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Originally Posted by HarryT
I don't know what the "rules" are, but TV manufacturers in the UK were prosecuted a few years ago for operating exactly such a price-fixing cartel, and refusing to supply retailers who discounted prices.
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In this case, it isn't a price-fixing cartel among manufacturers. That's illegal here too. It's a single manufacturer refusing to sell to merchants who don't comply with its pricing guidelines. AFAIK, that's
not illegal. (If I were a manufacturer, I'd be quite unhappy at laws that required me to sell to anyone. Some of the people who resold my products could behave in ways damaging to me, and I'd want the option to cut them off if they did.)
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Dennis