[Rembrandt]

"They aren't price fixing, just trying to protect other retailers from the price wars."
~~
If I sell you a piece of merchandise for $200 and tell you that you can't charge a dollar less than $400, that is clearly price fixing.

[stevestras]

"If I sell you a piece of merchandise for $200 and tell you that you can't charge a dollar less than $400, that is clearly price fixing"

No, it's MSRP.

The manufacturer is not required to sell goods to anybody. If they don't like the way a retailer prices, it's their choice not to fill the next order. I think it's bad business in this case, but certainly understandable in some situations.

[Stone Mountain]

If I sell you a piece of merchandise for $200 and tell you that you can't charge a dollar less than $400, that is clearly price fixing.

No, that's not what price fixing is. Price fixing is when a bunch of companies or retailers illegally collude to offer a product for a price siginificantly more or less than the regular market price. Having a manufacturer set the retail price of his own product is not price-fixing.