• nicetriangle@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    Yeah they jacked up prices and realized that while they may be losing customers, they’re still making more money. They’d need to take a tangible financial hit to stop this shit.

    This same basic math is going right now at every other company that decided to opportunistically price gouge us.

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      11 months ago

      It’s prima facie evidence of price fixing. Not that I expect it to ever be prosecuted, or even seriously investigated.

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        11 months ago

        I think maybe they make an example of a few companies but that the fines are considerably less than the windfall of cash the price gouging got them and the rest of the offenders out there (many of which I bet are even worse) will get off scot-free

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        11 months ago

        Price fixing is when multiple companies collude to raise the price, companies charging more on their own is not price fixing.