bucky1965 said:
Mummelmann said:
bucky1965 said:
Mummelmann said:
NobleTeam360 said:
Glad that isn't a rule in the United States. |
May I ask why? How does it benefit you as a consumer that the biggest companies are left alone to rampage through massive, cynical advertising due to a lack of rules of conduct and competition premises? Competiton is a good thing for consumers and the market in general.
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Because as a consumer it gives you choices.
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Re-read the bolded and then read your response again. Huge conglomerates dominating a market yields a very specific and observable lack of choice for the consumer, this is more or less markets and trade 101.
The provider(s) of goods and/or services decide(s) your choices, fewer acting competitors in any given market = less choice for the consumer. You're going to have to expand on your reasoning here because I really can't follow your logic here at all.
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I should have been more specific. I was referring to ms offering rebates to ps3 owners. Nothing wrong with it. No different than trading your cell phone in for a different make or model. Competitor trade ins aren't something new.It gives you more choices as a consumer.
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In a way, perhaps. My main issue was with the notion that large companies roaming uncontested in a potentially hostile market environment was somehow good for consumers though. I have nothing against free markets, too many restrictions also kill opportunity and variety, but I don't believe that free market should equal hostile market. And with no laws regulating conduct in market presentation, or more specifically; the negative presentation of the competition in your own advertisement, a free market does have a great chance of becoming hostile and thus also consumer hostile in the long term.
