How Can You Avoid Being Stung by PC Hardware Price Collusion?

Price fixing goes against everything the so-called “free market” stands for. And it’s illegal. Even so, collusion plagues numerous industries. And the PC hardware industry is no different. PC hardware prices fell for a long time. As new, state-of-the-art of technology arrives on the market, older hardware falls in price. Or, at least it did. Now, unless you source second-hand technology, there is a premium attached to almost every piece of hardware. But the issue goes much further than that. There is a growing body of evidence heavily suggesting that there is widespread price collusion between several major hardware manufacturers. Let’s look at...

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