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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
Quite frankly, I really didn't care how this case turned out. I'm quite cynical about our legal system and outcomes are frequently based on who's running the show versus the actual merits of a case.
That said; when a company charges too much for a product, I quit buying that product and seek a less expensive alternative. I don't like agency pricing and refuse to buy those books. I don't care if agency pricing gets re-instated or not; it won't affect me. There's always something else to read.
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I agree for the most part, although perhaps monkeys over think these things and are not as simple as they would have us believe. Most people wouldn't know what agency pricing was if it came up and bit them.
Most of my life, I just paid the cover price of the book printed on the spine. Of course I could have trundled around to every bookstore in town in hopes of saving a buck or two, but I seemed to have better things to do.
If there was a big sale I would buy books and that was good, but mostly I just bought the book I wanted when I wanted it or went to the library.
Back before ebooks, prices were pretty standard. At one time all of the anthologies by different publishers were pretty much the same (usually exactly the same) There were variations of course, but more often book prices by genre and size were pretty standard. Were they all colluding? Perhaps but more likely competing.
Definitely collusion was going on and I think this was both stupid and wrong. But agency (consistent) pricing is often a matter of competition and not always exorbitant. And someone will soon drop the price barrier lower and chances are all prices will be lower
Most of the grocery stores I shop at all charge the same prices for the same type of product, and electronics stores, drugstores etc. but sales occur and bargains can be found. I'm pretty thrifty, but if I want something I will buy it even if it is the same price in every store.
Helen