{"id":995144,"date":"2026-02-27T07:49:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T02:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=995144"},"modified":"2026-02-27T08:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T02:30:21","slug":"amazon-refused-permission-to-appeal-go-ahead-for-uk-lawsuits-from-retailers-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/27\/amazon-refused-permission-to-appeal-go-ahead-for-uk-lawsuits-from-retailers-consumers\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon refused permission to appeal go-ahead for UK lawsuits from retailers, consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon on Thursday lost its latest bid to try to throw out two mass lawsuits from retailers and consumers worth up to 4 billion pounds ($5.41 billion) for allegedly abusing its dominant position. <\/p>\n<p>Andreas Stephan, a \u200ccompetition law \u2060academic, \u2060brought one of the cases on behalf of over \u200b200,000 third-party retailers, worth up to 2.7 billion pounds. <\/p>\n<p>His lawyers \u200ballege that Amazon manipulates the &#8220;Buy Box&#8221; feature on its website to its own advantage and favours \u200bproducts that use Amazon&#8217;s own \u2060logistics centres \u200cand delivery network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon on Thursday lost its latest bid to try to throw out two mass lawsuits from retailers and consumers worth up to 4 billion pounds ($5.41 billion) for allegedly abusing its dominant position. Andreas Stephan, a \u200ccompetition law \u2060academic, \u2060brought one of the cases on behalf of over \u200b200,000 third-party retailers, worth up to 2.7 billion pounds. His lawyers \u200ballege that Amazon manipulates the &#8220;Buy Box&#8221; feature on its website to its own advantage and favours \u200bproducts that use Amazon&#8217;s own \u2060logistics centres \u200cand delivery network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}