BREAKING: We just sued Amazon over what we believe was a vast, ad-rigging scheme. We believe Amazon found a way to charge a few extra pennies to an enormous number of transactions, adding up to over $20 billion in illegal charges. This is about how something becomes a "Sponsored product." Amazon lets businesses bid to be "Sponsored" but it told businesses that the highest bid would only pay slightly more than the second-highest bid. For example: If you bid $1 to have your product “Sponsored” and the next-highest bid is $0.50, you should pay about $0.51. But we believe that Amazon would run the auction, see those bids, and then secretly raise the second-place price so it could charge the winner more. It was a gradual strategy based on concealment. Internal Amazon documents show they tested how much they could raise those hidden charges without advertisers catching on, then raised them more when businesses didn’t react, then gave false answers when businesses started asking questions. This is a case about affordability, fair competition, and basic honesty in the marketplace. My thanks to the big bipartisan team on this, from AGs across the country to the FTC.

Zip Airlines keeping it real with that last picture...

Saw this while opening a new case:

Is @amazon not giving the option to split shipments? Amazon-optimized Says Region is at capacity Non partnered carrier is available @amznsellerhelp

So in my experience you can set your sourcing costs to 40% of your sales price WITHOUT providing documentation. Anything above that and they want documentation.

For nine months, my wife, Brooklyn, carried our baby boy. And for nine months, we lived in a place between hope and heartbreak. Early in the pregnancy, we learned something was terribly wrong. Around the three- to four-month mark, doctors told us our son had severe hydrocephalus — fluid building so rapidly in his brain that it pushed everything aside. They used to call it “water on the brain,” but the simplicity of the name didn’t soften the reality. We were eventually referred to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, where some of the best fetal specialists in the country met with us. And they gave us the kind of news no parent is ever prepared to hear. His condition was so severe, so extreme, that they stopped measuring. There was no point, they said. The MRI images were devastating. We were told there was a greater than 90% chance our son would either: • Die shortly after birth, or • Survive with such profound cognitive impairment that life — real life — would not be possible. We sat through meetings no parent should ever sit through. Conversations about breathing tubes. About how long to try. About the moment we might have to make the decision to let him go. Brooklyn moved to Cincinnati to be close to the hospital. I drove back and forth — working, caring for our daughters Sophie and Lily, and trying to keep our home standing while our world felt like it was falling apart. Then came July 8th. Just 15 minutes before Brooklyn’s C-section, we sat with doctors again and discussed when — not if — we might have to remove life support and let our son go to heaven. I don’t have words for that kind of pain. And then — Charlie Edward Schnarr entered this world crying. A strong, loud, defiant cry. The most beautiful sound I have ever heard. He stayed in the NICU until yesterday… and now we are home. Together. Holding him. Loving him. Watching him breathe. Watching him live. He has mild ventricular enlargement we will keep an eye on — but otherwise? He is thriving. Eating. Wiggling. Yawning. Gripping our fingers. Looking around at a world that was never supposed to be his. The doctors have no explanation. They said his brain somehow cleared the blockage on its own — something none of them have seen in a case this severe. The word that kept echoing through the NICU from seasoned nurses and top specialists was the same: “Miracle.” “Divine intervention.” They said it. Not us. We know thousands of people — family, friends, coworkers, strangers — were praying for our son. I believe with everything in me that God heard those prayers. That He placed His hand on Charlie. That He said, not this one. I will spend the rest of my life thanking Him. To every person who prayed for us — every text, every message, every whispered intention — thank you. You carried us when we were too exhausted to carry ourselves. Prayer is real. God is real. And miracles… they still happen. With a full and grateful heart, —Nick

reuters.com/legal/government… Maybe reach out to your state reps and get it on their radar. @ShinghiD, maybe a good thing for the e-com lobby group to highlight.

Anyone using a pallet stacker like this one pictured? What's a good brand or just buy a random Chinese brand and call it good?

BREAKING: Amazon, $AMZN, first day traffic for Amazon Prime Day is down 41%, per Bloomberg.

BREAKING: AG Pam Bondi is asked about the minute missing from the Epstein DOJ minute. Trump says, "Are you still talking about Jeffery Epstein?"

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

Well that's one way to make the 10% tariffs seem reasonable.

Raising the debt limit by $5,000,000,000,000 - the largest amount in history - in one bill is reckless and irresponsible. President Trump and DOGE are aggressively finding things to cut, but big-spenders in Congress don’t want to make those cuts permanent. If we kick the debt deadline two years down the road, the cuts will never happen. I propose we take three months to make the cuts real, then address the debt limit alongside the cuts.

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I'm getting a TON of 'refused delivery' returns all the sudden. My gut is telling me it's a lazy Amazon delivery driver but just checking the pulse if anyone else it experiencing this and any tips to fight it.

Apparently iPhones have a max limit for tabs and turns out I have a problem