Consumers sue Amazon for not refunding Trump tariff costs

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• cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They will probably lose, and they should.

  The problem with the class-action lawsuit is, only those who led the class will be “made whole”, as it were; the rest will get table scraps. That’s not justice, except for the lawyers, who are the real winners.

  Legally speaking, Amazon paid the tariffs to import those goods and sold them for cost plus a fee they determined on their own. They don’t owe the customer shit.

  The best thing the government could have done is cut every American a check for their share of the tariffs. The best thing Amazon (and others like them) can do is, use the money to improve their infrastructure and/or to lower the prices of other products. Paying 2-3 people what they’re rightly owed (if anything), lawyers millions, and hundreds of thousands of others a buck or two isn’t right.

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  • OzzyIsAussie@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    But neither the government nor Amazon will do that because they are too money-hungry and short sighted, that’s shareholder profit they could be making.

    Better a few thousand people get compensated and some lawyers get paid for their time rather than for the money to go into Bezos’ back pocket, no?

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