What does fluther think about LCD Price Fixing?

This is nothing new. They hit Samsung with $300 Mil fine for price fixing of DRAM chips in 2005, so it is hardly an isolated incident. The iceberg you speak of is one of the major bugaboos associated with unrestrained free trade. Globalization is good only if all the players agree not to cheat, and agree to appropriate governance. China, in particular, has been reluctant to agree to either. It’s hard for the U.S. DOJ to go it alone against these foreign-based mega-corporations, and this sort of thing is not going to stop any time soon.

It’s probably too early for the effects of the ruling to trickle down to consumer prices. Don’t expect anything extra from Santa this year.

What about projectors? I mean c’mon—LCD+lamp+fan—It can’t be that expensive!

@jessehattabaugh It’s not that expensive to produce which means that you can get one hell of a profit margin. Remember that the value of something isn’t based on what it costs to produce, but rather what people are willing to pay for it.
Of course, packaging and shipping and selling also add to the price…