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Originally Posted by ApK
All colluding to set the prices was the bad part!
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Yes, let us agree on that.
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Originally Posted by ApK
It had NOTHING to do with agency pricing, whether individually or as a group, at the same time or staggered over weeks. None of that is any more relevant to what was illegal than is the fact they used email or that they did it on a Tuesday.
It would have been the same if they did it though wholesale pricing or direct pricing. I don't understand why you are arguing about this?
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Then I would like to politely ask what you think is the illegal part in the collusion. And especially your take on how they legally could have done it through wholesale pricing, for example. And not just how they all could have done it together, but even how one single publisher independent of the others could have enforced a minimum price under wholesale.
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ETA: I propose a compromise, so we can get past this silliness: You stop saying agency pricing is illegal, and I'll stop arguing with you about it.
 
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Sure, not a problem. Agency pricing is not illegal. Collusion to price fix is illegal.