Originally Posted by
kreativebargains
OK, joking apart Dzambo.
You have still missed some of the point.
If we use your DVD example. If I buy fake DVD's then rightly the company, Disney or whoever will have every right to prevent me from selling them. If however I go to my wholesaler and they are selling off actual Disney DVD's cheap and I buy them, then it should be up to me how much I charge for those DVD's. With this case, and in this case it is in the USA and relates to goods bought abroad, Disney would have the right to prevent me selling below the price that they state, even though the DVD is a genuine Disney product. They are trying to control the price not just that they sell at, but the price that everybody who sells their product sells at.
Companies undoubtably will say that this is in order to protect the quality of the product and creaye an equal marketplace for all sellers. But ultimately they are trying to manipulate the market in order to keep prices high. If everybody has to sell at a price fixed by the original maker what will happen? I have genuine Calvin Klein items. I could set up a stall outside the Calvin Klein store and try to sell them at the same price as they do, who are the buyers going to buy from, me or Calvin Klein? If however I sold them at a 70% discount then i would sell at least some (ignoring the fact that I would be arrested for street trading wiyhout a license).
This is about the price that people can charge for legally obtained, genuine articles. It is up to them who they sell to in the first place, and if they have a contract with that company then that is fine, if that company breaks that contract then sue them for breach of contract or stop supplying them. But once a company has sold goods that then come onto the market for whatever reason, and are legally obtained, the buyer should be free to do as he wishes with them, and to sell them where and for what price he wishes.