So, who were you talking about when you said at the start of this thread that "Suddenly they don't have a choice to control their costs anymore, they are forced to pay a fixed yearly fee"
Suddenly the consumer cannot control the price? The government? Who are you complaining about here who you feel should be allowed to set this price? Abode set a price. Consumers have a choice. There is no force. -Cameron On May 9, 2013, at 7:34 PM, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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:363482 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
