My apologies if this point has already been covered, but isn't there a distinction between discussing past/current pricing and intended future pricing? It seems to me that if I discuss what I intend to charge with someone else in the industry then I am indeed colluding with them, though whether to a level that would have any impact on the market is another question. However, if we share information about what we charged in the past or what we are charging currently then we are not colluding because we are sharing facts (which cannot be changed based on the shared information), not intentions (which can).
In any industry that produces a hard product, past and current prices are common knowledge; why would the sharing of that information in the services industry be collusive? In that respect, salary and rate surveys collect current and past information and so cannot be collusive. I wonder what would happen if someone did a rate survey based on the question: "What do you intend to charge for your next job?" Keith > -----Original Message----- > From: Dean H. Saxe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 9:50 AM > To: CF-Jobs > Subject: RE: Hourly Wages? and freedom of speech > > > Given the fact that this does not represent a majority of web > developers or > even CF developers, we can hardly be considered to be practicing "price > fixing" in this case. This discussion has been rehashed on > multiple lists > over the years, the general consensus is that the HTML Writers > Guild is wrong. > > -dhs > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_jobs or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
