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Originally Posted by mark christopher
if all the shops in the uk got together and said right were all charging £250 there would be one solution
they would all end up in courts as its illegal for companies to do that!
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Not quite true Mark, retailers selling similar products often have arrangements with pricing and not just to keep prices high.
Consider the price of a playstation 3, what is the cheapest you can buy it for on the high street? (not online)
There are many things that are not fully legal which still occur, although you are right price arrangements do end up in court, milk in supermarkets being an interesting one.
Also distributers and manufacturers often have an allowed variance from the RRP if someone goes to far below that price they find stock very difficult to come by. A major high street phone retailer found itself having one of the manufacturers refusing to supply it over pricing, so actually had to import 'grey' stock to cover the shortfall.