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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
That is exactly the point I was trying to make when I responded to hamster's comment about price fixing. I.e., he objected to my use of the term "illegal price fixing," and I explained that if it wasn't illegal, it was just setting prices.
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Wrong again Honey!
Legal v. illegal is a matter of law, and I'll assume about proving something in court. The big five worked together to use their shared monopoly to force Amazon to conform to a pricing system that neither they nor the consumer wanted. I'm fairly certain that the average man-in-the-street would view that as "price fixing", not "price setting". I do, but I've got to assume that it's somehow not illegal, since nobody's been charged with anything.
I chose my words very carefully in my previous posts, Andrew. If you want to re-write my posts and argue with yourself then more power to you. But keep me out of it.