Consumer Manipulation Always Exists And The Weak Pay The Most - a podcast by Fixed Cost Financial

from 2019-09-17T05:00

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Episode Outline 


  1. Amazon changes its search algorithm in ways that boost its own products.

  2. Wow, that’s a surprise. Not

  3. Google has algorithm’s

  4. Facebook has them

  5. Everyone has them.  It’s called discretion.

  6. There is always a conflict of interest when you are working both sides.

  7. Great debate

  8. Regulation as a public utility

  9. Sears, Penny’s WalMart, Costco, Men’s Warehouse - you know what you’re getting

  10. Tweak here and there destroys a business

  11. Complain about any of them and you’re tagged and the search results are in the toilet

  12. Private label, Sponsored Content, Editorial content

  13. Marion County Sheriff’s Office, Ocala Star Banner, big advertising client, multi page handout, ads, most wanted, editorial, blind eye - Politics - Same with business. 

  14. Business figure out not only the client, but the way to get the attention of the prospective client.

  15. You can tell that the system’s rigged.

  16. Big boys spend big money and it crushes competition

  17. Profits over doing what’s right for the customer

  18. Brand name bigger profits

  19. Washington and states, anti trust. 

  20. But let’s think about it.  The Clinton Administration and the ABA, anti trust and squashed it.

  21. Lobbyists and it will be squashed with form over substance

  22. fiercely competitive markets,

  23. Amazon sells over 10,000 products under its own brands, according to research firm Marketplace Pulse

  24. Here’s the problem. Nobody can unplug any more. Unless you go hermit, and that’s not going to happen for 99.999% of the population. 

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