(Reuters) - Barnes & Noble Inc has objected to the U.S. government's proposed settlement of its price-fixing lawsuit against top publishers, saying it would harm book sellers and "millions and millions" of book buyers.
This experimental study confirms that price fairness influences not only the intention to buy but also some forms of negative behaviors that directly harm the seller, e.g., negative word of mouth, complaints, and leaving the seller.
"You are harming the sellers".
(Since Mr. Kopelman had told me my response might be forwarded to the buyer, I used an apologetic tone in an attempt to soften up the buyer and forestall negative feedback that might harm my seller's rating).
Some of these transactions will do no harm to the sellers: there are buyers at reasonable prices.
If the bargaining view of monopolies is correct, then the monopoly view of big business has exaggerated the degree to which dominant sellers harm the economy.
The argument that the slight harm to the sellers is more than offset by the lifesaving potential on the other end of the transaction is also troubling to Scheper-Hughes.
Strategic market behavior by permit sellers will harm the European Union (EU) as it is expected to become a large net buyer of permits in a follow-up agreement to the Kyoto Protocol.
Think of Stephen E. Ambrose's "Band of Brothers" or Stanton's own best seller, "In Harm's Way," the story of the survivors of the cruiser Indianapolis, which sank in shark-infested waters during World War II.
The harm to the cross-border drug sellers would result from large distribution companies filling patient orders directly if legal obstacles were removed.
