| 'DK' |
|
3 |
| 'DK; |
|
1 |
| 'Dk'. |
|
1 |
| 'hard selling' of products to vulnerable people is very bad |
|
1 |
| .,............... |
|
1 |
| 1. Deliberate mislabelling or deceptive promotions.
2. Undue profiteering.
3. Hidden, supplementary 'small print' charges. |
|
1 |
| A Cartel. |
|
1 |
| A confidence trick |
|
1 |
| Accountant's fees |
|
1 |
| All car dealers agreeing to reduce the length of guarantees or the after-sales service to the same level. All schools only allowing children to take exams they're sure to pass, to maintain the schools' league table position. |
|
1 |
| An individual firm should be allowed to fix their own prices. Fixing prices in a cartel for similar products should be illegal and severely punished. |
|
1 |
| Any monopoly |
|
1 |
| As bad as Communism - it removes prices from free-market influence. |
|
1 |
| As bad as forcing people to pay the BBC over £120 a year to watch only ITV or Sky or any one of 500 other non-BBC channels. |
|
1 |
| As bad as property theft. |
|
1 |
| As bad as the council putting up tax every year and getting nothing to show for it in return |
|
1 |
| BAD |
|
3 |
| BAD - Comparable to HM Government 'fixing' statistics to make services appear better than they are e.g. the NHS and the economy. |
|
1 |
| BAD - it is like any other form of conning the public. |
|
1 |
| BAD BUSINESS PRACTICE DISCREDITS BUSINESS AS A WHOLE |
|
1 |
| BAD: It's comparable to Government stealth taxes, where the public have no choice and are charged through the nose just to line the pockets of a few (or Government purse)!
Not good at all. BAD for competition and giving the consumer a fair choice. |
|
1 |
| Bad |
|
1 |
| Bad in gereral it is a kin to bullying. The strong (coorporations) agreeing prices that the customer can not do anything about |
|
1 |
| Bank charges |
|
1 |
| Bank charges - prices are not fixed to be the same but there seems to be collusion to the general principle. |
|
1 |
| Bank charging and clearance times. |
|
1 |
| Banks and credit card companies charging ridiculous amounts of money when customers go over their overdraft limit. A fair charge of £2.50 is adequate coverage for their costs! |
|
1 |
| Banks and other utilities raising rates immediately but not reducing rates as fast when goods or rates go down |
|
1 |
| Banks have price fixing and do not take into consideration what the customer's needs are |
|
1 |
| Beating down prices paid to suppliers by group action. |
|
1 |
| Being held to ransom |
|
1 |
| Blackmail |
|
1 |
| Blatant lies in advertising |
|
1 |
| Bribery of a public offiial |
|
1 |
| Bully boy tactics. Bad. |
|
1 |
| Burglary, mugging, council tax. |
|
1 |
| Buying cartels -bad
Monopoly practices (particularly when one company buys up its competitors -bad |
|
1 |
| COMPARES TO GORDON BROWNS MASSIVE STEALTH TAXES.
