Apple privately asked Amazon to block rival ads. Insider found evidence of this special treatment, while others suffer from ‘junk ads’::An internal Amazon email shows that Apple asked the e-commerce giant for special treatment that most other brands don’t get.
This basically happens with every retailer. Online or brick and mortar. Been happening since the 80’s.
Retailers use store location and proximity to other products to make money and woo manufacturers / CPGs.
Amazon is basically just doing exactly what Best Buy or your local grocery store has been doing for decades.
gregorum@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Amazon didn’t block the ads for Apple, they allowed Apple to buy all of the ad space on their product page so they could decide what went there in order to combat counterfeit products and accessories from showing up— a big problem on Amazon. The question isn’t, “why is Apple allowed to do this?” The question is, “why isn’t everyone allowed to do this?” All companies should have the ability to do this, not just a few, and people should be upset with Amazon, not Apple, for cutting off everyone from being able to buy out the ad space on their own product pages.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Seems like it’s not that everyone should be able to do this it’s that no one should have to, your product being beside advertisements for knockoffs and shit tier accessories is not ok.
gregorum@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Ok, that’s a pretty good argument. It costs a ridiculous amount of money, and not everyone can afford that.
lagomorphlecture@lemm.ee 1 year ago
This is why I no longer buy anything from Amazon except in rare cases and I never buy electronics there.