Showing posts with label ecommerce. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ecommerce. Show all posts

14 April 2013

French Politician Wants To Limit How Cheaply Companies Can Sell Goods Online Compared to Physical Shop Prices


A couple of weeks ago, Techdirt wrote about a store that was trying to charge customers $5 for "just looking", because it felt that many people were merely inspecting goods there before then buying them online. Guillaume Champeau points us to a French politician who is also worried about the same problem, and hasproposed modifying the law governing commerce to deal with it (original in French). Here's the politician's explanation in the preamble of why it is needed: