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@Ric_RTP I thought the president said *no* Collusion

Amazon just got caught running a secret price manipulation operation with Levi's, Home Depot, Walmart, and many more. Every time you "comparison shopped" online, you were looking at prices that were already rigged. Here's what happened: Amazon would monitor prices on Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Home Depot, and Chewy in real time. The second a competitor listed a product cheaper than Amazon, they'd contact the brand directly and tell them to "fix it." And the exact emails are now PUBLIC. Amazon sent Levi's links to two Walmart listings with the subject line "styles of concern." They basically said the prices on Walmart are too low and we have a problem. The next day, Levi's responded: "I talked to Walmart and they have partnered with us to take Easy Khaki Classic fit back up to ladder SPP price, $29.99 immediately." Levi's literally called Walmart and told them to raise the price. Because Amazon told Levi's to make the call. Walmart complied. Then Amazon matched the HIGHER price. Both retailers ended up charging more. The customer paid extra. Nobody competed. Same playbook with Hanes: Amazon sent them links showing Target and Walmart prices were lower. Hanes confirmed they "reached out to Target and Walmart to have the prices increased." Target increased the prices. Walmart increased the prices. Amazon kept their margins. But it gets even worse... Amazon told Allergan (the company that makes eye drops) that their product was "suppressed" on Amazon because it was cheaper on another site. Allergan responded: "Walmart got their price back up to $16.99." Amazon then unsuppressed the listing. They did this with pet treats on Chewy. Furniture on Home Depot. Products across dozens of categories spanning YEARS. The mechanism is simple but terrifying: If you're a brand and you sell cheaper on Walmart than on Amazon, Amazon suppresses your product, removes you from the Buy Box, buries you in search results, and effectively makes you invisible to 300 million customers. Brands can't afford that. So they call Walmart and Target and say "raise your prices or we'll lose our Amazon listings." Walmart and Target comply because they need the brand's products. Amazon captures 40 cents of every dollar spent online in America. That gives them the leverage to set prices across THE ENTIRE internet. Not just their own platform. So turns out, you were never comparison shopping. You were looking at a coordinated price floor set by Amazon through backroom phone calls between brands and their competitors. "Amazon is working to make your life more unaffordable." 3 separate antitrust trials are now scheduled for 2027. The FTC has its own case. 18 states plus the DOJ are piling on. This is literally happening during the WORST affordability crisis in a generation. Groceries up 25% since 2020. Housing unaffordable. Wages flat. And the largest ecommerce company on Earth has been secretly coordinating with brands to make sure you can't find a cheaper price ANYWHERE. "Competition" in retail is just a fantasy.

@FahadsXid @PokeTCGiveaways @cob_animates No, I know her parents - it’s her parents.

@PokeTCGiveaways @cob_animates Nah kids are like that

Fair play to the vendors, they handled it well. I’d be embarrassed if I was the kids parent.

@BQ_Sports @CFBKings Good game to go to for Sooners! To be fair, everyone also lucked out when Baylor gave themselves the Death Penalty in 2016.

@ADreamTooSoonF1 @CFBKings True. We kinda lucked into winning it in 2015 by playing BU, TCU, and OSU backup QB’s. Twas a great game that year in Waco! The only game I’ve been to McLane But that’s why I also mentioned the following 5 years where OU continued to dominate the conference

The Week 7 AP Top 5 during the 2015 College Football season 🏈

@ChrisCillizza Did you use your insider knowledge to bet on the game?

I just paid 30 dollars to see my 13 year old play basketball. Youth sports are broken

@mpk62 @johnarnold Would you have been able to buy the house if you didn’t sell your collection? You may have timed the market perfectly on basketball cards in the mid-90s.

@johnarnold Basketball cards I bought with my paper route money (1970-76) cost me like $500 tops. Fast forward to 1995, I sold and used the $ to pay off my student loans and put down a deposit on a house. I still regret selling. I think these cards are likely up 15x since.

Not to romanticize the past, but $20 used to buy the whole box of cards. Now that can be the cost per card, and the hobby feels more like a lottery for a rare insert than collecting.

@BQ_Sports @CFBKings Squeaked out a win against a freshman back-up QB and third string QB. If BU’s starting QB didn’t break his neck, sky was the limit for 2015 Baylor. OU had Baker Mayfield, was a great game.

@CFBKings OU beat both Baylor and TCU in the coming weeks and proceeded to rack up 6 straight Big 12 titles

@Martinez050408 @CFBKings Three*

@CFBKings 2 big 12 teams in the top 5 they wouldn’t let that happen anymore

@1keezybaby That white 3GS pulled more @$$ than a toilet seat!

iPhone users only ‼️ What was your first iPhone ?

@exec_sum @litcapital It’s time

BREAKING: Intel ($INTC) shares have officially recovered all losses from the 2000 dot-com bubble burst

@ThePayDayVault LOL, underrated

Hot take: I think Team Rocket might be the most underrated OG set

@WillyFoosball Wow, Wrong.

Last QB Drafted From Each Big 12 School: Arizona: Nick Foles (2012) Arizona State: Brock Osweiler (2012) Baylor: Robert Griffin III (2012) BYU: Zach Wilson (2021 Cincinnati: Desmond Ridder (2022) Colorado: Shedeur Sanders (2025) Houston: Clayton Tune (2023) Iowa State: Brock Purdy (2022) Kansas: Mike Norseth (1986) Kansas State: Josh Freeman (2009) Oklahoma State: Mason Rudolph (2018) TCU: Max Duggan (2023) Texas Tech: Patrick Mahomes (2017) UCF: Blake Bortles (2014) Utah: Alex Smith (2005) West Virginia: Geno Smith (2013)

@texasrunnerDFW I’m probably going to take a six figure loss on paper, but what am I gonna do? I’ve put my life on hold for nearly a decade trying to time the market.

We tried to warn you.

@JakeSucky Obviously not a minority or else she would’ve been shot

A 91 year old grandmother was given a welfare check after being unresponsive to her family. When police showed up, she was in her room breaking her personal record on a video game😭 Via News 5 Cleveland

@Prof_Atikin Three guaranteed pulls

Why is this product 50$ ?

@CardGameNomad I bought a pallet of these things

Y'all really have no idea how good we had it.

@PleaseBearW_Me I’m a huge Rob fan (in fact I played with him) BUT keep in mind, Nick Florence broke Rob’s passing record the following year. Rob was exceptional, but a product of the Briles’ system. I don’t know if that was factored in here, Luck = elite NFL talent, similar college success.

Ranking Luck > Griffin III is an odd choice considering they were head to head at their peak in 2011 and the most prestigious award, for the best player in the nation, went to RG3

@unusual_whales At least we’ll go down in comfort

AG Paxton has launched investigation into Lululemon, $LULU, over the potential presence of toxic "forever chemicals" in activewear.

@mark_hokie Does your mother know you’re playing on the phone?

What if, instead of a full-on merger, the ACC and Big XII formed a new conference composed of the "best" program from each state, plus a bonus from FL, TX, and CA? It might look like this: accfootballrx.blogspot.com/2024/08/best-f… It works out to 12 on each side of the Mississippi River!

@KentGarrison Spyware

Shoutout to all the dads that paid five grand for this in 2004

@GrayGrundhoefer ready to learn Chinese?

Baylor freshman wing Tounde Yessoufou will enter the NBA Draft. #SicEm 🐻