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Originally Posted by Robotech_Master
I really don't think that we need publishers having the authority to set retail prices. It's anti-competitive. It means the end of loss leaders that make such good bargains for consumers, where the store decides to give away money on one item in the hope of making it back on others.
Publishers shouldn't get to decide anything but whether they sell to retailers, when they sell to retailers, and for how much they sell to retailers. What retailers do with it afterward should be out of their hands.
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Why could a store not eat some of their profit to sell something cheaper under this model? And technically amazon would stop being a retailer if I understand the concepts correctly.
Anyway in some markets using these sale-tactics (selling at a loss to attract customers) actually are illegal.