(01-09-2021, 11:36 PM)Bchbunnie4 Wrote: I know quite a few people that sell on amazon. Amazon has a lovely habit of screwing their sellers over. They like to look for the profitable items that are being sold and suddenly start undercutting their own sellers buy selling that product themselves. They will make you submit invoices for where you bought your items and then suddenly you won’t be able to source them anymore. Pretty crappy way to treat people that have made you money.

That seems to be a modus operandi of theirs for quite a while. I remember reading about entrepreneurs losing everything because Amazon undercut them. 

Elon Musk is a billionaire cool guy who does cool things. Most people like him. Seeing Amazon crash would be easy to watch for a lot of people because Jeff Bezos is such a shifty looking geek. He would definitely not win a battle of popular opinion. 

But dammit, Amazon is so convenient...

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(01-09-2021, 11:40 PM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote:

(01-09-2021, 11:36 PM)Bchbunnie4 Wrote: I know quite a few people that sell on amazon. Amazon has a lovely habit of screwing their sellers over. They like to look for the profitable items that are being sold and suddenly start undercutting their own sellers buy selling that product themselves. They will make you submit invoices for where you bought your items and then suddenly you won’t be able to source them anymore. Pretty crappy way to treat people that have made you money.

Now you know why Jeff's wife left him for the pool guy.

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(01-09-2021, 11:39 PM)homebiscuit Wrote: It won't be Elon. SpaceX depends too heavily on NASA contracts. Besides, Elon adheres to the truism of not mixing politics with business. But I wouldn't be surprised if he helps organize something behind closed doors.

What does NASA have to do with Google and Apple?

Musk has made some comments (in his weird way) about politics and even encouraged Portnoy to run for president.  He certainly has his beliefs. Cook also wouldnt take his call to buy Tesla when they were in the dumps so there is likely some ego there too. The Tesla OS runs on Linux so I'm sure they already have a solid mobile infrastructure to build off of. 

Intriguing to think about.

Elon does not want to rile politicians who can influence and dictate his ability to secure government (NASA) contracts.

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