ONLY TROUBLE IS HE CONSTANTLY GETS AWAY WITH IT WITHOUT ANY LEGAL CHALLENGE. |
|
1 |
| Charging ridiculously high amounts for sanitary products - for example, high street pharmacies. |
|
1 |
| Cheating the public and holding people who are a captive ordience at ransom |
|
1 |
| Cheating. |
|
1 |
| Comparable to theft and as bad |
|
1 |
| Conning customers into buying items of a higher value (pressuring them) for example, getting them to buy top of a range cd player when they sought only to get a basic one - using guilt techniques, shaming people and telling them that the lower cost ones w |
|
1 |
| Conning you with apparent reductions in prices when they have put the price up just before making the so-called reduction |
|
1 |
| Consciously selling faulty goods. |
|
1 |
| Conspiracy and organised crime. |
|
1 |
| Conspiracy to defraud |
|
1 |
| Conspiricy to obtain pecunary advantage by deception |
|
1 |
| Controlling supply of goods or services |
|
1 |
| Corporate crime is soft crime. It doesn't wreck somebody's life in the way that a serious assault might. |
|
1 |
| Corporate fraud |
|
1 |
| Could be compared to NHS waiting lists, or even trying to get an appointment with your GP, or finding a dentist. Also obtaining certain drug treatments for things like cancer or Alzheimer's. It is a lottery, and varies from area to area. Could also be a |
|
1 |
| Counterfeit or fake brsnds. |
|
1 |
| Court fines should depend on your income not the same for everyone, because the poorer person has to pay the same as a rich person who would not notice it. |
|
1 |
| Creating a monopoly. |
|
1 |
| DK |
|
411 |
| DK - I'm surprised to admit! |
|
1 |
| DKO |
|
1 |
| DRUG COMPANIES RIPPING OFF NATIONAL HEALTH |
|
1 |
| Daylight robbery |
|
2 |
| Deception, overcharging |
|
1 |
| Defrauding persons or Governments by not declaring earnings etc. |
|
1 |
| Deliberate overcharging and short changing. |
|
1 |
| Deliberately limiting supply in order to push prices up. |
|
1 |
| Deliberately not stocking a similar cheaper product |
|
1 |
| Dentists trained by NHS being allowed to go into private practice without 'repaying' their debt to society. For example if Dentistry training were completely free then Dentists should sign up for say 3 years to work in the NHS |
|
1 |
| Directors - After fixing for themselves high salaries giving themselves share options, bonuses, greatly improved pensions and the other perks just for doing the job that they should be doing for the high salary they so called justified the position warran |
|
1 |
| Disregard for customers opinions especially where competitors are all very similar |
|
1 |
| Dk |
|
2 |
| Dominamt employers agreeing to suppress wages artificially |
|
1 |
| Don't know |
|
1 |
| Dumping waste |
|
1 |
| EXTORTION |
|
2 |
| Embezzlement and Fraud |
|
1 |
| Embezzlement and fraud. Very bad. |
|
1 |
| Erroneous claims in advertising. Both are bad. |
|
1 |
| Estate agents who reserve the best properties for customers who pay them a premium in fees to search for and reserve a suitable property on their behalf. |
|
1 |
| FRAUD |
|
4 |
| Failure to adhere to Health & Safety Regulations for staff/customers and false advertising. |
|
1 |
| False Advertising |
|
1 |
| Fat Cat Salaries |
|
1 |
| Fixed prices for Dentistry or Health matters i.e. Bupa |
|
1 |
| Fixed-penalty speed offences in that is creates a defined revenue stream. |
|
1 |
| Fixing prices closes competition and a fair market and trading. It is comparable to a 'closed shop' mentality and exclusion of individuals who may benefit organisations and communities. |
|
1 |
| Fixing prices is as bad as any other practice that directly undermines the economy of a country |
|
1 |
| Fixing prices is comparable to miss-selling a service or product in terms making a false description or claims in advertising. |
|
1 |
| Fixing prices is fine when people can chose to buy or not buy but is not a good thing for essential services e.g water, gas etc: |
|
1 |
| Fixing prices would be good if the after sales service was improved! |
|
1 |
| Fixing the wage a full time carer can recieve |
|
1 |
| Fraud |
|
11 |
| Fraud and stealing |
|
1 |
| Fraud or theft |
|
1 |
| Fraud- in the arts or real estate or shares where the price of an object is knowing overstated in order to gain an unearned profit without adding any value. |
|
1 |
| Fraud. |
|
4 |
| Fraud. It is charging more for an item than it is actually worth, where a seller could reasonably sell cheaper, and fairer to the public. |
|
1 |
| GOOD |
|
1 |
| Gas and electricity prices. I've changed twice this year because of price increases with different suppliers. If there was one standard price I would not need to keep changing. |
