Isn't chinchilla.com's monopoly illegal?

[Riven]

.com isn't doing anything other than auctioning the chin, it's like ebay. Everyone needs to understand that it's the breeder's choices, not .com's.

In many jurisdictions, competition laws place specific restrictions on monopolies. Holding a dominant position or a monopoly in the market is not illegal in itself, however certain categories of behavior can, when a business is dominant, be considered abusive and therefore be met with legal sanctions.

If they chins came with a no-breeding in the US contract, then it might be a little different, but... here's where things get sticky. In law an animal is a possession, there for any new traits worked on, in a herd are kind of like personal property. Because they are not a big business taking over ALL chins, they are not a monopoly. The easiest way to describe it would be similar to intellectual property or art type property. If an artist creates a work ( in this case a chin ) they as the creator have the right to keep or sell the item. They could chose to have it show cased in a gallery ( in this case .com is the gallery, they don't own it, didn't make it, they just are selling it for the maker ). It's possible that every other gallery in the city or nation would LOVE to have these works, but, since they are limited works and are not mass produced, the artist ( in this case the breeder ) can be selective about where the works go to.

If that makes sense to anyone other than me, lol.

They aren't ( and can't ) prevent anyone else in the US from breeding them, they simply aren't selling them in the US, they are choosing their market, although they have the "market" on them now, it's not because they are forcing people out or preventing them from selling or carrying the same "product".

 

[chin_gal]

.com isn't doing anything other than auctioning the chin, it's like ebay. Everyone needs to understand that it's the breeder's choices, not .com's.



If they chins came with a no-breeding in the US contract, then it might be a little different, but... here's where things get sticky. In law an animal is a possession, there for any new traits worked on, in a herd are kind of like personal property. Because they are not a big business taking over ALL chins, they are not a monopoly. The easiest way to describe it would be similar to intellectual property or art type property. If an artist creates a work ( in this case a chin ) they as the creator have the right to keep or sell the item. They could chose to have it show cased in a gallery ( in this case .com is the gallery, they don't own it, didn't make it, they just are selling it for the maker ). It's possible that every other gallery in the city or nation would LOVE to have these works, but, since they are limited works and are not mass produced, the artist ( in this case the breeder ) can be selective about where the works go to.

If that makes sense to anyone other than me, lol.

They aren't ( and can't ) prevent anyone else in the US from breeding them, they simply aren't selling them in the US, they are choosing their market, although they have the "market" on them now, it's not because they are forcing people out or preventing them from selling or carrying the same "product".

Now this makes a lot of sense to me. Thank you.

 

[Chinmandan]

I want Jim or CCCU to show angora pelts at the National Show to see how they do. Ralph Shoots is always talking about the value of long fur.....

 

[jags]

Long fur is one thing but it must be strong stand up fur to look good.

 

[Ash]

I want Jim or CCCU to show angora pelts at the National Show to see how they do. Ralph Shoots is always talking about the value of long fur.....

I doubt he means Angora-long fur, though I could very well be mistaken.

 

[tunes]

I doubt he means Angora-long fur, though I could very well be mistaken.

I'm sure Dan was making a joke. He knows Ralph pretty well.

 

[Siylvat]

So then, is there anything stopping overseas breeders who have these chins from selling them back to people in the US? Is it just that there is no demand in the US? Or no overseas people want to give them up now?

 

[threewingedfury]

Well considering the price to ship overseas, and then to ship them back, most people would be paying double the price to get them back over here. I don't think there's enough demand to pay that much and to deal with that much of a hassle.

 

[mishalaa]

Even if they did allow US sales, I don't know how much demand there'd be for a grand a pop...