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> Porsche, BMW, and Daimler - claiming that they possess abusive and unfair positions in the luxury car market Can you explain how any of those examples are ab
by dingaling 12y ago
> Porsche, BMW, and Daimler - claiming that they possess abusive and unfair positions in the luxury car market
Can you explain how any of those examples are abusing their market dominance?
For example, if Porsche engines only ran on Porsche oil and petrol, available only from Porsche fuel stations which required an annual membership subscription, then that might be a problem.
- dogma1138 12y agoWell TBH when you deal with those types of cars you are actually tied to quite a bit of items if you want to keep the warranty on your car. BMW cars can only be services at specific authorized service centers, and you can only use approve lubricants, tires, and parts... And although the same goes for virtually any other car the luxury cars put a huge entry barrier for service providers and charge hefty fees for mechanic classes. But forget BMW, the best monopoly example is Tesla the cars can only be serviced by Tesla, every part is made by Tesla, and can only be sold by Tesla. One of the main reasons they actually released their patents to general use is that the US car companies were starting to build anti-trust cases against them...