Apple Hit With Another Lawsuit Over Alleged Collusion With Amazon to Keep Prices High

Apple and Amazon are facing a new UK opt-out people action seeking much than £900 cardinal ($1.2 billion) implicit claims that the companies struck an unlawful woody that pushed autarkic Apple and Beats sellers disconnected Amazon and kept prices higher for consumers.


The assertion centers connected an statement from October 2018, from which constituent it is alleged that Amazon restricted third-party sellers from offering Apple products connected Amazon's marketplace, portion Apple gave Amazon amended wholesale presumption for Apple products sold straight by Amazon arsenic a retailer. The suit claims that by January 2019, astir autarkic Apple resellers had efficaciously disappeared from Amazon, reducing discounted listings and leaving consumers paying person to afloat price.

The projected people includes UK consumers who bought caller Apple products since October 2018, whether from Amazon oregon different retailers, connected the ground that the alleged behaviour affected prices much broadly. It covers Apple hardware and Beats products, positive accessories, but it excludes Apple products bought arsenic portion of mobile web contracts.

This is not the archetypal effort astatine a lawsuit implicit the aforesaid issue. A similar case was triggered successful the United States successful 2022. Collective enactment was brought guardant successful the UK successful 2023, but the tribunal did not let it to proceed. The caller filing argues the halfway contention allegations stay beardown and should beryllium heard with a antithetic projected people typical and structure.
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