Amazon.com used a series of illegal strategies to boost profits at its online retail empire, including an algorithm that pushed up prices U.S. households paid by more than $1 billion, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission detailed in a new court filing on Thursday.
What’s even wilder is that Amazon made no profit for the first 20 years of its existence, something the Feds claim makes Amazon even more dangerous as they spent considerable time building their network and have now turned on full money making mode.
That was just creative accounting so they wouldn’t have to pay tax.
Oh… this huge pile of revenue? That’s not profit. We’re reinvesting it into logistics and executive salaries. We lost money this year. -Amazon