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In a sealed bid, second price auction, Amazon could just bid approximately infinity every time, and only pay the second highest bid.

(Presumably, they wouldn't actually bid infinity, just in case someone else bids infinity-1 as a joke. But they could afford to bid what the Amazon brand is actually worth to them.)



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