rockportrocket wrote:
Price discrimination occurs when a business charges a different price to different groups of consumers for the same good or service, for reasons not associated with costs.
If for instance Ford has their oil change special on for 20 bucks, and they then give a 10% discount if you bought you car there, they would be guilty. If you can prove you paid 10% more for the exact same service , you have a case. I don't care what wpo says.
If for instance Ford has their oil change special on for 20 bucks, and they then give a 10% discount
if you bought you car there, they would be guilty. I don't think so. That dealers customers are one set of customer group. His non customers are in a different group.
If you are referring to the
Robinson-Patman act, this also regards sales to distributors that cross state lines. And in the interest to create a monopoly.
Besides that it's going to take a lot more than that to initiate an anti-trust lawsuit. Even if you somehow do prevail, what do you expect the punitive reward to be for all the plaintiff's. Then tell me if it was worth it.
Bottom line...it's a NON-issue. Whether right or wrong. You are better off forgetting about it and getting on with your life. If you don't like a company's policy...go somewhere else. It is a public policy. They are not hiding it. They are publicly announcing their preferred customer group. They are not guilty.
