Garmin Price Fixing Post from other newsgroup

Price fixing is illegal, but only at the level where retailers conspire to
fix prices. The courts have repeatedly held that manufacturers can enforce
mandatory pricing levels on their customers (the retailers). Thus Garmin is
perfectly free to set a minimum retail price for its products and even
refuse to do business with retailers that violate the policy.

You already see it in almost every sector of the economy, but you don't
notice it because it really only works for scarce, high demand items like
the Garmin 296.

C J Campbell wrote:

Thus Garmin is perfectly free to set a minimum retail price
for its products and even refuse to do business with
retailers that violate the policy.

And at Oskosh of all places can you blame them.

Imagine the chaos, confusion and ill will if Garmin had even ten
distributors, sales reps, independent agents, etc., each desperate
to make sales for their own boss, store, area, etc. each setting their
own price and listening to people like you tell them that another sales
rep quoted a lower price.

Can you imagine the howling if one of you bought a particular model for
say seven hundred bucks and while gloating about your great deal
someone else walked up to you with the identical product and laughed
at you because they only paid six hundred and twenty five.

You would be screaming at Garmin for being inconsistant in their
pricing, etc., etc., blah, blah, blah, yada, yada, yada.....
and you all know it.

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C J Campbell wrote:

Thus Garmin is perfectly free to set a minimum retail price
for its products and even refuse to do business with
retailers that violate the policy.

And at Oskosh of all places can you blame them.

Imagine the chaos, confusion and ill will if Garmin had even ten
distributors, sales reps, independent agents, etc., each desperate
to make sales for their own boss, store, area, etc. each setting their
own price and listening to people like you tell them that another sales
rep quoted a lower price.

Can you imagine the howling if one of you bought a particular model for
say seven hundred bucks and while gloating about your great deal
someone else walked up to you with the identical product and laughed
at you because they only paid six hundred and twenty five.

You would be screaming at Garmin for being inconsistant in their
pricing, etc., etc., blah, blah, blah, yada, yada, yada.....
and you all know it.

You seem to know a great deal about "people like me." Or maybe not -- did
you detect some tone of complaint in my post? It was unintended, to be sure.
People who know me well would realize that I oppose any laws against price
fixing. I think you should be able to do business with whomever you like
whenever you like, and no government has the right to tell you what to
charge, who to sell to, or anything else. Government's role should be
strictly limited to preventing you from defrauding people.

If I buy something at a price and find it cheaper elsewhere, that is just
too bad. It was worth the higher price to me when I bought it, therefore it
continues to be worth that much to me. I don't go back to retailers and
complain they charged too much, unless the retailer has expressly given me a
guarantee that his is the lowest price. I stick with my agreements and I
expect others to honor theirs.

C J Campbell wrote:

did you detect some tone of complaint in my post?

Oh no..... I wasn't trying to put you personally on the spot.

In a nutshell I was just trying to say that when various people get
together at the same venue selling the same identical product as
representatives of a national company like Garmin, that from the
standpoint of the manufacturer it would make sense to make sure that
during that particular event that all sales reps were playing on the
same field.