in my area will price match Amazon so I’ll purchase less items from them. This move might cost them thousands of dollars and I’m just representing one family if others have the same idea this could actually affect there thinking on this decision.

    • If you’re relying on your Prime membership for their video offerings, you are grossly misusing Prime.

      • That is not the only thing I use Prime for as I typically order quite a bit from Amazon but as Amazon opened a warehouse in my area I now pay taxes and most stores price match I really gain nothing. It is also why I say this decision could cost them thousands because if I cancel I would stop ordering anything from them.

    • Don’t do it, I have two, they are horribly under powered.

      I know this was sarcasm but this does not stop me from expressing my hatred for fire sticks.

        • Sling TV. Works flawlessly on android. It is a suttery mess on amazon fire sticks. I was so happy when sling announced chromecast support is coming.

  • Payback you can no longer reach the amazon site from an android or apple device… Amazon.com now only an exclusive Windows Mobile website

  • Im not sure if the data is available but I would imagine most, if not nearly all apple tv and chromecast sales would have been through amazon, especially outside of the US. It’ll be a huge hit on the new ones

  • It’s a childish move on the part of Amazon, though I understand the rationale behind it. If Amazon doesn’t want my money for these products, I’ll happily buy them elsewhere.

    • Exactly. I was waiting for the new Chromecast Audio to hit Amazon. This article reveals why it never showed. . Someone else was happy to take my money.

    • Amazon isn’t getting your money for these devices. Google and Apple would be. They can sell directly through Amazon.

      • If you think Amazon doesn’t get a cut of the sale when these items are purchased through their online marketplace, you are kidding yourself.

        • (re-reads post and thread for where I said that….. can’t find it….)

          I think you’re confusing what I said. I didn’t say Google gets a cut from using the Chromecast. I’m making the statement that Amazon stopped selling the Chromecast and Apple TV to not compete against their own Fire products. Every Chromecast or Apple TV sold on Amazon is a FireTV Stick or FireTV NOT sold. Basically Google and Apple as sellers would be making money through the Amazon marketplace.

          Also, I know people have said that Amazon does in fact get a percentage of the sale but that’s a horrible argument? Would you rather have 5 percent of $100 dollars, or 100 percent of 40 dollars?

          • By that logic they need to stop selling Rokus, Android TV boxes, Xboxs, and Playstations. Because those devices duplicate the functionality of the Fire TV line, and cut into their sales. The fact is that for whatever reason Amazon refuses to implement Amazon Video on the Chromecast and Apple TV, then got butthurt that they aren’t on those devices and stopped selling them to “avoid customer confusion.”

  • This doesn’t really bother me that much, seeing that if I was to price an Apple TV or Chromecast or Nexus Player (those are also included), then I’d just get it priced matched at Best Buy.

    If I want to watch Amazon Instant video I won’t (EVER) be buying an amazon OS product to do so…. I have an Xbox. Done and Done.

    • I have never found a reason to use prime video. My couple of attempts have left me annoyed with the UI, and bouncing straight back to netflix.

      • At least on the xbox, Netflix has the worst UI because they try to be so different. Amazon at least follows standard guidelines, and I think is designed better.

      • Couldn’t agree more! I want to use it but don’t have time to waste on learning the interface.

  • Well I can see why Target doesn’t want to sell Amazon tablets, cause its a direct channel to buy products from Amazon. But this is just dumb.

    • Target and Amazon used to have a relationship several years ago. I don’t know what happened between those two Toys R Us and babies r us they were all tied together.

      • The only relationship they had was in the running and distribution of their online sales. A lot of small companies uses Amazon’s platform to manage their online distribution. Target, thought that if they wanted to grow their online presence, they needed to do it themselves instead of paying Amazon to do so.

  • If I can’t buy Chromecast, how am I going to stream my Amazon video to my TV? An Amazon Stick? Hahaha… no really…

      • Funny. I do it all the time from my tablet. Cast screen from the notification pulldowj menu. Done deal.