|
1 |
| Giving short measure or making false claims. |
|
1 |
| Good |
|
1 |
| Good pratice would allow companies to make reasonable charges to cover costs, wages etc and make reasonable profit to allow business to grow |
|
1 |
| Government Policies |
|
1 |
| Hidden discounts for certain groups of 'privileged' customers, staff discounts not necessarily excluded |
|
1 |
| Highway robber. |
|
1 |
| I consider it to be as bad as theft or obtaining money by deception |
|
1 |
| I think each branch of a company should have the same prices for each branch. What prices each company chooses for it's branches is their choice and customers can choose where to shop. |
|
1 |
| I think it is in line with theft |
|
1 |
| I think we should have the choice and freedom to be able to shop around and chose where and when we buy our products |
|
1 |
| I'll bet most of those that do were the school bullies in their youth. That's what it boils down to. Taking advantage of those helpless to fight back to get their own way! |
|
1 |
| INSIDER DEALING |
|
1 |
| If there are other choices in the market (e.g. if we were talking about train fares being fixed, while bus fares remain responsive to market demand) then BAD would not be an adjective to use (FOOLISH, perhaps). If, on the other hand, we are talking about |
|
1 |
| Ignoring safety regulations i.e. fire security. |
|
1 |
| In some cases it could be as bad as very rich people stealing from very poor people. Especially where it is an essential product or service which is being fixed, e.g. train travel |
|
1 |
| In terms of horrendous deaths it makes the deaths, all the deaths, in WW11 absolutely meaningless. We had a small chance in 1945, then Franklin Delano Roosevelt died on 12th April 1945, I would not put it past the neocons to start bombing Iran that day, a |
|
1 |
| Incorrect scales (including sleight of hand) - deliberately producing product weight shortages. |
|
1 |
| Insider dealing |
|
1 |
| Insider dealing and other white collar crime. |
|
1 |
| Insider dealing fraud. |
|
1 |
| Insider dealing. |
|
1 |
| Insider trading |
|
3 |
| Insurance companies who you have dealt with for years not giving you as good a deal as new customers. Same for mortgage lenders. |
|
1 |
| Is is theft and fraudulent practice - pure and simple |
|
1 |
| It becomes a cartel over which the public has no redress and it is purely for profit for those in the cartel plus the public have no choice |
|
1 |
| It equals fraud. |
|
1 |
| It fraud |
|
1 |
| It has long since been proven that price fixing works against the consumer |
|
1 |
| It is ,in a way,a form of extortion,as it forces people to pay for items or services that they MUST have,at a rate over which they have no control. |
|
1 |
| It is a form of fraud. It causes inflation. |
|
1 |
| It is a form of stealing, which is a criminal offence. |
|
1 |
| It is morally wrong and some businesses know that customers at times have no choice but to purchase from them ie local shops when cust. have no option but to buy from them as they have no other means of getting to other shops |
|
1 |
| It is something like ganging up or bullying, where they impose a price on goods which they know you cannot get cheaper easily, so they force the customer to pay a high price. Unfair. |
|
1 |
| It is theft |
|
1 |
| It's as bad as stealing a little old lady's pension; the outcome could be that she freezes/starves to death in the worst possible scenario. |
|
1 |
| It's just dishonesty and has affinities with theft - if it's in a field of essentials it also has aspects of extortion. |
|
1 |
| It's like obtaining money by deception |
|
1 |
| It's not as black and white as it may seem. |
|
1 |
| It's only as good/bad as many other 'retail industry' tricks, for example negotiating a deal with a specific supplier to promote their brand. |
|
1 |
| It's plain stealing. |
|
1 |
| It's theft |
|
1 |
| Its almost like stealing from people |
|
1 |
| Its cheating people out of there money |
|
1 |
| Its the same as conning you out of your hard earned money. |
|
1 |
| Large supermarket chains squeezing suppliers' profit margins |
|
1 |
| Local/National government making decisions without consultation with the public |
|
1 |
| MANSLAUGHTER |
|
1 |
| MArking up Sale Items |
|
1 |
| MISS SELLING ENDOWMENT POLICIES |
|
1 |
| Many of practices introduced to maximise 'choice' when in fact people may not have a choice - for example getting rid of local hospitals, introducing selection in schools etc. |
|
1 |
| Mis selling of insurances |
|
1 |
| Mis-leading advertisements |
|
1 |
| Mis-selling financial services |
|
1 |
| Misuse of company pension funds bad.
