Sticking It to Amazon

Investors drove down the price of Sears’ shares 

Last month I wrote about Amazon.com‘s hasty exit from Texas when presented with a bill for $269 million in uncollected sales taxes (

Online behemoth Google is preparing to try to "steal online retail from Amazon," according to Marcus

Submitted by Michael Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,

Reuters - Sears Holdings Corp sent an open letter on Thursday to independent Web operators affiliated with online retailer Amazon.com inviting them to join its network, becoming the second major U.S. store chain to go after key partners of the Web retailer in recent weeks.

By Paulo Santos:In a Reuters piece today, we got further confirmation of something I've been saying all along: That sales taxes matter, and Amazon.com (AMZN) is going to see an effect from having to collect them.

Karl Denninger submits: Look out, fans of Amazon (AMZN). Now even California "Amazon Affilates" are getting the axe:

AP - Amazon.com has made good on its threat to cut ties with Illinois affiliates because of a new law requiring the online store to collect sales taxes.