Comments on: Supreme Court: Price fixing makes for a better nation

by: William K. Wolfrum

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 00:31:53 +0000

I honestly can’t see how this won’t end up destroying tons and tons of small businesses. The select few have to be thrilled tho. And Wonder Cow brings up a hell of a point: what about eBay?

This line from the story tells it all: “Until today, the nation has had an unusually competitive retail market, ”

And now, it doesn’t.

–WKW

by: Miranda

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 23:43:21 +0000

Let’s see, Congress wants to investigate price gouging at the gas pumps and then the Supreme Court comes out with this ‘hey price fixing’s great’ endorsement. Why do I think Cheney might have had a hand in this?

by: wonder cow

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 23:39:49 +0000

“manufacturers should be free to control how their products will be marketed and sold,”

Sure. UP TO THE POINT THEY SELL THEM. Once retailers purchase them, how does the SC figure the manufactures retain “rights” over property that no longer belongs to them?

There is absolutely zero basis in the constitution for this. This is about as anti-capitalism as you can get. If I purchase something, it belongs to me. If I wish to sell it for a nickel, it’s no ones business. This goes to prove so called “conservative” judges don’t give a piss about the constitution. There is a term they are found of using…JUDICIAL ACTIVISM.

This pretty much wipes out eBay and yard sales.

by: Kristen

Thu, 28 Jun 2007 23:07:49 +0000

Oh that’s just brilliant. What about competition between the retailers themselves? Where people used to go to Store A to get one specific item at a reduced rate and possibly shop more while there, now they’ll just go to Store B where they were going to get some other items anyway. I wonder if Store B’s lobby had anything to do with this…