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protip; you might be a dumbass
look around you. raising prices is what corporations do
its how the rich get richer.
squeezing profits from any turnip they come across, cutting wages, investing in slave labor/sweatshops, hiring illegal workers, etc...
are you surprised to see price fixing among their crimes?
is that worse than hiring illegal workers for substandard pay in dangerous conditions?
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Sin_of_Onin  Posts: 1,307
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I don't how that quote demonstrates that apple was involved in price fixing or collusion. It was a comparison of two models, one where amazon was determining the price and one where apple was simply demanding a cut and the book publisher set the price.
/boggle
Price collusion is a big deal because it basically turns a small number of large companies into a pseudo monopoly with regard to their capacity to set prices.
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Hmm, no response from Fisted.
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Testerion  Posts: 549
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Big corporations have been doing behind the scenes agreements on price ranges on consumer products since the creation of light bulp.
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reesescups Title: //Captain America
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Today Fist hates the free market, capitalism and supports more regulations...
Is it opposite day or something?
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Yukishiro1 Posts: 3,243
Registered: 2002-9-20 23:52:57
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Just the 180 degree world!
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Ironically, Amazon was accused of doing almost exactly the same thing, when eBooks first came to the fore. Amazon artificially set the price of every eBook at $9.99 and tried to force the publishers to comply. The publishers wanted the right to set the market price.
So whom do you support, Fist? The company trying to dictate the price of a product to the producer (Amazon) or the company trying to collude in price fixing (Apple)?
The real problem is that both of them have way, way too much market share and can actually engage in such practices meaningfully. Amazon has something like 20% of the book seller market - that a HUGE portion for one company. I'm sure we all know what kinds of market share Apple has.
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Kjarhall Title: The Pungent One
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And what does this have to do with liberals that isn't made up in Fisteds delusions?
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Eager_Igraine posted:
I read that article earlier. I'm not a fan of price fixing at all and yet I can't help but wonder why Fisted is angry about the free market and private enterprise at work. The publishers, who, you know, publish the books or e-books, wanted a larger part of the profits made from sales to the retailer (the retailer in question was trying to corner the market on their own product by selling e-books for peanuts, thus effecting the publisher bottom line as well), so the publisher moved to a different format. For selling their product. The retailer doesn't have to sell that product, right?
Why so mad, Fisted?
Because that is not free market. Only a liberal with no idea what a free market is would think otherwise.
Yes, I distain liberals. They never give me a reason to do otherwise. Look at this thread. On a subject we should all be in total agreement on they turned into a partisan attack. Useless trash the lot of them.
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Yukishiro1 Posts: 3,243
Registered: 2002-9-20 23:52:57
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how is it not?
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