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> only the “tells sellers what they should charge” part

that, and when they inform the seller they use emotionally loaded language implying "if they are not the market leader, they are leaving money on the table, like a fool." Yes, the service consumer has to be a little manipulable for such mechanisms to work, but they do, nearly all the time.



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