>They are trying to slowly drive all other retails into starvation by forcing them to operate at unreasonable margins (margins amazon is only able to break even at because of scale).

This is not true in the hosting arena, at least.

Amazon is like everyone else in this industry; when they came out, they came out with very compelling prices.

Well, costs fall with moores law. Amazon prices (especially bandwidth prices) have not.

There are... a lot of new entrants to the market, and they /all/ have prices that are dramatically cheaper than amazon.com. hell, most of them make me look overpriced, and it wasn't so long ago that I was the unreasonably cheap option.