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Bewelge • today at 11:28 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

B2B: Look at chefkoch.de They do use the REWE API, and I'm guessing not without their knowledge

B2C: Is it really surprising that a busines has no interest in providing more price transparency to their customers?

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rmoriz • today at 11:37 AM

When Amazon launches an API everyone cries. Same story over and over. Even better example: TakeAway-Group. The perfect MITM.

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traceroute66 • today at 12:24 PM

> B2C: Is it really surprising that a busines has no interest in providing more price transparency to their customers?

Might I suggest you remove your tin-foil hat and consider that:

   - 99% of REWE customers almost certainly have no clue what an API is
   - 99% of the remaining 1% know what an API is, but their day-job involves messing with APIs, so they don't want to spend their weekend-time messing with the REWE API, they just want to do their shopping at REWE.
   - The final 0.1% are those who come on HN and pretend its all some sort of big conspiracy to minimise transparency by $evil_corp. :)
If you think about it, imagine if REWE officially exposed an API B2C. This would mean they are obligated to provide support.

Do you really want the price of your shopping to increase because REWE now needs to find money to pay for a helpdesk for the millions of B2C API users ?

Businesses and services differentiating between B2C and B2B is nothing new, that is why the two different terminologies exist !

What next, you don't want to fill up your car at the petrol station (B2C) but you want to be permitted to buy a barrel crude oil direct from the drill and refine it yourself (B2B) ?

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