Amazon pricing class certified with 10M Walmart and eBay shoppers
A federal court order unsealed Monday reveals roughly 10 million Walmart and eBay shoppers are in the class certified last month against Amazon. The suit claims Amazon built an artificial, anticompetitive pricing floor affecting goods sold off its own platform.
A newly unsealed order has put a hard number on the crowd suing Amazon over its pricing tactics: about 10 million Walmart and eBay shoppers are now part of the certified class. The order, unsealed Monday in a Washington federal court, also spells out the criteria that decide who qualifies for the group, according to Law360.
The certification itself came last month. The lawsuit accuses Amazon of engineering an artificial, anticompetitive pricing floor — one that allegedly shaped prices for goods sold on rival platforms, not just on Amazon's own storefront.
The scale is the headline here. A class of millions, pulled from shoppers on two of Amazon's biggest competitors, signals the case reaches well past Amazon's own marketplace and into how prices get set across e-commerce.
Class certification is a key milestone in antitrust litigation, letting a huge pool of consumers pursue claims as one group instead of filing individually. The case continues in Washington federal court.
Law360's report did not include a response from Amazon.
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Source: law360.com
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