Amazon’s deal to sell new Apple devices under scrutiny by US FTC

Amazon announced last November that it would sell the most-recent iPhone, iPad, Mac computer, Apple Watch and Apple TV models on its website, along with branded accessories and headphones from Apple’s Beats subsidiary. — Bloomberg

The US Federal Trade Commission is scrutinising a deal Amazon.com Inc made with Apple Inc to sell iPhones directly on its e-commerce site, signalling the agency has increased oversight of the tech giant.

John Bumstead, who sells refurbished Apple products, said in a Facebook post last month that about seven lawyers and an economist from the FTC interviewed him about the deal. He made the posting in a group of Apple resellers that complained about being forced to stop selling their refurbished products on Amazon.