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Originally Posted by stonetools
Other ways like what?
You do know that in many industries, manufacturers dictate prices and that the courts have explicitly allowed this?
Look up "resale price maintenance".
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We are talking 5 publishers coming together and institute a new system (that raises prices by about 50%) on the very same day. Anyway, prosecutors are working on it.
And as for your example, have you ever heard of grey imports? Yes, manufacturers can dictate prices. But separately.
Now imagine, Toyota, Ford, GM, VW, Hyundai, etc got together and decided to dictate enduser prices to their dealers starting May 1st, 2012 --- enduser prices that are, on average, just 15% higher than current actual sales prices (let us not go all out like the publishers). What would happen?
Sure, Saturn did it many years ago (they allowed absolutely no discounts). But 80% of the industry, starting the same system on the same day?