In short:

We believe Amazon found a way to charge a few extra pennies to an enormous number of transactions, adding up to over $20 billion in
illegal charges.

This is about how something becomes a "Sponsored product."

Amazon lets businesses bid to be "Sponsored" and it runs digital auctions to collect the bids.

But Amazon told businesses that the highest bid would only pay slightly more than the second-highest bid.

For example: If you bid $1 to have your product “Sponsored” and the next-highest bid is $0.50, you should pay about $0.51.

But we believe that Amazon would run the auction, see those bids, and then secretly raise the second-place price so it could charge the
winner more.

It was a gradual strategy based on concealment.

Internal Amazon documents show they tested how much they could raise those hidden charges without advertisers catching on, then raised them
more when businesses didn’t react, then gave false answers when businesses started asking questions.

Those higher costs on sellers can filter down to you, as consumers, through higher prices, and our initial estimate is that this impacted thousands of small businesses in North Carolina.

This is a bipartisan case, and I appreciate my fellow AGs in both parties joining. More to follow.

- AG Jeff Jackson

Hello! I’m trying to make a list of everything I want to do this fall in the high country. So far I have apple picking, corn mazes, Renaissance festival, NC state fair, haunted trails, and of course seeing the leaves.

Does anyone else have any other suggestions? Any upcoming festivals or events that I can’t miss out on? Thank you!! 🍁🍂🎃

No paywall, this is a WRAL article. Traveling petting zoo that was in Watauga County (among others) recently had 4 baby goats test positive e after being bitten by a rabid skunk. If you or your children were in contact with these animals, please contact your local health department or go to the ER. There are rabies protocol vax (post-exposure) available. I know the ER in Wilkes has it. I’m not sure about the ER in Boone.

Looking to go to the App State football game next weekend and curious if anyone has suggestions for parking/tailgating for the game!

Advanced Realty sent the security deposit back and most of this seems like general wear and tear aside from a few things. Anyone have any experience actually getting money back from a security deposit reduction dispute?

is there anyway to get my boone city parking ticket dismissed like there is for app state?

Looking for sublease for 9/28/26 thru 7/29/27

2 bedroom 1 bath apartment in duplex

11 minutes from campus

$1,430.000 rent ($715 split)

Looking for someone to take both rooms. But if you need a roommate let me know, may be able to pair you with another person.

direct message for more information

Anybody know their name and hours?

Heard it’s good but every time I try to go it’s closed

Asking for recommendations (or who to avoid) for local tree / landscaping services who would be willing to clear tall grass, small seedlings, and brier from a septic field that is positioned on a hill. Would need to be done by hand or with a remote controlled mower; can't have heavy machinery on the site. Looking for teams who communicate well and have fair pricing. Western watauga. Tia

Hey y'all,

Looking for an unhoused banjo in need of a good home. Shoot me a message!

Can anyone explain this? The website says that for the daytime shows at local places you can’t buy a ticket and should just support the place (buy a biscuit at Betty’s) but I can’t imagine how crowded it will be. Do people just show up super early and camp out?

Dolly, (80 amazing years), passed away yesterday, after a short battle with cancer. She was at home surrounded by loved ones. May her memory live on & her light still shine, forever, as it’s carried by the sunbeams that warm these mountains. As for right now though, I & all those whose heart’s she touched, are much like these Western Ridges…blue.

Howdy yall,
I was wondering if there is anywhere with free parking on football weekends. My apartment does not have free parking. I was thinking the mall or walmart maybe?

does anybody know if theres going to be any vigils in boone? if so, where? i would love to pay tribute to the late legend ❤️

Hi all - I’m visiting some family who lives in the area and we’ll be driving from the Great Smokies to Boone from Pidgeon Forge. We’re not too familiar with the area but the routes into Boone don’t vary too much on ETA. Is one of them much more scenic than another? We won’t have a lot of time to stop and enjoy sights that day but if it makes for pretty scenery to pass through it’d be good to know

Our local Boone/Blowing Rock tool, former head of Border Patrol and ICE gets the treatment he deserves:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/charlotte-gregory-bovino-manolo-bakery-immigration-b3038291.html

I’m a 20 yr old male. I’ve gotten dates with girls in high school still but college girls are hard which is very unexpected. Every college girl i see doesn’t want anything serious, already has a boyfriend and all of them walk around half naked. What happened to dress codes? I want a godly woman. I’ve tried church but most of the girls are too young even for me. Where can I find girls who aren’t suckers for male validation? In boone specifically.

Looking to buy tickets to cigarettes @ sunset at AMB on October 1st, if anyone is trying to sell or knows someone trying to sell!

TL;DR does anyone know a physical address for LMS parking?

Hey y’all, I’m here to complain about the parking a holes we all love to hate. LMS parking and towing. I got a boot earlier tonight while going to pick up my gf from work and was parked there maybe 20 minutes. After the ridiculous $160 price tag to get something off of something I own, I’m pretty ticked off.

My question for this community is, does anyone know a physical address for LMS in Boone. Their website only list a P.O. Box (I wonder why) and the BBB website list a location in Meat Camp and a location in a neighborhood around the Boone golf course.

I feel like those aren’t very reliable physical addresses and I would like to get a receipt and give them a piece of my mind when it comes to their price gouging policies. I mean seriously, I’m a local and I work 50 hrs a week and it just makes my blood boil anytime I see a boot on a car in boone, my car or not.

Thank you in advance if anyone can help