"How is preventing your competitors from undercutting your price not anti-competitive? It's preventing the one thing that causes competition to lower prices."
Because Minimum Advertised Price (MAP) policies are one of the most common practices used by the large majority of consumer goods manufacturers and brands, especially in the electronics or higher end goods space.
Every retailer who is an authorized seller of a brand that employs a MAP policy has agreed to advertise/list/publish the product at a price no lower than MAP, or risk losing their reseller status. Note that I did not say they can't sell for a lower price, just that they cannot show a lower price to the general public to elicit a sale.
MAP is not just beneficial for the brand though, who's products remain priced accordingly to limits the brand has set; it's beneficial to the retailer who can count on a minimum set margin and not have to worry about being undercut by another retailer. It also benefits the end consumer by ensuring the retailer and brand retain enough margin on the sale to facilitate after-sale support and service as well provide the means to stay in business along with the benefit of helping to protect resale values (for applicable products). MAP policies themselves are fully legal under current anti-trust laws (in the US).
Yes, it most definitely is true. The company I work for designs and sells somewhat niche products geared towards photographers which we sell via our own website, retail camera stores and on Amazon. Since we do not allow our retailers to sell on Amazon so we are the only official seller of our products on the marketplace.
We ran a sale for Labor day where we discounted our products on our website, but did not discount them on Amazon. Within 36 hours of the prices being reduced on our website we started to receive notifications from Amazon that our "offers" were ineligible due to not having the lowest price. Upon checking the listings, they had removed the buy box, essentially making it a multiple-click process for anyone to actually buy the products.
This happens anytime we, or any of our retailers that have an ecommerce presence discount our products without discounting them on Amazon. It's ridiculous.
As someone who's created their own theme for VSCode this could've saved a ton of time.
However after trying to just change a couple colors I'm already extremely frustrated since I can't actually type a hex code in the color picker without it hijacking what I'm typing and adding characters, even when I'm trying to delete. The only thing that works is if I paste in a hex code. I'm not sure if this is an attempt at autocompleting the hex codes but whatever it is, it's maddening.
When I was in the army we did this regularly. My barracks roommate was our platoon medic and would stockpile as many IV bags as he could without causing suspicion. Anytime we had a late night of heavy drinking, before morning PT he’d hook up a bag and 20 minutes later we’d be feeling great and good to go,.
In the past when I've traveling, didn't have access to any equipment or didn't feel like running I've used the Sworkit app. It's free and allows you to pick time, type of workout etc. I've found it's better (at least for me) than trying to come up with an on-the-fly workout of my own.
I used Nylas for a while after it was first released and really liked it. Then one day out of the blue I started getting sync errors and it basically stopped working (I've talked to multiple people that this happened to). After spending a couple hours, removing, reconnecting, re-installing, all with no success I gave up and stopped using it (actually attempted using again a month or two later with the same results). Would've been great to have local sync from the beginning as I actually might've paid to use it if I wouldn't of encountered so many issues and lost time trying to fix them. Now it looks like everything that I used to use and like about the app is only included in the paid version, and there's no way I'm going to pay just to see if they fixed the issues.
I used Nylas for a while when it first came out and liked it alot. Then out of the blue one day I started to get errors that it couldn't/wouldn't sync, spent more time than I should've trying to get it to work again with no success, so I had to ditch it.
"Our existing codebase and workflows had served us well, but ten years of legacy was beginning to seriously hinder us from building the modern, fast, and mobile-friendly experiences that our users expect." - Taken from the second paragraph of the article. The reasons behind the project are explained in more detail here: http://ma.tt/2015/11/dance-to-calypso/
I don't really want to be negative but I really can't see how this could be used for anything other than a quick prototype scenario. I'm never going to add 126kb of css to a project just for shortcuts like this, it just doesn't make sense given that the large majority of that added css weight will never be used.
Even if the project delivered absolutely everything promised, and more, it's highly unlikely that it could gain enough adoption to challenge WordPress in any meaningful way. This is primarily due to being built on Node. One of the primary reasons WordPress is as popular as it is, is that you can install it on every single hosting provider out there and many of them provide a one-click or automated installation option. Very few hosting providers, or at least the shared and 'cheap' hosting providers have the ability to install Node and even fewer come with it pre-installed. The simple fact is that your average person that wants a website or blog will not have the knowledge or want, to go through getting all of that set up when using something like WordPress is as simple as clicking a button. Providers like Digital Ocean, are simply not a feasible option, or would even be considered by most non-technical people looking to build a blog/site.
I don't see why it would be difficult for hosting providers to adopt Node on their servers. They're already doing this offering VPS and the likes.
Also, I don't see why there wouldn't be a viable Node blogging platform that could be as user-friendly and as easy as WP if not much more. This definitely is very doable and Ghost and Co promised to achieve to do that but they failed yet to make any meaningful impact on the market.
They probably could, but it's more likely that the demand isn't enough to justify building out the required infrastructure and services to make things work properly in a shared hosting environment.
Because Minimum Advertised Price (MAP) policies are one of the most common practices used by the large majority of consumer goods manufacturers and brands, especially in the electronics or higher end goods space.
Every retailer who is an authorized seller of a brand that employs a MAP policy has agreed to advertise/list/publish the product at a price no lower than MAP, or risk losing their reseller status. Note that I did not say they can't sell for a lower price, just that they cannot show a lower price to the general public to elicit a sale.
MAP is not just beneficial for the brand though, who's products remain priced accordingly to limits the brand has set; it's beneficial to the retailer who can count on a minimum set margin and not have to worry about being undercut by another retailer. It also benefits the end consumer by ensuring the retailer and brand retain enough margin on the sale to facilitate after-sale support and service as well provide the means to stay in business along with the benefit of helping to protect resale values (for applicable products). MAP policies themselves are fully legal under current anti-trust laws (in the US).