Amazon will be forced to face a lawsuit in California accusing it of raising prices across the internet.
Judge
Ethan Schulman in San Francisco Superior Court said that the alleged
effects of Amazon's policies toward third-party sellers "have had the
anticompetitive effect of raising prices."
- A
California judge threw out Amazon's bid to dismiss a lawsuit accusing
the company of forcing merchants to accept illegal policies.
- The policies in question refer to contractual obligations specified in Amazon's contracts with third-party sellers.
- The obligations prohibit sellers from offering their products at lower prices on other websites, including their own.
- The
lawsuit alleges that these conditions artificially raise the prices of
items throughout the internet and artificially reinforce Amazon's market
dominance.
