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saimcheeda on 10 April 2009
 
  
 




Forced retailer to sell at a particular price

The German government has fined Microsoft €9 million for illegally pressing a retailer to sell its Office productivity software for a certain price.

Microsoft employees and those of a national retailer met twice and agreed on the resale price of "Office Home and Student 2007." An advertising campaign for the software then launched in October.

Under German law suppliers and retailers are allowed to discussed pricing strategies within some limits.However, they are not allowed to coordinate the pricing activities of the retailer and thus retailer and supplier agree on future actions of the retailer.

The government said that in the present case, this boundary has been crossed. Microsoft has accepted the fine although Microsoft has not said anything yet.

http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13082&Itemid=1


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Omega_Phazon_Pirate. on 10 April 2009

That's almost $12 million (USD). Although that's probably like a penny to MS.



                           

selnor on 10 April 2009

God. When they fine these giants. Make it worth it. Thats like fining someone in the UK 20 pence. :(



saimcheeda on 10 April 2009

any body know the value of euro against dollar??



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shinyuhadouken on 10 April 2009

lol...yup. That isn't very much.



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non-gravity on 10 April 2009

1 euro = 1,315 $



saimcheeda on 10 April 2009

man thats a lot of money!!!weird that much money is just a fine for these guys!!!



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Omega_Phazon_Pirate. on 10 April 2009

"any body know the value of euro against dollar??"

Did you bother reading my post?



                           

saimcheeda on 10 April 2009

i did but i didnt want to calculate the value so i just asked!!!



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Zkuq on 10 April 2009
saimcheeda said:
i did but i didnt want to calculate the value so i just asked!!!

You know what? I put up 'euro rate' in Google and Google told me the rate. It's that easy.

Anyway, it's good they're not tolerating things like this. Personally I think the supplier should only be allowed to determine the price at which they sell the product to the retailer (and that shouldn't differ between retailers unless there's a good reason) but after that, it should be the retailer that decides the prices.