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Amazon sellers say cheaper prices elsewhere can cost them visibility

Business Insider examines the Buy Box's leverage, a merchant's pricing dilemma and Amazon's explanation for withholding featured offers.

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Business Insider Story of November 10, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 70,466 views a day, 10 times a normal first day on this channel (6,758).

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Business Insider starts with a bedding product carrying virtually the same price at Amazon, Walmart and Target. Bed Scrunchie used to cost less away from Amazon. Cofounder Jack Nekhala says messages from the platform helped change that.

"Amazon sent us this very unfriendly email, basically that if we don't increase our price elsewhere, that this product will remain invisible..." he says in the report.

The mechanism is Amazon's Buy Box, the prominent purchasing option that Business Insider says accounts for the vast majority of purchases on the platform. Losing that position can leave a seller's product available but much harder to sell. The report also describes a toy manufacturer receiving dozens of warnings about offers not being featured within a month.

Amazon's response is included: the company says it does not feature higher-priced offers because it wants to preserve customer trust. That leaves an obvious question: why not lower the Amazon price instead? Nekhala's answer is that Amazon's higher fees make matching the cheaper price elsewhere unfeasible.

The Short had drawn roughly 56,000 views in fifteen hours, an unusually fast start for Business Insider's Shorts. Its comments were already several times busier than a usual full first day, with viewers discussing platform fees and whether they continue shopping on Amazon.

The report's central distinction is between keeping a product listed and keeping it in the place where shoppers actually buy.

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