by Theo Wayt at New York Post
Amazon wants to enlist third-party sellers in its fight against an antitrust bill — but many of the sellers support the legislation and have accused the company of spreading “propaganda” and treating them like “morons.”
In a post on Amazon’s forum for third-party merchants who sell goods through the site, Amazon vice president of selling partner services Dharmesh Mehta urged sellers to write to their senators to oppose a bipartisan antirust bill called the American Innovation and Choice Online Act.
The bill, co-sponsored by Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) would stop sites including Amazon and Google from giving their own products a leg up in search results.
For example, when a customer searches “black T-shirt” on Amazon’s site, the company would be barred from giving Amazon-brand T-shirts priority over shirts sold by third-party sellers.
Mehta prodded third-party sellers to help kill the bill because it “could jeopardize Amazon’s ability to operate a marketplace service and, as a result, your business’s ability to sell in our store.”…
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