Amazon Jacked Up Prime Day Prices, Misleading Consumers, Says Vendor (foxbusiness.com)

An anonymous reader shares a report: A Charlotte-based startup says e-commerce king Amazon jacked up their suggested retail price during the company's annual discount event -- Prime Day -- to deceive consumers into thinking that they were getting a deal, when in reality, they weren't. Jason Jacobs, founder of Remodeez, a small company that specializes in non-toxic foot deodorizers and other odor stoppers, says he had an agreement with Amazon since 2015 on a suggested retail price of $9.99 for his products and was shocked after the tech giant almost doubled that on Prime Day to make it look like people were getting a discount, when they were actually paying full price. "They showed the product at $15.42 and then exed it out to put '$9.99 for Amazon Prime Day.' And on the final day, the price was like $18.44. So, we put a support ticket in right away and I rallied some friends through social media to go to their complaint board and complain," Jacobs tells FOX Business.

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In some ways, Amazon is insufficiently managed.

[Futurepower(R)]

There are many, many other defects in Amazon management. Every web page, for example, tries to sell you something else before giving full information about a product.

Playing games with prices is EXTREMELY self-destructive. People buy much more from companies they know they can trust. When a company can't be trusted, customers must spend time thinking carefully about every item before buying.

Amazon abuses employees, according to news reports:

Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace (Aug. 15, 2015)

Worse than Wal-Mart: Amazon's sick brutality and secret history of ruthlessly intimidating workers (Feb. 23, 2014)

Amazon Under Fire Over Alleged Worker Abuse in Germany (February 19, 2013)

Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon, owns a spaceflight company, Blue Origin. Would you fly into space with a company whose owner makes abusive web pages?

Re:And So It Begins

[Penguinisto]

Actually, Amazon has been forced to collect sales taxes, even in states where it has no physical presence (at least as of April of this year). The only exceptions would be the five states e.g. Oregon) which do not charge sales tax.