Re: Did I imagine it?

The message <f8o5au$9b3$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
from "Cerumen" <cerumen.chris@xxxxxxxxx> contains these words:

I thought it was abolished before I left UK in the mid 70's

That was Retail Price Maintenance, whereby a mfgr set a price and
vendors were obliged to stick to it. Killed off in 1964 in the UK, but
lingered on in things like the Net Book Agreement.

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Skipweasel
We have always been at war with Iran. [George Orwell - almost]
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