What!? No...no that's not what I said! No one should Fix the prices! The prices shouldn't be fixed, they should be organic and open to influence by the market. You can't have tech companies getting together and saying , "Hey, let's all set our prices at $X and forget this competition stuff, let's just split the market between ourselves." In those situations the consumer loses totally and all semblance of competitive pricing and all the benefits from competition in a capitalist economy are lost.
And if a company unilaterally decides to set its price at something ridiculous, then yes Consumers should have a right and do have a right to complain. On 9 May 2013 19:20, Cameron Childress <[email protected]> wrote: > > Soooo you think the government should fix the prices? > > On May 9, 2013, at 7:09 PM, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > What? No... > > > > There are rules AGAINST price fixing. That is what protects the free > market > > economy. > > So that people cannot get together and agree to set prices for their > > products and remove the factor of competition from the market. > > > > In the Australia example I believe it was Adobe, Microsoft and another > > company that marked up their products by more than 100% in the Australian > > market. > > > > > > On 9 May 2013 18:54, Cameron Childress <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> > >> On May 9, 2013, at 5:00 PM, Vivec wrote: > >> > >>> Price Fixing rules exist to protect consumers and to ensure a well > >>> regulated free market economy. > >> > >> The terms 'price fixing' and 'free market' mean pretty much the exact > >> opposite things. > >> > >> I really do think this is all about you and I using the same vocabulary > to > >> mean totally different things because the first and last parts of your > >> statement above are completely contradictory. > >> > >> -Cameron > >> > >> ... > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:363481 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