Excessive pay incresses for senior management bad. Cost cutting at the risk of safety and security bad. |
|
1 |
| Monopolies |
|
2 |
| Mugging |
|
1 |
| NHS post code lottery. |
|
1 |
| Newspaper share experts tipping shares they've already bought. |
|
1 |
| OK |
|
3 |
| Obscene bonuses paid to directors in addition to the already obscene salaries they are given - note that I do not say 'earn'. |
|
1 |
| Online fraud |
|
1 |
| Other types of impersonal corporate crime. |
|
1 |
| Over packaging |
|
1 |
| PROMISING CASHBACK OR FRREE GIFTS AND THEN RENEGING BCAUSE THEY HAVE UNDERESTIMATED THE TAKE UP |
|
1 |
| Passing off counterfeit products as if they were genuine. |
|
1 |
| Phone in competitions that are not competitions but charge lines to make money Its dishonest |
|
1 |
| Political parties colluding, for example over europe, to ensure that the result in a referrendum is reached |
|
1 |
| Price fixing can be a form of blackmail - either pay our prices or do without. This is particularly unfair when it comes to essential food and necessities of life. |
|
1 |
| Price fixing is cheating and in part, denying customer choice. |
|
1 |
| Price fixing is theft. |
|
1 |
| Price fixing leads to the stifling of competition, which can lead to a consensus on prices, which is not good for the consumer, and will inevitably lead to a rise in prices. |
|
1 |
| Profiteering, such as from illegal bank charges. |
|
1 |
| Putting prices up for a short time to show a generous reduction later. |
|
1 |
| Putting prices up in stores a short while before cutting them in a blaze of publicity eg Tesco recently. |
|
1 |
| Raising prices and then reducing them as a 'sale' |
|
1 |
| Restricting retail outlet variety |
|
1 |
| Restricting the sale/provision of essential commodities. |
|
1 |
| Robbery |
|
2 |
| Robin Hood in reverse give to the rich and take from the poorer |
|
1 |
| STEALING |
|
3 |
| Same as standardising products. |
|
1 |
| Selling Faulty Goods |
|
1 |
| Selling fake branded goods |
|
1 |
| Selling faulty/ unsafe goods |
|
1 |
| Selling goods which are known to be poor quality, unreliable and possibly even unsafe. |
|
1 |
| Selling milk under the cost of production is far worse, grey or parallel importing of goods from foreign countries depriving British business of revenues is comparable. Putting the good strawberry on top of the punnet is comparable. |
|
1 |
| Selling products with false descriptions eg pirating or selling fake clothing as though it were real |
|
1 |
| Significantly different prices in different countries. |
|
1 |
| Since it is against the law in this country I fail to see the relevance of this line of questioning. |
|
1 |
| Solicitors and Estate Agents |
|
1 |
| Special offers that are not really special offers |
|
1 |
| Stealing |
|
8 |
| Stealing and Fraud |
|
1 |
| Stealing!!! |
|
1 |
| Stealing/Theft |
|
1 |
| Stealth Taxes |
|
1 |
| Supermarkets providing free bus services to rural villages to transport local shop customers to their store. This is particularly 'BAD' when such 'services' only target rural villages with shops. |
|
1 |
| Supplying limited types/makes of products i.e., only Hienze and shops own label beans but not cross & blackwell or HP. |
|
1 |
| THEFT |
|
1 |
| THIEFT |
|
1 |
| Taking a 'Party' line where it conflicts with the position on which you were elected |
|
1 |
| Tantamount to fraud. |
|
1 |
| Tax dodging |
|
1 |
| Tax evasion |
|
1 |
| The current regime of unlawful bank charges |
|
1 |
| The legal profession, who always seem to make money, no matter who is right or wrong. |
|
1 |
| The prices football fans pay on entry to grounds to watch their teams play comes strongly to mind, also the price of football shirts. |
|
1 |
| The pricing behaviour on monopolies (water) and the government - tax concealed by excessive track charges to force up rail fares. |
|
1 |
| The yearly pay rises for council staff & other public service employees. The service provided is mediocre/poor, and the terms are pay up or else (like the mafia) |
|
1 |
| Theft |
|
11 |
| Theft
Deception |
|
1 |
| Theft and Dishonesty |
|
1 |
| Theft, deception, fraud |
|
1 |
| Theft, fraud. |
|
1 |
| Theft. It removes the ability for demand to set price and imposes a false price on the consumer that they cannot avoid |
|
1 |
| There is no reason for price fixing, I am old enough to remember wnen prices were fixed, we had no choice, now when my husband and I shop we go to shops we trust because of there back-up.
