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Originally Posted by BenG
A lot of people are using the term "price-fixing" in regards to Amazon, but I thought that it referred to a group of retailers or manufacturers agreeing not to sell a product below a certain price.
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The term can have other meanings. For example, in the UK, a manufacturer is not allowed to dictate what price a retailer charges for its products. It can set a "recommended" retail price, but any retailer is free to discount that price if they wish to do so. That would be an example of "price fixing" by the manufacturer, and may be the context that people have in mind here.