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We study a Bertrand oligopoly with asymmetric costs in which each seller has some “captive” buyers. In the limit as captive buyers vanish, the lowest-cost firm sells to all buyers at a price equal to the second-lowest marginal cost. However, the closest competing price arises from non-degenerate mixed strategies, firms play exclusively undominated strategies, and with positive probability all but one firm sets the monopoly price.