Washington state shuts down Amazon price-fixing program nationwide
I&#x27;m confused why this is anti-trust. Isn&#x27;t this how all wholesale vendor deals work?<p>Regular wholesale: &quot;We&#x27;ll buy 200 units from you at $20 each. I&#x27;ll sell them for some other amount, you don&#x27;t need to care about it&quot;.<p>Amazon in this example: &quot;We&#x27;ll buy 1 units from you at $20 each. I&#x27;ll sell them for some other amount, you don&#x27;t need to care about it. Finally, don&#x27;t worry about the wholesale rate for a single unit, we will make another 200 offers like this very soon.&quot;.<p>Why is there a legal difference between buying in bulk once and buying 1 many times?<p>Disclaimer: I used to work for Amazon in Marketplace, but never on this feature.