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Old 3rd June 2009   #909
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Originally Posted by ark View Post
There is a name for this situation: "Illegal price-fixing."
There is a name for this situation: "Spouting off catch phrases that you overheard somewhere, but don't actually understand".

"Illegal price fixing" would be if competing retailers - say, Guitar Center and Sweetwater - had secret under-the-table agreements with each other to sell products for the same price, in order to guarantee a particular mutually-beneficial profit margin amongst themselves.
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