In message , Phil Richards
writes

Paul Terry wrote:

I don't think any shopkeeper is obliged to sell you anything if they
don't want to, are they?

Except they have a contract with TfL and I'm sure keeping old stocks back
to sell at a huge profit could backfire on the agent if TfL found out.

Erm ... We do live in a free market economy!

I think it is up to individual agents on how they wish to proceed. When
I asked mine, the opinion was expressed that much more profit had been
achieved by selling VERY large numbers of saver packs at the "old" price
in the last 6 weeks than could ever have been achieved by artificially
restricting sales until the new prices take effect in January. As she
said, if they didn't sell them, the rivals would ... so what is the
point of restricting sales until such time as the market is already
satiated?

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Paul Terry