A quick sanity check of that statement using Google pulls this from the FTC's website: > Price fixing is an agreement (written, verbal, or inferred from conduc

A quick sanity check of that statement using Google pulls this from the FTC's website: > Price fixing is an agreement (written, verbal, or inferred from conduct) among competitors to raise, lower, maintain, or stabilize prices or price levels. Collusion doesn't stop being collusion just because one introduces a middleman.