Originally Posted by jhmattern In this case though, the original poster is from New York, and in the US there aren't any such laws against low prices. I'm not really sure about Canadian law, but that's interesting to know.

It's more to do with marketing. It's to prevent a company from advertising products lower than the competition. In fact, where I live, Goodlife Fitness is threatening legal action because a "local" community centre has lower prices for a similar service.

But again, it's local right? To get someone from India and Taiwan and Canada and Mexico and Greeland to all charge the same when lifestyles are completely different, is quite the task on it's own. It would be the same as trying to make all real estate across the glob the same cost... Can't happen without a global economy.

The biggest issue is that web designer can work literally from anywhere. Real estate tends to stay relatively fixed....