Originally Posted by billhendren
Originally Posted by OneBadGMC
That's a violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust laws. It's called 'price fixing'.
Callies, by Federal Law, can only control the advertised price. They can not control what an individual business sells at.
A large amount of manufactures do this today,Dart,Brodix,Msd just to name a few. this only affects those of us who are warehouse distributors for there products. we cant advertise a product under Jobber and we cant sell under jobber unless its to another engine builder.Callie's insists on Racers Net for Compstar and jobber for the remainder of there line. we could sell for less but they cant be made to sell to us at W.D level,thats there option,if we don't play by the rules they will change our price level to jobber.Bill
Well, again, thats a violation of Federal Anti-Trust laws. If the WD guys would ban together, you could push the issue in federal court. Legally, they can only control advertised pricing, not actual sale price.
How would they even know in the first place? Do you really think a customer is going to bite the hand that feeds them the good deal?