Discounts on Tamiya products - POOF! GONE!

[SfanGoch]

26 minutes ago, Mr. Metallic said:

This is not the same as the illegal activity of rival companies colluding together to set prices to keep them artificially high(price fixing). This is usually done behind closed doors and in secret and is designed to keep profits higher at the detriment of the customer. This is also different from monopoly type laws where a company buys up the competition and becomes the "only" provider for a product (or controls too much of the market). Also illegal in the US. That is not what Tamiya is doing here in either case, and is therefor not illegal in the US.

Understanding the precise legal definitions of terms like "collusion", "monopoly" and "price fixing"  before carelessly tossing them into a conversation seems to be a rarity lately. A good example of a monopoly broken up for violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act is Standard Oil. Standard was found guilty of not only monopolizing the petroleum industry, it was guilty of both horizontal and vertical price fixing. As you pointed out, Tamiya is not guilty of any of these practices.  What it boils down to is, "Nothing personal.just business."

22 minutes ago, Quick GMC said:

Yet, people are stubborn and will refuse to educate themselves and continue to pretend-boycott. 

That involves actually performing research which many are loathe to do.

[Pete J.]

It shouldn't surprise you Joe.  Our society is full of "buzz words" that people throw about indiscriminately without the slightest clue about the actually legal context.  "Discrimination" and "free speech" are  among the most common today.   For the general membership of this forum, no, I'm not going to get into it, nor am I trying to start a political discussion of those words.  I use them only to illustrate my point about misunderstanding of the true legal use of words and will not respond to any comments in that regard.  If you don't understand, then please feel free to do some research, but I am not going to address any comments out of the context of the prior discussion of collusion or price fixing as mentioned.  That would be a violation of board rules.  Please respect the rules.