Smart pricing tool set to change the game for NZ accommodation providers (www.stuff.co.nz)

submitted 5 months ago by walter_wiggles@lemmy.nz to c/newzealand@lemmy.nz

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Technology company offers novel way for accommodation providers to fix prices.

This is what happened with a similar company in the US: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/20/rental-housing-market-doj-investigation-00147333

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[-] liv@lemmy.nz 5 points 5 months ago

That url title cracked me up.

I think you're right, in a small market like NZ this will quickly become price fixing. On the other hand NZ doesn't really seem to protect itself from this kind of carry on all that vigorously.

[-] _ed@sopuli.xyz 5 points 5 months ago

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