Re: Martix for price discrimination

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Right.  What about airline tickets?  There are ways around such laws.

On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 02:58:50PM -0700, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
> Price discrimination is an antitrust violation -- the
> statute is the Robinson-Patman Act -- that can expose
> the defendant to treble damages in a civil action, and
> even if you win you have to pay me, or someone like
> me, really godawful amounts of money to get you off.
> (This is in fact largely what I do for a living.) So,
> the citizen plaintiff is not without recourse! jks
>
>
> --- michael <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Anon. 2003. ?Is Price Discrimination The Next Big
> > Trend In Commerce??
> > San Jose Mercury News (7 August).
> > ?The Internet also gives sellers more information
> > about consumers than
> > ever before -- how many products they buy and when,
> > perhaps even how
> > many each can afford.  Eventually, two people might
> > get the same pop-up
> > ad for the same Zippo lighter, but one ad pitches
> > them for $15 while
> > another says they're $10.?
> > ?This vision of the Internet is the basis of a new
> > analysis from Andrew
> > Odlyzko, a former Bell Labs mathematician now at the
> > University of
> > Minnesota's Digital Technology Center.  Odlyzko
> > expects price
> > discrimination to become more pervasive not only
> > because so much
> > personal data is being collected in online commerce
> > but also as
> > technology, in the name of protecting copyrights,
> > limits what people can
> > do with online content.?
> > ?a few years ago, Coca-Cola Co. experimented with a
> > vending machine that
> > automatically raised prices in hot weather.?
> > ?the economy could suffer if technology helps
> > suppliers engage in price
> > discrimination against producers of important goods
> > and services.?
> >
> http://www.dtc.umn.edu/7/8odlyzko/doc/privacy.economics.pdf
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Michael Perelman
> > Economics Department
> > California State University
> > michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
> > Chico, CA 95929
> > 530-898-5321
> > fax 530-898-5901
>
>
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