        • Yea, that’s a pretty solid work around. Even if it’s a bit annoying that you can’t use your device at the same time

          • Everyone knows Apple TV only likes to play with other Apple products. Chromecast, on the other hand, is a swinger.

      • I’m not a lawyer and I didn’t even stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night but it just seems to me that because they are purposely trying to stifle the competition that this is ripe for an antitrust lawsuit

        • It is a store that is deciding not to sell something. This happens all the times with stores. A retailer still has the right to sell what they wish to sell.

  • They can do this because they know the vast majority of people aren’t willing to pay 0.5% more for things and buy them somewhere else. This will have zero affect on amazon’s sales. I guarantee it.

  • Inb4 they stop selling sell phones that have the Play Store installed but not the Amazon App Store to “avoid confusion” How about you just do what you’re supposed to and make sure you service is available on many platforms? I guess this is much easier..

  • So because of Amazon’s outright refusal to support Android and Apple TV they will ban sales because those devices don’t have Amazon Instant/Prime Video.

    Dear god this logic…

      • I was thinking the same thing.

        “Over the last three years, Prime Video has become an important part of Prime. It’s important that the streaming media players we sell interact well with Prime Video in order to avoid customer confusion.”

        The player itself has available APIs for app developers, Amazon just refuses to implement them. Apparently not implementing the APIs wasn’t doing enough to turn people towards their own players, so they had to go all draconian and ban the competition entirely to try to force it.

        I’m fine using other media players – hurry for competition! I just dislike this narcissistic logic from Amazon corporate.

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      • I’d join Prime if it had Chromecast support. Not going to buy Fire TV just to stream prime. I don’t even know if Fire TV does any of the capabilities that chromecast can.

        They didn’t say they banned Nexus/ Android TV which is odd. So will they ban Android Smart TV’s as well. Where Does it Stop Amazon?

    • Ever since that memo leaked out about the dismal Amazon working conditions, it seems Amazon is legitimately trying to shed it’s “Good Guy” image that it’s had for years. Also, Amazon’s best device was the Kindle (the e-ink ones anyway)

    • It does seem shady at first glance, but they do have their own proprietary hardware and software in direct competition to those items. It is kind of similar to Google selling iPhones in the Google Store, or being able to walk into an Apple Store and buy a Nexus. We have just been used to going on Amazon to find everything and forget they have their own services to be concerned with, not to mention they hardly ever turn a profit

      • Except the difference is that Apple and Google’s stores don’t purport to sell everything you’re looking for, as Amazon does. Apple and Google only sell their own products and a few various partner products that complement their own. Amazon is an e-commerce hub. They certainly have the right to decide what products are sold through their service, but I think it’s a bad PR move.

      • If what you said was even remotely accurate amazon would only sell the Echo, Amazon TV/Stick… and some 3rd party accessories. as you can go to any branded store and do… No its nothing like your example… Amazon is a market place for products… Or at least thats what they have been branding themselves as for years.

    • This makes me regret my signing up for Prime with their special offer recently. I certainly will not be renewing at full price.
      But, for now, I am going to see how many regularly expensive shipping things I can find to buy such as the 10’x10′ canopy that I bought which wanted about $50 for regular shipping that I got free 2 day shipping on.

  • I guess it makes sense for them, but it’s not even a slight inconvenience for most people who are going to buy the products anyway. Just seems like unnecessary bad PR.

  • Grab popcorn. This is why we can’t have nice things. Everyone wants their own walled garden.

  • So much for hoping the Amazon / Google feud would end so I can get prime video on my Nexus Players.

    Damn you, Amazon! Childish BS.

    • Well, Google did kick Amazon out of Google Play because it was also another app marketplace. I can see the bitterness.

  • Really Amazon, you’re pulling an Apple, bad move son!
    By the way Amazon, we’re not confused, you are.

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