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Originally Posted by pro4nut
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.
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try reading this
http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg...cId=1074014670
if companies come together and fix a price, its illegal, im not talking distributers.
my example is if dms. mk racing microtech all had a get together and said right lets charge £250 for it, the above link applies