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Originally Posted by rhadin
As for your wish to not move from the wholesale model, in a free market, moving from one model to another is standard operating procedure. Because you like Amazon's prices doesn't mean that Amazon's prices are the correct prices. Amazon's price setting is no different than the BPH's price setting -- each is looking out for itself. Other than that you think pricing is better for you under the wholesale model, you provide no justification for that model.
Interestingly, as pointed out earlier, the Wall street Journal notes that Amazon wanted to go to agency pricing long before the issue arose and only backed off from that model when Apple intruded. Thus even your idol seems to think agency pricing is better -- for it.
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Please throw that red herring back where you got it from, they have cheated you.
No one here has said that Agency should be illegal.
Many people have stated that price-fixing in collusion
is illegal (no "should" about it), and that that is what Apple and the BWMs did.
Many people have also stated that they prefer the wholesale pricing model to the Agency model, due to personal preference in regards to prices. That should not be taken to be a legal stance regarding Agency's validity. Thus, "pricing is better for you under the wholesale model" is the only justification needed for "I would
like it if Amazon stuck with a wholesale model".