In Italy when the government reduced vat on ebooks from 22% to 4% not a single publisher passed the savings to the customer and they even increased the prices
thepreciousboar@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
In any reasonable country, that should be illegal. In many places it is
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
nexusband@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Name one. Price hikes are not illegal in any country in Europe. Changing prices after selling and other shady stuff is illegal in most European countries on the other hand, but this is not it. If the 55 were on sale before, a “sale” price can be axed as most see fit. This screams coincidence and bad luck to me.
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
It should be illegal for any store to increase prices by more than 0.5% per month for any product in my opinion.
Even if massive inflation hits they can still increase prices by 6% after a year, but they at least won’t be able to immediately increase prices by 10-20% after taxes are lessened or a month before a sale is supposed to start.
wolfpack86@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
All this will do is create a black market full of scalpers who are incentivized to buy the entire stock of a good if the market is willing to pay significantly more.
chillinit@lemmynsfw.com 5 weeks ago
An authoritarian, controlled economy will fail. We don’t need any more examples to understand why.
nexusband@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
You should loose the comma, then i agree with you. An authoritarian controlled economy will fail. A controlled economy is an absolut must.Without rules, that’s anarchism. That will fail either. Case in point: The USA. None of the rules are enforced and capitalism gone wild just bought the government outright.
desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
whatbif it’s a cash only store that wants all post-tax price to be integers or integers + quarters?