<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1491" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: = Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=rol= e_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 4/11/05 10:38:01 A.M. Central Daylight Time, jtanner@mozart.sc.edu writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><= FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size= =2>> Wasn't there legal action taken against a certain large chapter in a <BR>&= gt; major city in Minnesota about 25 years ago?  It had something to do <BR>> with price fixing?   Maybe that's just a legend.<BR>><BR>> Tim Coates<BR>><BR><BR>There was.  It is n= ot legend.<BR><BR>Jeff Tanner, RPT<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>From what I remembered, what got the Twin Cities chapter in trouble was= that they actually made a motion, and voted, to charge a specific price, or = a minimum price, for tuning. That, I think is what got them in trouble. Althou= gh we should abide by the Antitrust Guidelines, some of them are pretty far out= . I don't think there is anything wrong with discussing how much we charger for particular things, as long as we don't make any kind of statement along the lines of "let's all do that". I will probably be told that that is not right= either, but that's my story, and I'm sticking to it. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Wim </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>