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Posted by tony cooper on 06/17/07 17:45
On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:29:06 -0400, "Tina Peters" <tina@axishost.com>
wrote:
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>"Scott Bryce" <sbryce@scottbryce.com> wrote in message
>news:2OednRz6GaCO1ujbnZ2dnUVZ_hzinZ2d@comcast.com...
>> Mark Goodge wrote:
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>> > That depends where you are. It may still be legal in the US, but
>> > setting a minimum retail price has been illegal in most of Europe for
>> > quite some time.
>>
>> Interesting. So, if I am a small business owner, and my products are
>> only available through me, I can sell at any price I want to. How would
>> that be different than price fixing? After all, I would be determining
>> the price, and nobody could buy at a lower price.
>
>
>PRICE FIXING: Actions, generally by a several large corporations that
>dominate in a single market, to escape market discipline by setting prices
>for goods or services at an agreed-on level.
>
>In order for it to be price fixing, on your 'unique' product, there would
>have to be no possible way of anyone competing for the market you sell your
>product to. That is, I couldn't come along and sell a similar item that
>does the same function and sell it for less. I would bet money that very
>few products would fall under that category.
>
Of course there are many products that fall under this category:
brand names. Target and K-Mart can't agree to sell Sunbeam toasters,
for example, at the same price. They can sell toasters at the same
price and sell Sunbeam toasters at the same price, but they can't
*agree* to sell Sunbeam toasters at the same price. There's nothing
illegal about Target seeing K-Mart's ad and setting their price at the
same amount. That's not conspiring.
>--Tina
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Tony Cooper
Orlando, FL
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