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Ah so it's OK to charge people you don't like (wrong skin color say) more because it's a free market? There's a difference between giving bulk discounts and se

• gregpilling 16y ago
  No, it is not legal to charge people a different price if their skin is purple instead of blue. In the OP example, he is talking about web delivered services where it would be difficult to determine someones skin color anyway. In my example the price of budweiser varies by location and circumstance, not by the color of the purchasers skin.
• jacquesm 16y ago
  That's not price discrimination, that's discrimination, period, this article has nothing to do with that kind of discrimination so I don't understand why you're pulling it in. And that is illegal anyway, as well it should be. Selling the same product at different price points is done all the time (bulk discounts, account discounts and so on). The issue here is not whether it is legal to sell the same product at different prices, the issue is whether or not it is legal to offer the same product to the same class of buyers at different prices at the same time. And that is legal, even if not always in the best interest of the business: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination I've done it, briefly, to test different price points and I made sure to refund those we tested at a higher level after the experiment was over.