[LINK] ACCC vrs ByteCard

[Glen Turner]

On 30/07/2013, at 4:41 PM, Roger Clarke <Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au> wrote:
> 
> "a contribution"??  So the judge considers that consumers should pay 
> for corporations' breaches of the law??

It's an attractive idea. Bytecard are relying on being at the cheap and shonky end of the market. So levying them forces their prices up. That both undermines Bytecard's business plan and raises consumer's expectation of the product's price beyond that where only shonky businesses can survive.

-glen