eBay and FTC push Congress over retail price-fixing (Ars Technica)

We’ve all run into it before—you want to buy a certain widget, only to find that every single retailer seems to carry it for a certain price, with little variation among them. It’s a result of vertical price-fixing, where manufacturers set minimum prices for retailers to sell their products. So much for a good deal, right? eBay and other retailers are now fighting to get Congress to overturn a …

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