Slightly OT: Restricted selling

Jul 30, 2006 2 Replies

Currently when you buy a new car you can go to several dealers to see which will give you the best price. If a car company wanted to stop this they could tell their dealers not to give quotes to people who had already had a quote from another dealer according to their computer system.



My question is ... What law would that break?


The message from "CWatters" contains these words:

Well, you could ask them to delete your information from their records (as is your right under the data protection rules[1]) and then if they refuse to quote again it'll be because they've been naughty.

[1] At least, I'm fairly sure it is, but I CBA to look it up.

Thanks anyway.

Apparently the above is common in the brick industry.

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