If you sell 100 soaps for a loss of $1 each, you lose $100. If Amazon competes b...

		WalterBright on Oct 4, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon used algorithm to test how much it could ra... If you sell 100 soaps for a loss of $1 each, you lose $100. If Amazon competes by selling 10,000 soaps for a loss of $1 each, Amazon loses $10,000. This is a losing proposition for Amazon. Spread that over its product line, and it is not sustainable.