Talk:Predatory pricing/Archives/2015
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The preceding sentence makes no sense
What is going on here: "In another example of a successful defense against predatory pricing, a price war emerged between the New York Central Railroad (NYCR) and the Erie Railroad. At one point, NYCR charged only a dollar per car for the transport of cattle. While the cattle cars quickly filled up, management were dismayed to find that Erie Railroad had also invested in the cattle-haulage business, and was thus profiting from NYCR's losses. The preceding sentence makes no sense"--Boric (talk) 17:15, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
Famous historical precedent: Standard Oil Trust
On the 2011 archived talk page, Jayson Virissimo remarks: "So far nobody has actually come up with an example where the predatory pricing strategy has worked in the real world."
But the Standard Oil Trust, declared an illegal monopoly in 1911, was surely the biggest and most blatant early example of just this strategy, practiced successfully in the real world, gaining control of nearly 90% of the oil refined in the U.S by 1878. (See also The Dismantling of The Standard Oil Trust, and note technique #1: "Temporarily undercutting the prices of competitors until they either went out of business or sold out to Standard Oil.") – •Raven .talk 10:36, 7 October 2015 (UTC)