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October 28, 2004 Link to this post
Price fixing? Or something else?
This came in yesterday, but I wasn't around enough. Elite TAR sent us a link to a Dutch site with a rant about MS business practices - I'm basing this news post on his translation. Apparently, GCShop.nl is a student-run store which sells games at cost, in an attempt to give students an alternative to piracy. They were intending to sell Halo 2 LE copies for 52 Euros - but Microsoft told them that if they didn't raise the price to the MSRP of 65€, they wouldn't actually receive any. And they didn't. The biggest problem with this story is that other online stores (like, for example, this one in Germany) offer the Limited Edition for something very close to the reported 52€... and do NOT have this problem of price-fixed blacklisting. In any case, the issue is apparently being discussed in several forums around the net - folks should realize that there might be another side to this story. Update: Just noticed another article (this one in English) about this with roughly the same explanation as Elite TAR's (though without an explanation of how other retailers in Europe are managing to sell for less than the MSRP without a problem). Thanks, Slashdot. (Louis Wu 15:18:02 UTC)
