Sentences with phrase «predatory pricing made»

He stated: «Business model like Uber's - based on predatory pricing made possible by exploitation of drivers and multinational tax avoidance - is immoral.»

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In 1914 Congress enacted the Clayton Act55 to strengthen the Sherman Act and included a provision to curb price discrimination and predatory pricing.56 The House Report stated that section 2 of the Clayton Act was expressly designed to prohibit large corporations from slashing prices below the cost of production «with the intent to destroy and make unprofitable the business of their competitors» and with the aim of «acquiring a monopoly in the particular locality or section in which the discriminating price is made.»

Mr Morrice denounced the major retailers» petrol discounts, which are currently the target of a separate ACCC investigation, saying «excessively high predatory» petrol pricing made it very difficult for independent retailers to compete on a level playing field.

If the allegation is — and this is a common mistake that people make — that, say, Senator Colbeck is undertaking predatory pricing then the cost that is relevant is his cost.

Agency pricing, in which publishers set prices and booksellers take a fixed commission, promised to make it easier for small booksellers to compete by removing the threat of predatory pricing by retailing behemoths like Amazon.

If it is, in fact, trying to drive consumer prices down (and accept short - term losses) in order to be the only (or major) supplier of books to consumers and / or reseller of books from publishers, this can be viewed as predatory pricing — perhaps good for the consumer in the very short run, but less so in the long run, since there are significant fixed costs to establishing a similar e - book / bricks & mortar presence in the market, particularly in the light of Amazon's potential willingness to drop prices enough to make business untenable for the new entrant.

A lawyer in Florida who was put out of business, along with every other real estate lawyer in her city, by a six - month long (that is all it took) campaign of predatory pricing, and who, needing to make a living, then took a job with that industry (but is no longer doing much law), went on to describe the level of service (despite the now four times greater cost than the lawyers ever charged) that her new employer and its non-competitors now deliver to the public as shit (her word).