Sentences with phrase «predatory pricing practices»

When Pet Business decided to tackle what many brick - and - mortar retailers describe as the predatory pricing practices of some Internet - based pet food outlets in our March cover story, we did so at the request of a number of our readers in the independent channel.

With perceived predatory pricing practices, including the so - called «denial of money» attack, so commonplace, it is no surprise that this aspect of cloud growth has become a meme and has even been jokingly referenced on the television show Silicon Valley.

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Penguin's filing (pdf) takes a host of shots at Amazon, which it repeatedly refers to as a monopoly that drove the retail price of some ebooks to $ 9.99 through «predatory, below - cost pricing practices... apparently designed to exclude competition and control the pricing of ebooks».

It is ruthless in its business practices and grip on market shares and probably breaks the law on predatory pricing.

Amazon practices predatory pricing by operating its business at break even.

The waiver contains strict conditions and guidelines to prevent the predatory practice of property flipping, in which properties are quickly resold at inflated prices to unsuspecting borrowers.

While all lenders depend on some form of risk - based pricing — tying interest rates to credit history — predatory lenders abuse the practice by charging very high interest rates to high - risk borrowers who are most likely to default.

Predatory Lending: A type of lending that falls between appropriate risk - based pricing and blatant fraud and combines certain products, terms, prices and practices.

But talk about predatory pricing and vendors» role in stopping the practice did not end there.

The «protectionist instincts» that I and others have are (1) to protect the independence of the bar (sure to be lost eventually under nonlawyer ownership), (2) to protect the health of the legal marketplace (sure to be badly harmed by the cartelization of ABS (see the 5 % commissions charged by the cartel of real estate agencies who still control the vast majority of the realty market, and especially see the ridiculously high costs of dealing with the American title insurance industry where four companies have upwards of 87 % of the conveyancing and title insurance market after first decimating the real estate bar with predatory pricing and other unfair business practices)-RRB-, and (3) to protect the public from those ravages.

Examples of anti-competitive conduct include: margin squeezing, pre-emption, exclusionary contracting practices, and predatory pricing.

They prohibit a variety of practices that restrain trade, such as price - fixing conspiracies, corporate mergers likely to reduce the competitive vigour of particular markets, and predatory acts designed to achieve or maintain monopoly power.