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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 3618879" data-attributes="member: 20741">It was most unwise and reflective of the current court's sharp ideological divide.Americans have little apprecation of the mischief minimum floor pricing causes. Canadians pay two to two and a half times the prices on many consumer electronics items because of minimum floor price fixing. It is highly anti-consumer. Check out Onkyo USA's prices in Canada  - where MSRP min floor price  is legal - and the USA, where until this past weeke it was not, for example. Many internet resellrs are prevented from shipping to Canada to preserve the floor price in Canada. Newegg can't ship to Canadians to preserve the artifical price market in Canada. You have no idea what mischief these bozos on the Supreme Court have just done to you all.However,when this percolates into the price stream - as it will - Congress will be inundated with complaints. It can be undone in Washington rather quickly by statute.  In any event - another administration will bring another appointment or two to the Court should the legislation not be amended directly.I do not think this decision will last long. But until then, America will have an opportunity to see what an extremely BAD idea relaxation of legislation meant to promote competitive pricing really is.The suggestion that this decision is "pure capitalism" as if that equated with a good thing for the market mentioned by Ryan Dancey was one of the most ignorant comments I have read anywhere this year in print - in any medium.</blockquote>

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