Comment on The rent is too damn algorithmic — DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb is investigating RealPage, a company that helps landlords set rent prices, for potential antitrust violations

henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The issue is that it sets the same prices for all its clients, so they all move in tandem. The more clients in one area using, the stronger the profit for everyone.

  This is the same thing as those parties colluding to all raise their prices in tandem, they have just outsourced the collusion.

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  • agent_flounder@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Streamline your Price Fixing shenanigans with our Tenant Screwer 3000™

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