Legal analysis
The price of traded goods exceeds the market price by too much, which means that speculators intend to forcibly raise the price level by spreading rumors and inputting instructions at a price level slightly higher than the current price. Driving up prices is one of the means for speculators to make huge profits, which directly harms the interests of consumers and disrupts the socialist market order. This is illegal speculation. The legal basis for punishing price fraud is the relevant provisions in the Price Law. Commodity prices are determined according to local production and operation and residents' needs. Merchants are not allowed to change the price or drive up the price at will, otherwise the legal responsibility of the relevant personnel will be investigated. According to the relevant national regulations, the market price pricing should first be consistent with the actual value of the trademark. Secondly, the price should be consistent with most of the same trademarks in the market, and it should not be too high or too low to disturb the market order. And if you conceal the origin, original price and purchase method of the goods, it also belongs to market price fraud. Merchants or operators use illegal means to hoard goods, and then drive up prices, which has caused serious adverse effects on the entire market operating environment. Under specific circumstances, it can be dealt with according to law in combination with actual criminal facts. If the relevant information is not clear, you can consult the administrative department for industry and commerce.
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Provisions on administrative penalties for price violations
Article 7 Where an operator, in violation of Article 14 of the Price Law, uses false or misleading price means to trick consumers or other operators into trading with him, he shall be ordered to make corrections, his illegal income shall be confiscated, and he shall be fined not more than five times his illegal income; If there is no illegal income, a fine of 50,000 yuan to 500,000 yuan shall be imposed; If the circumstances are serious, it shall be ordered to suspend business for rectification, or its business license shall be revoked by the administrative department for industry and commerce.
Article 8 Where an operator, in violation of the provisions of Article 14 of the Price Law, sells, purchases goods or provides services by means of raising prices or lowering prices in disguised form, he shall be ordered to make corrections, his illegal income shall be confiscated and he shall be fined not more than five times his illegal income; There is no illegal income, a fine of 20 thousand yuan and 200 thousand yuan; If the circumstances are serious, it shall be ordered to suspend business for rectification, or its business license shall be revoked by the administrative department for industry and commerce.
Ninth operators do not implement the government guidance price and government pricing, and have one of the following acts, shall be ordered to make corrections, confiscate the illegal income, and impose a fine of less than 5 times the illegal income; If there is no illegal income, a fine of not less than 50,000 yuan but not more than 500,000 yuan shall be imposed; if the circumstances are serious, a fine of not less than 500,000 yuan but not more than 2 million yuan shall be imposed; If the circumstances are serious, it shall be ordered to suspend business for rectification: (1) setting a price that exceeds the floating range of government-guided prices; (two) higher or lower than the government pricing; (three) to set the price of goods or services within the scope of government guidance and government pricing without authorization; (four) the implementation of government guidance and government pricing in advance or later; (five) independent fees or self standard fees; (six) to increase the charging standard in disguised form by decomposing the charges, repeating the charges and expanding the charging scope; (seven) continue to collect fees that the government has explicitly cancelled; (eight) in violation of the provisions of the deposit, mortgage and other forms of disguised charges; (nine) compulsory or disguised compulsory services and charges; (ten) do not provide services and collect fees in accordance with the provisions; (eleven) other acts that do not implement government guidance prices and government pricing.