Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/10/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:42 08/10/96 -0500, you wrote: >It's been my experience that high end products in a variety of areas are >sold at retail price per agreement with the manufactor. Sales or other >special deals must be authorized or instigated by the manufactor. This is >true of much of high end audio, although it seems to be less so in the past >few years. I believe the idea is that the dealer promises to provide a >certain level of service and does not have to worry about a mail order or >warehouse kind of places undercutting him. It's a way of ensuring that the >kind of shops that provide the level of service that Leica prefers are able >to stay in business. > >Michael Bell >MBell@mail.utexas.edu > I hope that you are not correct. If you are, it clearly violates Federal Fair Trade Law which came in in the early 70s specifically to stop such action which was prevalent especially in the audio industry. Brian Levy, J.D. Toronto, Ont. dlevy@worldy.com