Old Apple price lists

I hate to bring it up, but there was litigation about Apple's control of the pricing of their products. Does this actually stem from that? I know that at least one dealer had an ongoing lawsuit over being able to advertise, sell as they desired, and the law was far from settled. as usual, the court system screwed the little guy in their interpretation (IMHO) and Apple and such won. I think that if laws were made allowing manufacturers which are making commodity units command the prices they should be invalidated. there is a hugh "channel" which has built up which makes a lot of money, and has moved the distribution of products up to larger players, rather than allow individual people to make deals, they force prices onto the resellers. If all the deals were truly independent you would have retained a free market, rather than the bloated and largely useless "channel" distributors out there. At least their business models would be way different, and the discounts and money would still being made by smaller dealers out in the areas where consumption and use is made, rather than by the large corporations. This is probably is way off topic of the original poster, but the price list put forth by Apple was key to the litigation since the dealer in question refused to recognize that they had to follow it. To this day, apple maintains a stranglehold over their prices, and are substantially higher than if dealers could sell over their costs in any way they wanted to. Jim On 12/5/2011 4:59 PM, Jason T wrote: