[CAUT] Pricing of upright versus grand hammer installation

[Timothy Coates]

Wasn't there legal action taken against a certain large chapter in a 
major city in Minnesota about 25 years ago?  It had something to do 
with price fixing?   Maybe that's just a legend.

Tim Coates

On Apr 10, 2005, at 1:18 PM, Kent Swafford wrote:

> Sigh...
>
> While it is true that at one time, we relied on a generic antitrust 
> policy, this has not been true for quite some time. Our current 
> antitrust policy was developed specifically for us, at the PTG board's 
> insistence.
>
> One of the reasons that PTG members must not "blow off" antitrust 
> considerations is _because_ we are so small; we would be an easy 
> target.
>
> Our current antitrust policy is the best we have been able to do, and 
> we must follow it. To suggest otherwise is foolhardy, to put it 
> bluntly.
>
>
> Kent
>
>
>
> On Apr 10, 2005, at 12:28 PM, Fred Sturm wrote:
>
>> On 4/9/05 8:30 PM, "Jim" <jim@pianoguy.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Why not get the PTG to investigate and report factually on how the 
>>> A-T
>>> legislation does relate to our profession.
>>
>> Amen!! We rely on a generic legal opinion developed for professional
>> organizations - an opinion which may be valid for doctors, cpa's, 
>> lawyers
>> and the like, as their professional organizations have almost all
>> practitioners as members (thus are virtual monopolies) and are 
>> directly
>> involved in certifications which are commonly required by law (you 
>> can't
>> practice law without passing the bar exam, which is created and 
>> administered
>> by the ABA, for instance).
>>     But the situation of PTG is SO different from these organizations 
>> that I
>> don't believe we need have the least bit of worry with respect to 
>> anti-trust
>> laws, regardless of decades of paranoia and commonly held belief. We 
>> are
>> such a marginal profession, we probably don't even comprise a 
>> majority of
>> those "practicing the profession (loosely defined)," and our one
>> certification has no legal standing. How in the world can we "restrain
>> trade?" (even if we weren't such a bunch of individualists, and could 
>> come
>> to some sort of agreement as to prices).
>> Regards,
>> Fred Sturm
>> University of New Mexico
>>
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