I also think the UK gets taken for a ride, ie Sony Play Station |
|
1 |
| This question is facile. |
|
1 |
| Underpaying staff,or not investing in training |
|
1 |
| Unfair competition in terms of 'loss leaders' where 'big' business has the advantage and can push small operators out of business - very bad.
Similar situation with public transport - especially on bus routes where larger operators can stand heavier loss |
|
1 |
| Unfair extra charges, that are not in relation to the work required.. I.E Bank charges for sending letters for overdrawn, unpaid DD's etc |
|
1 |
| Using large amounts of packaging to make something more attractive and consequently putting it up for sale at a higher price. |
|
1 |
| Utility companies who put up prices when the cost of the commodity goes up ie gas, but do not lower the prices when the cost goes down |
|
1 |
| VAT and fuel tax |
|
1 |
| VERY BAD SIMILAR TO FRAUD |
|
1 |
| Voting in the House of commons on party lines not constituancy grounds |
|
1 |
| What kind of question is that? Who writes this shit? Laura, is that you? |
|
1 |
| When owners of large stores move in on the products sold by the owners of small, independent stores and seriously undercut their prices. |
|
1 |
| `DK` |
|
1 |
| anti-trade union practices |
|
1 |
| artificially limiting stock availability |
|
1 |
| bad |
|
5 |
| bad is what I refer to fixing gas & electricity suppliers,
if a company charges to much, and makes a lot of profit, I think they should be fined, and told to repay there customers if known (this is the case with gas & electricity suppliers)a percentage o |
|
1 |
| bank charges |
|
1 |
| banks only offering certain savings accounts if you have a current account with them |
|
1 |
| being business minded |
|
1 |
| car clocking |
|
1 |
| car fixing price in uk at a cost dearer that europe is wrong and bad |
|
1 |
| cheating |
|
1 |
| cheating or lying |
|
1 |
| communist |
|
1 |
| comodity shortages and prices go high straight away but come down slowly when the shortage is over |
|
1 |
| conspiracy to defraud |
|
1 |
| corruption |
|
1 |
| could restrict payments to poor suppliers keeping rewards down to them |
|
1 |
| council tax charges |
|
1 |
| creating artificial shortages to increase prices. |
|
1 |
| credit card fraud/theft |
|
1 |
| customer choice |
|
1 |
| d/k |
|
2 |
| deliberately miss representing goods |
|
1 |
| deliberately overcharging |
|
1 |
| dishonest description of goods |
|
1 |
| dishonesty is bad behaviour |
|
1 |
| dk |
|
355 |
| dk# |
|
1 |
| dn |
|
1 |
| dodgy bank charges |
|
1 |
| don't know |
|
2 |
| dont know |
|
1 |
| false claims of a product (eg when Ribeana claimed it's toothkind was good for teeth) |
|
1 |
| fixed prices on a mortgage is good ans gas also |
|
1 |
| fixing bank charges |
|
1 |
| fixing prices is a good fair way to treat all cutomers. |
|
1 |
| fixing prices is comparable to extortionate bank charges - it is unfair towards the consumer but you are potentially limited to what action you can take. |
|
1 |
| fixing private school fees to keep price inflated |
|
1 |
| fraud |
|
13 |
| fraud, profiteering |
|
1 |
| fraud/theft |
|
1 |
| fuel prices even when the price of crude oil drops |
|
1 |
| gaming /lottery/raceing |
|
1 |
| gh |
|
1 |
| good |
|
1 |
| grand larceny. financial market abuse. |
|
1 |
| greed |
|
1 |
| hiding unfavourable conditions in jargon or small print |
|
1 |
| holding people to ransom financially |
|
1 |
| i think a fixed price would be a good idea, but that fixed price would need to be a sensible, affordable price. |
|
1 |
| i think there will always be places that consumers can get a product cheaper e.g. the internet, so it doesnt matter too much if 3 local retailers come together to decide there own pricing. |
|
1 |
| insider share dealing |
|
1 |
| insider trading or money for honours |
|
1 |
| internet/broadband prices should all be the same price |
|
1 |
| is bad practice as is anything which takes advantage of people and doesn't allow free market choice |
|
1 |
| it is as bad as shop lifting. |
|
1 |
| it is dishonest, similar to making claims about health benefits that don't exist on foods or health products |
|
1 |
| it is like stealing |
|
1 |
| it's about lack of choice. The least well informed lose out. Business is about profit - consumers are about best value and should set the market. Price fixing is about power and control. Bad. |
|
1 |
| its the same as all football grounds agreeing on a entrance fee, or companies charging the same price all over the country , instead of charging in relation to the areas wage scale. |
|
1 |
| keeps prices high |
|
1 |
| large retailers in a small population area like the highlands,controling the local economy. |
|
1 |
| loan sharks |
|
1 |
| local councils incresing council tax by ridiculous amounts each year, government making it impossible to make a profit when in small business |
|
1 |
| manufacturers telling retailers what to charge
holding the shopper to ransom |
|
1 |
| match fixing in sports ie bad |
|
1 |
| misleading the public |
|
1 |
| misleading/false statements regarding the service/item to induce a sale |
|
1 |
| monopolies |
|
1 |
| monopolies
take overs designed to gain majority market share |
|
1 |
| monopoly |
|
3 |
| monopoly creation |
|
1 |
| monopoly situations |
|
1 |
| most price's are governed by the suppliers price, smaller companies have to be able to compete fix pricing would seriously damage thier business as they can not purchase in the same quantitiesas large companies.
it is much fairer to set an acceptable pro |
|
1 |
| murder |
|
1 |
| na |
|
1 |
| neutral |
|
1 |
| none |
|
1 |
| not sure |
|
1 |
| oil cartels |
|
1 |
| ok |
|
20 |
| only for the benefit of the producer |
|
1 |
| over chanrging |
|
1 |
| pretty bad |
|
1 |
| price fixing gives the consumer no choice part of buying something expensive (ie sofa, electrical appliances) involves looking around for a good deal. Price fixing can be done to products where the prices are similar anyway and don't change from year to y |
|
1 |
| price fixing is akin to theft |
|
1 |
| price fixing prevents competition |
|
1 |
| price fixing to supply products vital to the Health service:-
medicines
hardware etc |
|
1 |
| prices fixings.is bad a round |
|
1 |
| recommending some product as Healthy when it is no such thing, just called that to sell more to unsuspecting gullable people. |
|
1 |
| rip off britain comes instantly to mind when this happens |
|
1 |
| robbery |
|
1 |
| sell and demand, i.e a company will only make a certain amount of models in order to justify charging a higher price, when really they could have made a larger number of models quite easily and charged a cheaper price and made exaclty the same profit |
|
1 |
| selling harmful or dangerous products to customers |
|
1 |
| shoplifting |
|
1 |
| slightly exceeding the speed limit when it is safe to do so |
|
1 |
| small out of town shops where people cannot get in |
|
1 |
| stealing |
|
11 |
| stealing from someone |
|
1 |
| stealing from vulnerable people |
|
1 |
| stealth taxes imposed by Gordon Brown |
|
1 |
| supermarkets fixing items such as milk prices paid to farmers |
|
1 |
| suppliers restricting supply of goods |
|
1 |
| surely it's liking fixing a race or football match |
|
1 |
| takes away free market competition and is a form of bullying to the consumer as they have little or no choice if they need the product but to pay whatever price has been fixed |
|
1 |
| taking bribes |
|
1 |
| taking money under false pretences |
|
1 |
| theft |
|
13 |
| theft
fraud
lying |
|
1 |
| theft and deception |
|
1 |
| theft, lying, deceiveous nature, misleading, deliberatly cheating |
|
1 |
| they put note that their prices say 20p cheapest than so so |
|
1 |
| thieving |
|
1 |
| ticket touting,council tax assessment |
|
1 |
| too high pricing |
|
1 |
| very bad |
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| voting fraud and news management are as bad |
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| wAITING TIMES ON 0870 NUMBERS |
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| wages of the people of this country and Taxes of people of this country and not forgetting the cigarettes and the tax we pay on them instead of getting people to stop why dont they shut tabacco firms down |
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| when creidt company fix prices at 400% above base rate |
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| when insurance companies refuse to pay for claims that they state are not covered or should have been claimed for before a certain date. mainly pet insurance which will only cover a part of the animal once but still take the full premium price without re |
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| when price fixing is solely to inflate profits - and especially when it is on essential goods / services it is akin to operating a cartel. |
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