“David Barnett, the CEO and Founder of PopSockets, testified at the field hearing that Amazon required his company ‘to pay almost two million in marketing dollars in order to remove illegal product from the Amazon marketplace.’”
on page 51 of:
https://judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/competition_in_digital_markets.pdf?utm_campaign=4493-519
“During the investigation, the Subcommittee heard repeated concerns that Amazon leverages its access to third-party sellers’ data to
identify and replicate popular and profitable products from among the hundreds of millions of listings on its marketplace.
“Armed with this information, it appears that Amazon would:
“(1) copy the product to create a competing private-label product; or
“(2) identify and source the product directly from the manufacturer to free ride off the seller’s efforts, and then cut that seller out of the equation.
on pages 274-275 of:
https://judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/competition_in_digital_markets.pdf?utm_campaign=4493-519