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In anti-trust terms would this not be "dumping"
by syshum 5y ago
In anti-trust terms would this not be "dumping"
- st_goliath 5y agoOr maybe you could call it "being forced to return to reasonable prices now that their monopoly suddenly has competition again"? Well, at least that's what I remember comments on HN cheerfully proclaiming would happen back when Ryzen & Threadripper were launched.
- worrycue 5y ago“Reasonable price” has always been what the market will bare. This is true for all companies.
- Tuna-Fish 5y agoNo. Dumping is selling below the cost of production, with the intent of driving someone else out of a market. This is just normal price competition. It's a good thing.
- Apes 5y agoA monopoly becomes illegal when it negatively impacts consumers. If a company is able to lower costs to better compete with another company taking market share, wouldn't that imply that: 1. They had a defacto monopoly in the sector that allowed them to price above the fair market value. 2. They harmed consumers by pricing above fair market value.
- kinghajj 5y agoNo, it simply means that the market conditions changed. The price could very well have been a fair market value before, and still is a fair market value after; and the delta of these prices reflects the impact of the new conditions.