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Originally Posted by kane
Did you read what you just wrote. You said it yourself. Standard gas SHORTED other gas stations that were not their preferred providers so they ran out. It appears they also charged different prices for the same product to different people because they were the only option available and he only company that sold oil in that area.
That is not what is happening here. Here you can get the full Taylor Swift album anywhere. But the one that they have at Target has a little bit more on it. nobody is being shorted. The normal version is available to anyone and everyone, a limited edition version is the one that is available at Target. It's not as if Swift refused to supply any records or only a tiny amount to one chain in order to force you to go to Target and buy the more expensive deluxe edition.
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so the full album has exactly the same content as the deluxe it just more expense
bullshit it two different grades of the same commodity (content in this case)
if i wanted the higher quality version i have to go to target
that medium extension of the content monopoly
standard oil did the same shit with grades of gasoline, short supplying (they however never did it zero like your tayor swift example) standard grades, and forcing competitors to buy premium grades at higher prices to meet their inventory levels.
the different prices issue your talking about was that type of price fixing.
it was basically were all out of regular gas, we can only give you 10% of your order, but we have plenty of premium gas at 20% more per gallon.
it basically an exclusive deal in reverse with the premium gas widely distributed and the regular one exclusively distributed.
really no difference in the terms of the abuse of the monopoly, still extending the commodity monopoly (content) to the distribution (medium).