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> Importantly, the end seller of the vehicle is still the dealer; Amazon’s platform will be the middleman between the customer and the dealership. It’s unclear whether the company is talking to other automakers about listing their vehicles on the site.

Doesn't get rid of dealerships. Still interesting though.

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Classic example of the 99.9% not being able to lobby enough to beat the 0.1% of scalpers.

Highest priority is to take down the ~5 US medical cartels. After that, I imagine only real estate matches anything that has anti-consumer and pro-business as US medical. Then.... after that, dealerships?

I was excited because that’s literally the killer feature. The dealer is the worst part because the bad ones tie up inventory and the good ones are always sold out and not getting enough allocated to account for their higher volume

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