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Mark Withington mwithington at PLMresearch.com
Wed Aug 11 14:27:48 EDT 2004


To my knowledge (limited I admit) discussing pricing in an open format is
not illegal.  Big biz does this all the time via newspapers, TV, etc. (you
don't really think the airlines are announcing a price hike for any other
reason than price signaling to their competitors do you).  

I agree that collusion is something to worry about, however, in our highly
fragmented industry I would doubt such charges would hold water.

But... I could be wrong ;-)

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-----Original Message-----
From: talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org [mailto:talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org] On
Behalf Of Hans C. Kaspersetz
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 2:22 PM
To: NYPHP Talk
Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] Site Quote


Wow!  This is truly scary. Do you have personal experience with this 
David?  You can respond off list.  I love our government.  More fodder 
for my fear and uncertainty.

Hans K

David Mintz wrote:

>>From the Paranoia Department:
>
>Beware of talking about numbers on a public forum. In other industries 
>the FTC has been known to investigate people for price-fixing for the 
>sin of conversing in just the way you guys are doing.
>  
>


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