Mikes Cigars loses Oliva.

Originally Posted by SeanGAR

Prices are fixed in communist and socialist systems. They are not in a free market. Your comment about who owns the store and what employees are paid is irrelevant.

I'm still waiting for a copy of Mike's contract with Olivia.

Setting a minimum price for a retailer to sell your goods is not price fixing. Price fixing is when the retailers get together and artificially raise prices on agreement. Msrp is standard in a free market. As is decreasing supply to increase demand. So is flooding the market to devalue something. All of it is free market tactics. You may not agree with them but it doesn't make them communist. You made an emotional comment that was incorrect. No harm or shame in it.

[SeanGAR]

Originally Posted by Legend

Setting a minimum price for a retailer to sell your goods is not price fixing. Price fixing is when the retailers get together and artificially raise prices on agreement. Msrp is standard in a free market. As is decreasing supply to increase demand. So is flooding the market to devalue something. All of it is free market tactics. You may not agree with them but it doesn't make them communist. You made an emotional comment that was incorrect. No harm or shame in it.

If you set or fix a price of something, you are fixing the price. If that disagrees with specific accepted jargon ... well, gee. I can understand why Olivia is interested in maintaining cigar prices in the market, but Mike's prices on most things are 10% below MSRP. Big whoop. I get more than that here at my local. But I'm not a competitor and am not going to squeal to Olivia. I haven't purchased anything from Mike's in years, I really don't care.

Originally Posted by SeanGAR

If you set or fix a price of something, you are fixing the price. If that disagrees with specific accepted jargon ... well, gee. I can understand why Olivia is interested in maintaining cigar prices in the market, but Mike's prices on most things are 10% below MSRP. Big whoop. I get more than that here at my local. But I'm not a competitor and am not going to squeal to Olivia. I haven't purchased anything from Mike's in years, I really don't care.

Your jargon with regards to price fixing was not the issue. You were claiming communist practices. I and a few others here simply disagreed and and clarified that it was in fact free market that was happening. This is how free market works. You don't like it fine. You don't have to. We simply wanted to clarify that it was not communism.