Could you give us other examples?

I really can't think of any others. Which is why RealPage has been so newsworthy.

If you have examples of such a company in other industries, please share.

I mean we all have chatgpt now:

  Industry          Companies
  ----------------  --------------------------------------
  Apartments        RealPage, Yardi, Rentana, Entrata
  Hotels            IDeaS, Duetto, RoomPriceGenie
  Airlines          PROS, Amadeus
  Grocery           Revionics, Yieldigo, Competera
  Retail            Pricefx, Omnia Retail, Wiser Solutions
  E-commerce        Prisync, Price2Spy, Intelligence Node
  Manufacturing     Zilliant, Vendavo
  Vacation rentals  PriceLabs, Beyond, Wheelhouse
  Events/tickets    DynamO Pricing, Digonex

It's pretty bold to name the price fixing software Pricef(i)x

You've never used salary data at a work place?

Companies like Radford collect salary information aggregated and share it with Radford who then sell it to other companies trying to set salary levels for similar roles.

These companies buying services from Radford are indirectly colluding through Radford, just like RealPage.

RealPage isn't even the only one in its industry:

https://imgur.com/a/RR2vWnJ

No one cared about those of us hurt by this company to even bother filing a lawsuit against them.

I had a plumber over to quote a HVAC replacement, while he was working up the quote I saw his iPad where his was inputting the equipment for costs etc, then it flipped over to an area that showed my home estimated value, my estimated household income and a ton of other economic measures that gave them sweet spots for their quote. While I obviously know people do this, to see it so blatantly laid out (it wasn’t meant for my eyes) was very gross.

By the way, the home value and income estimates were higher than reality, and his quote was also fairly high - though not the highest

That sort of counters the advice to get three quotes. If every bidder has that info, it may be harder to get the "best" price.

Not really, because a slightly smarter (or more motivated) seller will realize they can make the sale by being slightly lower than the other sellers.

A buyer should also ask the sellers for a lower price after the initial prices are given.

Except in RealPage's situation, RealPage would be conducting their own verification, and you'd have to request an override to deviate from the recommended pricing. Do that too often and they'd kick you out of the scheme that got you the data in the first place.

What blows my mind is there are multiple people in this thread saying that that is perfectly moral, ethical and legal, and the people in the class action got lucky because this would have all fallen apart in the courtroom.

I know a mechanic through a friend that only works on cars of make A. I took my car of make B to someone down the street.

My mechanic friend heard about it, and gave me the following warning.

The mechanic I was working with had an application where you entered in symptoms (e.g. belt noise), and it would stack rank plausible-sounding repairs by profitability. (e.g., should you just replace the belt, should you replace the alternator, or replace the A/C compressor) It used the markup of the parts needed for each job, hours you can charge, actual hours worked, turnaround time (part lead time), etc.

I switched mechanics, and the maintenance cost of my car dropped 75%. It also was at least twice as reliable after that.

Apps like that (and the plumber one) should be illegal. Their only purpose is to defraud customers, so the developers + the customers should be facing jail time.