Maybe I can clarify my earlier statements in a 'purely hypothetical' context without incurring the wrath of the Gods
. Let us suppose a purely ficticious company set themselves up to provide space for people to sell their wares. For the service they provide, they charge a percentage of the sellers total price including shipping and a small fee for being able to sell the item in 'their' space.
One of the world wide locations has a small number of citizens and therefore a significantly smaller number of buyers and sellers of wares. As a direct result of this. the operation of the company providing the space is markedly less financially rewarding in that location. It still generates a profit for the company but not at the rate that other markets do.
Corporate voices wail and Corporate hands wring until the decision to force the market to become more profitable is made. the decision also contains a caveat that if this part of the Company does not become as financially rewarding as other parts of the market it will close down.
Now begins the effort to force this smaller market to increase its margins to those of the other larger markets. One way to do that would be to increase fees and be open and honest about it, another would be to surrepiticiously cause the total price of items to increase by a manipulated shipping system for the buyers of the smaller market making purchases in the large markets. This will cause the sellers to pay more in market fees on items sold to the smaller market
. How might they achieve this nefarious goal, you ask? It is pretty simple, the sellers in the larger market have very little interest in the buyers in the sellers market and while they will sell their merchandise to the smaller market they really don't pay a greatdeal of attention to how the shipping portion of their sales to the smaller market is calculated.
Given that, it become easy for the hypothetical company to do things like set default calculators that automatically use the most expensive form of shipping, The seller who probably never even looks at what it costs to ship an item to the smaller market is blissfully ignorant of the huge shipping amounts being charged to buyer from the smaller market. In many cases it is possible they never know how much shipping is until an item is sold and that paperwork is handled automatically by the company. And increased profits are quietly generated
This hypothetical company might also chose, if the extra funds being generated in tis manner were insufficient, to make it more difficult for buyers in the small market to make purchases from sellers in the larger markets by imposing rules that make such transactions unpalatable such as automatic refunds and automatically charging outrageous fees for returning merchandise. to sellers.
This of course would only be after the hypothetical company had decided to effectively close the doors on the smaller market.
Would the last Canadian leaving Please turnout the lights?
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