CONTAMINANTES
You paid what?! Europe's high prices break no laws, but collusion does
So when I saw that the competition commission had taken action against Nintendo for price-fixing, I wondered whether the European Commission was looking more broadly into the question of pricing in Europe. Why are the same products sold much more cheaply in the United States than they are in Europe, and can or should the regulators do anything about it?
The short answer is that this situation does not violate any law. [...]
Price gouging itself is not a crime; collusion is.