In One of Its Least Favourite Actions,Amazon

question 60

Multiple Choice

In one of its least favourite actions,Amazon.com was caught fiddling with its price tags.Avid Blu-Ray shoppers found that the online store was offering different customers different prices for the same Blu-Ray,and complained vociferously.Amazon was caught red-handed.It was,company officials admitted,trying to see how much it could charge for an item before shoppers balked.No matter what the reasoning behind it,Amazon.com was using:

• A)horizontal price fixing.
• B)resale price maintenance.
• C)price discrimination.
• D)predatory pricing.

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