The company increased prices to match third-party sellers’ prices and unreasonably limited competition to maximize and increase its profits, according to a lawsuit filed simultaneously with a consent decree by the attorney general’s office in King County Superior Court.
Most products from third-party sellers had prices that were “fixed, raised, maintained, or stabilized at artificially high levels through price increases, price floors, and/or discount prevention,” according to the lawsuit. This forced consumers to pay more for products than they would have in a competitive market, the lawsuit says.
