Klarinet Archive - Posting 000002.txt from 2006/08

From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Buffet Pricefixing??
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 09:17:14 -0400

Mark, what, short of "knee-capping" did the Supreme Court consider coercion?

Karl

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Charette [mailto:charette@-----.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 8:28 AM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Buffet Pricefixing??
>
> Bill Hausmann wrote:
> >
> > Many manufacturers have Minimum ADVERTISED Prices, which
> are designed
> > mostly to protect local stores from mail order/internet
> outlets. But
> > setting minimum SELLING prices constitutes price fixing in my book.
>
> Not according to the Supreme Court in the US (there have been
> a number of cases brought before it on this subject). Setting
> a minimum price and dropping dealers that sell below that
> price is currently perfectly legal. Coercing dealers to not
> sell below that price (a policy of dropping the dealers is
> different than coercing them, at least legally) is not legal.
>
> A number of co-ops have brought suit against distributors for
> this very reason. The suits have not been fruitful unless
> coercion has been demonstrated.
>
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