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Post #288,031
by Another Scott
6/28/07 5:10:35 PM
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New Riddle me this.
Prices on new Apple computers and iPods seem to vary at most about $5. Usually you can know what the retail price will be before you walk in the store. How can this be the case if most retail price fixing has been illegal?

:-(

I agree that the argument by the majority in this decision that this will lead to more competition in pricing seems ludicrous on its face. But the existing law doesn't seem to have been enforced in the [link|http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20061222/122642.shtml|consumer electronics space], in Apple's case anyway.

Cheers,
Scott.
Post #288,034
by inthane-chan
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6/28/07 5:32:41 PM
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New Co-sponsored advertising.
"Big ticket" items often have matching advertising dollars coming along with them from the manufacturer, that sets a MSRP value. Generally, there's also not a lot of profit on those items for the retailer - maybe $5 or $10 - which the retailer hopes to make up by the sale of overpriced accessories for the device.
Odoru aho ni miru aho!
Onaji aho nara odoranya son son!
     Supreme Court approves price fixing. - (a6l6e6x) - (14) - June 28, 2007, 05:02:03 PM EDT
         Riddle me this. - (Another Scott) - (1) - June 28, 2007, 05:10:35 PM EDT
             Co-sponsored advertising. - (inthane-chan) - June 28, 2007, 05:32:41 PM EDT
         No it isn't. - (bepatient) - (10) - June 28, 2007, 08:31:19 PM EDT
             Well there is this problem for a retailer... - (a6l6e6x) - (1) - June 28, 2007, 11:38:25 PM EDT
                 For that there are always the vendor hated . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - June 29, 2007, 12:18:52 AM EDT
             Shock news: BeeP with big biz against consumers, film at 11. - (CRConrad) - (7) - June 29, 2007, 03:05:15 AM EDT
                 This is a business to business decision - (bepatient) - (6) - June 29, 2007, 04:54:59 AM EDT
                     It's being reported as lifting a ban on retail price fixing. - (Another Scott) - (1) - June 29, 2007, 07:53:52 AM EDT
                         What it is - (bepatient) - June 29, 2007, 10:50:21 AM EDT
                     It is sure to effect consumer prices - (JayMehaffey) - (3) - June 29, 2007, 09:25:42 AM EDT
                         Re: It is sure to effect consumer prices - (bepatient) - (2) - June 29, 2007, 10:52:17 AM EDT
                             Re: It is sure to effect consumer prices - (JayMehaffey) - (1) - June 29, 2007, 11:33:37 AM EDT
                                 I think you overestimate which side has the leverage -NT - (bepatient) - June 29, 2007, 12:19:10 PM EDT
         kinda like the IBM authorised dealership program back in the - (boxley) - June 28, 2007, 09:03:50 PM EDT

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