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    Posted: 31 Mar 10 at 6:46pm
Originally posted by Medway Maniac

I've often had occasion to curse the Consumers' Association (Which?) and their campaign to abolish Retail Price Maintenance all those years ago.

It does depress me that I have to chgange insurers or whatever every other damn year because they come back with crazy prices if you stay with them too long. But what I'd probably like to see more would be *wholesale* price maintenance, so that you know that if a vendor is charging you more its because they are taking an extra profit, and not because they are being ripped off by a wholesaler/manufacturer who charges the big chains half price... Maybe it would stop the supermarkets ripping off the poor damn farmers too.

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Originally posted by JimC

Originally posted by Medway Maniac

I've often had occasion to curse the Consumers' Association (Which?) and their campaign to abolish Retail Price Maintenance all those years ago.

It does depress me that I have to chgange insurers or whatever every other damn year because they come back with crazy prices if you stay with them too long. But what I'd probably like to see more would be *wholesale* price maintenance, so that you know that if a vendor is charging you more its because they are taking an extra profit, and not because they are being ripped off by a wholesaler/manufacturer who charges the big chains half price... Maybe it would stop the supermarkets ripping off the poor damn farmers too.

At renewal time every year I phone my home insurers and say I am going to cancel. It is amazing to see how quickly £200 is taken off my renewal premium. There are so many introductory offers around it does pay to cancel or threaten to cancel.

Pity it is not the same for dinghy insurance.
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